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with each other, they are not in any waiyeomparabre wife 

 the results secured in Lots X and Y. These are t;wo sep- 

 arate experiments and are not comparable in mij way. 



PASTURES. 



The soil upon which these steers grazed was ©f a saoi- 

 dy and sandy loam character, such as is found iin a cu-t- 

 over pine district. A large proportion of the pastures 

 was low so that in rainy weather they beeame- exceed- 

 ingly wet. There was some sandy ridge land,, however, 

 in each pasture. 



Carpet grass, lespedeza, broom sedge aadl a small 

 amount of bermuda and Paspalum Dilatatum eoiistiitu- 

 ted the plants that formed the pastures. They afforded 

 an abundance of grass throughout the grazing season, 

 but the growth was rank and very watery^ as the fre- 

 quent rains kept the pasture exceedingly wet during tlio 

 whole test. Sweet clover (Melilotus) does not grow in 

 this region. No expense or time had ever been expended 

 on these pastures except to build a wire fence around 

 them. The plants mentioned above had come voluntar- 

 ily after the pine woods were cleared away. 



WINTER RANGE 



The steers of Lots X and Y, after being dehorned and 

 tagged, were turned out December 6, 1909, in a tract of 

 cut-over pine lands. Approximately 20,000 acres of land 

 were in this tract, but it was not fenced, so the steers had 

 the privilege of going practically anywhere in the south- 

 ern part of Sumter County. This land had grown up 

 during the previous summer with broom sedge, lesped- 

 eza and other native grasses. When frost came the 

 grasses were, of course, all killed, but still they afforded 

 some grazing for the steers during the first part of th'> 

 winter. During the latter part of the \^'inter, when 

 grazing is usually short, no little amount of Augusta 

 vetch came up and furnished good grazing during the 

 early spring months. This plant, more than anything 



