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Moreover, in the season of 1903, when rains were so 

 favorably distributed for the growth of pasture grasses 

 the steers were not able to consume the entire growth . 

 We estimated that there was food enough for two more 

 similar steers. For three weeks in November this* pas- 

 ture snppoi'ted seventeen two-jear-old steers, without 

 other food. 



The average daily gain per head for the three yearling 

 steers with beef blood on pasturage alone was 1.43 lbs. 

 and the average gain for the pasturage season was 307 

 lbs. per head. 



Gains Made by Scrub Cattle on Pastures. 



Conditions of the experiment. — It seemed a matter of 

 importance to study the gains made by scrub cattle 

 (unimproved natives) during the grazing season. Hence 

 \n the spring of 1001, an experiment was begun in co- 

 operation with a farmer living in Macon county, Ala- 

 bama, who every year pastures a large number of cattle 

 of scrub or Jersey blood. One of the principal objects in 

 view was to ascertain Avliat class of animals, or rather 

 animals of what age, made the most rapid gains, or 

 brought the most profit to the dealer or stockman pastur- 

 ing cattle. 



The Station furnished the scales and its representative 

 weighed the cattle several times each year. The pasture 

 is so large and the cattle so wild and the stock so fre- 

 quently changed by sales and new purchases that only 

 for a few of the several hundred animals weighed are the 

 records in any sense complete. However, by combining 

 the results for the three years, we obtained averages 

 which are believed to have some suggestive value. The 

 pasture on which these cattle grazed consisted of old 

 fields and swampy thickets with a small amount of 

 switch cane. The principal growth relished by cattle 



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