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consisted of lespedeza, l)room sage, crab grass, swamp 

 grasses, and switch cane. This is strictly an unimprov- 

 ed pasture, no seed of any kind having been sown in it. 

 It is probably an average native or unimproved pasture 

 on sandy land. Most of it is made up of old fields, some 

 that have been uncultivated for many years, and other 

 areas recently thrown out of cultivation. The soil would 

 rank as poor sandy land, worth, perhaps, if in cultiva- 

 tion, |3 to |6 per acre. 



Relative gaws dm'ing fhc past lira ge season in grazing 

 scruh cattle of different ages. 



By averaging the results for the different years, it was 

 found that during the portion of the pasturage season 

 covered by our weighings the daily gain made by the dif- 

 ferent classes of stock for periods of 138, 183, and 236 

 days (these being the respective intervals between 

 weighings during the three years, were as follows : 



T)aily gains made hy scruh cattle on native pasturage 



alone. 



9 cows averaged per day 28 lb. 



14 heifers (300 lbs. and above) averaged 82 lb. 



7 yearlings, male and female, averaged 49 lb. 



4 sucking calves averaged 67 lb. 



13 steers and bulls (above 300 lbs.) average. . .71 lb. 



It was impracticable to make weighings early enough 

 in the spring and late enough in the fall to include the 

 entire pasturage season. However, we are confident 

 that the period during which cattle made average gains 

 was at least seven (7) months, or from April 15th to No- 

 vember 15th. Hence, in order .to make the results 

 clearer we have calculated from the figures above the 

 gains for a pasturage season of 210 days and the results 

 are gi^ en below : 



