REPORT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDMAN. 



G. S. Templetox. 



Prof. J. F. Duggar, Director, 



Alabama Experiment Station, 

 Auburn, Alabama. 

 Sir: 



I respectfully submit the following report of experimental 

 work in the Animal Husbandry Department for the year 1916: 



The experimental work conducted at Auburn, Alabama, is 

 supported by the Hatch and Adams funds, appropriated by 

 Congress. The experimental work in Marengo, Mobile and 

 Dale counties is supported by the State appropriation pro- 

 vided by the Local Experiment Law. The experiments with 

 the various classes of live stock are as follows: 



Beef Cattle. 



The co-operative steer feeding experiments started at Allen- 

 ville, Marengo County, Alabama, two years ago were continued, 

 during the year. Forty-five steers are now on feed at Allen- 

 ville, divided into three lots and fed as follows: 



Lot 1 — Velvet beans and corn silage. 

 Lot 2 — Cottonseed meal and corn silage. 

 Lot 3 — Cottonseed meal and sorghum silage. 

 An experiment was conducted during the past summer with 

 the view of determining the relative carrying capacity of 

 some of the pasture grasses adapted to the lime lands of West 

 Alabama. The three grasses compared in this experiment were 

 Bermuda, Paspalum and Johnson grass. This experiment will 

 be repeated the coming summer. 



The breeding herd of 450 head of pure bred and grade 

 Herefords is now used in experiment. The herd is divided into 

 several lots with the view of testing the different methods of 

 wintering cattle of various ages, and determining the cost of 

 producing feeder steers. 



Dairy Cattle. 



The dairy cattle projects at Auburn, Alabama, under way 

 during the year were as follows: 



