DETAILS OF THE TEST. 

 Object of the Work. 



The primary object of this work was to learn what it 

 would cost to raise a grade steer to the feed-lot period, 

 under average Southern conditions. After this was deter- 

 mined, it was expected that suggestions could be made and 

 plans offered by which beef animals* could, in the future, 

 be produced more cheaply than were the ones in this test. 



In order to obtain definite information regarding beef 



General view of cattle used in experiment. 



production in the South, which would enable them to 

 logically outline work for the future, the Alabama Experi- 

 ment Station, and the Bureau of Animal Industry of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, jointly undertook 

 a co-operative experiment with a large stock farmer in the 

 Tennessee vallev. 



Cattle Used. 



The animals used in the work were a herd of grade Aber- 

 deen-Angus cows, headed by two pure-bred Aberdeen-Ang-us 



