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fattened during the summer months while the pastures are 

 available. Since the co-operative beef work between the 

 Alabama Experiment Station and the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry' began, some results have been published relative 

 to winter fattening.** The present bulletin presents the 

 results of two years' work in fattening cattle upon pasture 

 during the summer months and selling the cattle at the 

 end of the summer. It should be understood that this bul- 

 letin is only a report of the progress of the work, as the 

 experiments are being continued. 



DETAILS OF THE EXPERIMENTS. 



Plan of the Work. 



The cattle were bought in the fall, on account of the fact 

 that they could be bought much cheaper in the fall than in 

 the spring. In fact, they could hardly be bought at all in 

 the spring. But they were not to be fattened until the fol- 

 lowing summer, so it became necessary to make a study 

 of the cheapest and best methods of getting these mature 

 steers through the winter months. So the work was divided 

 into: 



1. A study of methods of wintering mature steers, 



2. Fattening these steers on pasture the following sum- 

 mer. 



The cattle used in the winter's work were continued into 

 the following summer's work. 



Cattle Used. 



The various pictures will show the kind of cattle whicb 

 were used in these tests. Grade Aberdeen-Angus, Shorthorn, 

 Hereford, and Red Polled were used. Many of them had 

 a predominance of Jersey and scrub breeding. They were 

 all bought of farmers in Sumter, Wilcox, Marengo, and 

 neighboring counties, so they represented tho average cattle 

 of the western part of Alabama. They varied from two to 

 four years in age. As will be seen later, the average weight 

 at the beginning of the fall work was about 750 pounds each., 



**See BnrePii of Animal Industry Bulletin No. 103. 



