■it 



40 



Amount op Winter Feeds Used. 



During the winter of 1907-'08 a comparson was made 

 between feeding on the range alone and the same range when 

 supplemented in one lot with a part ration of cottonseed 

 meal and hulls, and in a third lot with a good quality of 

 cow pea hay. The following winter (1908-'09) the same 

 comparison was again made as regards Lots 1 and 2, while 

 in a third lot cottonseed was used and in a fourth lot some 

 damaged mixed hay was used to supplement the range. 



Table 2. Feeds used Winter 1907-'08— (84 days). 



RATION 



Total amount 

 consumed per 

 steer 



Daily amount 

 feed consum- 

 ed per steer 



c 



u V 



j: 

 u « 



a 



a: 



c 

 5 « 



u 



at V 



3 M 

 n 



26 

 29 



24 



Ransfe alone •. 



Rang'P plus half ration cotton- 

 seed m^-al and hulls 



j Rantfe plus half ration cow 

 { pea hay 



Lbs. 



No e 



8.5 

 8.5 



Feeds used Winter 1908-'09— (98 days). 



Range alone. 



j Range plus half ration cotton- 

 I seed meal and hulls 



Range plus half ration cotton- 

 seed 



Range plus mixed ha}' 



None 

 8.71 



11.8 



*This lot was fed only 70 days — January 1st to March 12th. 



There was no way to determine how much feed was 

 secured from the range as far as pounds were concerned. 

 Each steer had ten. acres as winter range. The steers in 

 Lot 1, the rangB lot, had to be turned out upon the general 

 range each winter about a month before the end of the test, 

 as their range of ten acres each had become exhausted 



