WINTERING YEARLING CATTLE 



By H. J. WATERS, Director 



SUMMARY OF RESULTS 



In this bulletin are reported the results of seven years' 

 work in wintering high grade yearling cattle on different 

 forage crops and on different grain rations. The effect of 

 these rations upon the gain in the winter and in a few cases 

 upon the capacity of the animals to make gains at grass 

 the following summer has been carefully studied. 



Credit should be given to Chas. M. Conner, B. S., Pro- 

 fessor of Agriculture, North Carolina Agricultural College; 

 D. W. May, M. S., Director of the United States Govern- 

 ment Experiment Station, Porto Rico; Thos. I. Mairs, M. 

 S., Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry, Pennsylvania 

 State College; and Claude L. Willoughby, B. S., Animal 

 Husbandman, Georgia Experiment Station, who at different 

 times had charge of the details of the experiments here 

 reported. 



These experiments were begun in the winter of 1895-6, 

 and have embraced four years of comparisons of the feeding 

 value of various forage crops when used without grain, and 

 four years of work when a limited^ amount of grain, chiefly 

 corn, was added to the various sorts of coarse fodders under 

 test. 



In the experiments without grain, the following rough- 

 nesses have been compared: 



1. Timothy Hay; 



2. Whole Corn Stover; 



3. Shredded Corn Stover; 



4. Siloed Corn Stover; 



5. Clover Hay; 



6. Cowpea Hay; 



7. A Combination of Whole Corn Stover and Clover 



Hay. 



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