FEEDING BEEF CATTLE IN MISSISSIPPI. 5 



Mr. Abbott and Mr. Frye both estimated the cost of raising their 

 cattle at two cents per pound. 



They had been kept on pasture during practically the whole of 

 the time and had never been stable fed and were given very little extra 

 feed during the winter. 



As originally planned, the twenty-five steers were to be divided 

 into five lots of five steers each. Lots Nos. 1, 2 and 3 to be fed in the 

 stable, lot No. 4 in a yard with a small open shed for shelter, and lot 

 No. 5 in an open yard without shelter. 



Lot No. 1 to be fed on the mixed ration of corn, bran, hay, hulls 

 and cottonseed meal. Lot No. 2 to be fed on cottonseed meal and 

 hulls, and lot No. 3, of poor scrub character, to be fed the same as lot 

 No. 1. 



LOT II. 



When the experiment was started it was found that twenty two 

 of the cattle were too good to class any of them as scrubs, so lot No. 

 3 was made up of three steers. A typical poor feeder, a grade Jersey, 

 and a young steer got by a Short-horn bull and one of the Station 

 grade dairy cows. 



