CONTENTS. 



PACK 



Cattle Feeding in the South 29 



Cattle Feeding in Florida 29 



Need of More Beef and Better Cattle 29 



Improved Blood Increases Meat Yield 30 



Orading I'p Not Difficult 30 



Feeding Experiment 30 



1 fo\v the Experiment Was Conducted 31 



The Feeds Which AYere Compared 31 



Results of the Experiment 34 



Financial Results . 35 



IMPORTANT FACTS. 



1 . Florida farmers can produce good beef with Florida-grown feeds. 



'i. Beef can be produced practically as cheaply in Florida as elsewhere. 



:>. The feeding period required to fatten cattle in Florida is shorter 

 than in the Northern States. 



f. The average daily gain that may be obtained in Florida by proper 

 methods of feeding is larger than the Northern feeder can expect. 



5. A combination of corn, velvet beans in the pod, and some rough- 

 age (such as cottonseed hulls, crab-grass hay, or sorghum hay), 

 with a nutritive ratio of '1 :<> or 1 :7, will give best results. 

 I I>y nutritive ratio is meant the ratio between digestible protein and 

 carbohydrates ; thus, a feed containing one pound of digestible 

 protein to six pounds of digestible carbohydrates would have a 

 nut ritive ratio of 1 :(>. ) 



0. To make- cattle- feeding profitable we must use well-bred bulls of 



