UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 628 



Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry 



A. D. MELVIN, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



January 28, 1918 



WINTERING AND FATTENING BEEF 

 CATTLE IN NORTH CAROLINA 



By 



W. F. WARD 



Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal Industry 



AND 



R. S. CURTIS and F. T. PEDEN 



Of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 1 



Wintering Steers Preparatory to Grazing 



on Pasture 4 



Winter Grazing of Steers ...... 14 



Page 

 Summer Fattening of Steers on Grass . 19 

 Summary of Three Years' Work, Winter 27 



and Summer 27 



Winter Fattening of Steers . ..... 38 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1918 



