BULLETIN OF THE 



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No. 110 



Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry, A. D. Melvin, Chief. I 

 August 8, 1914. 



FATTENING CATTLE IN ALABAMA. 



By Dan T. Gray, Formerly Professor of Animal Industry, Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute, and W. F. Ward, Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal Industry. 



I. Wintering Steers Preparatory to Summer Fattening on Pasture. 

 II. Fattening Steers on Pasture in Alabama. 

 III. The Influence of Winter Feeding upon Gains Made the Following Summer. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The investigations reported in the following pages are a continu- 

 ation of the cooperative work started in 1904 between the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry and the Alabama Experiment Station. Previous 

 results will be found recorded in Bureau of Animal Industry Bulle- 

 tins 103, 131, 147, and 159, and Department of Agriculture Bulletin 73. 



The map (fig. 1) shows the general location of the farms in Ala- 

 bama where the experiments were conducted, also the principal mar- 

 kets which are accessible to cattlemen from various sections of the 

 South. The shaded lines indicate the area where the climatic con- 

 ditions and the pasture grasses are relatively similar to those of 

 western Alabama. This shaded portion represents the area to which 

 the results of the experiments outlined in Parts I and III of this 

 bulletin are applicable. 



The cattle from Texas, northern Louisiana, Arkansas, western Mis- 

 sissippi, and Tennessee usually go to the Fort Worth, St. Louis, or 

 Kansas City market. Those of eastern Mississippi and Alabama may 

 be sent to either the St. Louis or the New Orleans market; the cattle 

 of southern portions of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida 

 are usually sent to the New Orleans market, or to Tampa, Fla., for 

 export to Cuba; while the cattle of the Carolinas, northern Georgia, 



Note. — This bulletin is a report of progress on experiments begun in 1904 in cooperation with the Ala- 

 bama Agricultural Experiment Station and reported in B. A. I. Bulletins Nos. 103, 131, 147, and 159, and 

 department Bulletin No. 73, and gives the results of work done during the last and two preceding years. 

 It is applicable to those portions of the South where the climatic conditions and pasture grasses are similar 

 to those in, that section of the State where the tests were made. 



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