2 BULLETIN 110, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



eastern Tennessee, and Virginia are usually shipped to Richmond, 

 Washington, Baltimore, or Jersey City to be slaughtered. While 

 there are no large markets, except Fort Worth, located in the South, 

 it is possible for many of the cattlemen to ship their cattle to one of 

 the better markets. It is also probable that with the development 

 of the live stock industry of the South the southern markets will grow, 

 and transportation facilities, which are poor at the present time, may 

 increase in efficiency. If it were possible to get as good train service 

 for cattle in the South as it is in the West, there is no portion of the 



Fig. 1. — The shaded, area represents the portion of the United States to which the results secured in the 

 Alabama feeding experiments are applicable. The dark circle in Alabama shows the approximate 

 location of the test farm. The location of the various cattle markets to which southern cattle are 

 shipped are shown. 



South from which cattle could not be shipped with relative ease to 

 a good market. 



Of the various problems which arise concerning the care of cattle 

 on the farm, one of the most frequent deals with the methods of carry- 

 ing the stock cattle through the whiter. As a rule the growing of 

 cattle through the grazing season gives little trouble, but the farmer 

 is often puzzled as to the method to follow in wintering the stock. 

 This is especially true during years when not enough roughage has 

 been harvested to feed all the cattle. At times good steers have 



