12 BULLETIN 110, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



for the three years was 2.38 pounds of cotton seed meal and 8.7 pounds 

 of hulls per day. This amount, in addition to the range, proved to 

 be enough to make 700-pound steers hold their fall weight throughout 

 the winter. 



Cowpea hay was fed but one winter, and steers which received 8 J 

 pounds each per day weighed practically the same in the spring as in 

 the fall. It is seen that 8 \ pounds of bright cowpea hay proved equal 

 to 8 \ pounds of hulls and 2.35 pounds of cottonseed meal for wintering 

 steers. 



The cost per 100 pounds of cattle in the spring is secured by adding 

 the cost of feeds consumed in the winter to the fall cost of the steers 

 and dividing this total cost by the spring weight. 



When no charge is made for the use of the winter range it was found 

 that the average cost of wintering the steers, or in other words, the 

 difference between the cost price in the fall and the cost price in the 

 spring, for the range steers was 45 cents per hundredweight, while it 

 was 69 cents for cattle given meal and hulls, 53 cents for those 

 receiving cowpea hay, 53 cents for the steers fed damaged hay, and 

 64 cents for the steers that were given cotton seed to supplement the 

 range. 



The cost of the feeds were such that, to break even on the winter 

 feeding, the cattle fed meal and hulls would have to be worth 25 

 cents per hundredweight more than the range cattle, while the cattle 

 fed cowpea hay and those given damaged hay would have to sell for 

 8 cents per hundredweight more than the range stock. 



