20 BULLETIN" 110;, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



In 1910 it cost from $1.10 in lot A to $4.37 in lot G to make 100 

 pounds of increase in live weight; in lot B, where cake and pasture 

 were fed, each 100 pounds of increase in weight cost $3.19. It is 

 shown again, therefore, that cake with alfalfa hay was not as efficient 

 and economical as cake alone. When cake alone was fed along with 

 the pasture only 176 pounds were required to produce an increase 

 in weight of 100 pounds, but when alfalfa hay and cake were both fed 

 it required 187 pounds of cake and 122 pounds of hay to produce the 

 same increase in weight. 



During the summer of 1911, 229 pounds of cottonseed cake were 

 required to make 100 pounds of gain. When the cost of both the 

 pasture and the cake was charged against the gains it cost $1.02 and 

 $4.03 to make 100 pounds of increase in weight in lots A and B, 

 respectively. 



PRICES REALIZED FOR PASTURE AND COTTONSEED CAKE WHEN FED 



TO THE CATTLE. 



The statement below illustrates the fact that southern pastures 

 may be put to profitable use by means of beef cattle, and adds fur- 

 ther evidence to the assertion that the farmer can usually well afford 

 to buy certain outside feeds — those not grown upon the farm — and 

 feed them to his cattle. It will be observed that lot G is not included 

 in the statement. This lot received some hay in addition to the cake, 

 but as the hay was only a partial ration the results in this case would 

 be inconclusive. With the price of pasture fixed at 50 cents a month 

 per steer and cottonseed cake at $26 a ton, the following prices were 

 realized as a result of feeding to the cattle: 



Cottonseed cake, lot B: 



1910 per ton. . $69. 37 



1911 do 50. 94 



Pasture: 



Lot A, 1910 for season . . S. 95 



LotB, 1910 do.... 11.02 



Lot A, 1911 do ... . 7. 80 



Lot B, 1911 do 8. 81 



It is seen that the cottonseed cake, which cost $26 a ton, was fed 

 to the steers and sold by means of them for $50.94 and $69.37 a ton. 

 Regarding the pasture, there are thousands of acres in the South, 

 and good ones, too, that lie idle all the year. If these idle areas were 

 set to pasture and grazed by live stock excellent profits could be 

 realized. In 1910 the grazing proved to be worth from $8.95 to 

 $11.02 for each steer. In 1911 the pasture was worth for each steer, 

 $7.80 in lot A and $8.81 in lot B. It would not have been possible 

 to have made these profits had the pastures not been established. 



