BULLETIN" 870, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 Table 1. — Plan of the four years' work. ' 



Lot 

 No.i 



Season. 



Steers. 

 in lot. 



"Winter feed.2 



Summer 



Lotsl.. 



Lots 2.. 



Lots 3.. 



Lot 4.. 



Lot 5.. 



1014-15 

 1915-16 

 1916-17 



1914-15 

 1915-16 

 1916-17 

 1917-1S 



1914-15 

 191.5-16 

 1916-17 

 191 7-] S 



1917-18 



1017-13 



Corn silage, mixed hay, and wheat straw. 



do 



do 



Corn silage, wheat straw, and cottonseed meal. 



do 



do 



do : 



Mixed hay and wheat straw. 



do 



do , 



do 



Corn silage and soy-bean hay 



Corn silage, rye hay, and cottonseed meo.l. 



Pasture. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. ' 

 Do. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



1 New lots of steers were used each year, totaling as follows: 1914, 30 steers; 1915, 30 steers; 1916, 30 steers; 

 1917, 40 steers. 



2 From time cattle were taken off pasture in December until turned on pasture, about May 1. 



3 From time cattle went on grass in spring until sold . Each summer all the steers were turned into the 

 same pasture and had no feed except the grass. 



KIND OF STEERS USED. 



The steers used in this work were of grade Shorthorn, Hereford, 

 and Aberdeen-Angus breeding. They were raised in southern West 

 Virginia and were a good, uniform lot of cattle in age, weight, quality, 

 and condition. They averaged from 650 to 675 pounds in weight 



Fig. 3. — Steers in Lot 1 at end of winter feeding, 1917-1S. 



at the beginning of the winter period and were 1 year old the previous 

 spring. 



FEEDS USED. 



Samples of each of the feeds used were taken at different times 

 throughout the four winter feeding periods and sent to the De- 

 partment of Chemistry, West Virginia Experiment Station, Morgan- 

 town, W. Va., and there analyzed, with the results shown in Table 2. 





