UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



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% BULLETIN No. 1042 



Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry 

 JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief 



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Washington, D. C. 



February 4, 1922 



EFFECT OF WINTER RATIONS ON PASTURE GAINS 



OF CALVES.^ 



Bv E. W. Sheets and R. H. Tuckwillek, Animal Husbandry Division.- 



I. WINTER RATIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON PASTURE 

 GAINS OF CALVES. 



11. THE COST OF RATIONS FOR WINTERING CALVES. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Outline of the experimental work — 1 



The region and its problems 2 



Objects and plan of the work 3 



Kind of calves used 3 



Feeds used 3 



Character of pasture 5 



Method of feeding and handling 



the calves 5 



I. Winter rations and their influence 



on pasture gains of calves 6 



Quantity of feed consumed 6 



Gains during winter 7 



Page. 



Winter rations and their influence 

 on pasture gains of calves — 

 Continued. 



Gains during summer 8 



Gains for winter and summer 8 



Diagrams of gains and losses 9 



Summary of feeding 11 



[. Cost of rations for wintering 



calves 11 



Cost per pound of gain — 13 



Summary of costs 15 



OUTLINE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL WORK. 



The work reported in this bulletin is part of a series of experi- 

 ments on beef-production problems in the Appalachian Mountain 

 region that have been in prpgress since December 22, 1914, in coop- 

 eration between the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture and the West Virginia Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, on the farm of David Tuckwiller, in 

 Greenbrier County, W. Va. This farm is located in the southeastern 

 part of the State in the blue-grass area. The results of this experi- 

 ment apply not only to West Virginia but also to the adjacent States 



1 A report of cooperative work by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, and the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. 



"The authors acknowledge the services of W. P. Ward and F. W. Farley, formerly of 

 the Animal Husbandry Division, who assisted in planning and carrying on the work. 

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