UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
In Cooperation with the 
Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station 
DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1318 
/ Washington, D. C- 
April, 1925 
STEER FEEDING IN THE SUGAR-CANE BELT 
By J. R. Quesenberry, Livestock Specialist in Charge, Iberia Livestock Farm, 
Jeanerettc, La, 
CONTENTS 
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Location of the experiments 1 
Characteristics of the district 2 
Object of the experiments 3 
Cattle used in experiments '■) 
Method of feeding 4 
Feeds used 4 
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Shelter and lots 8 
Weight records 8 
Quantities of feed consumed 8 
Weights and gains 10 
Financial results 11 
Conclusions 13 
LOCATION OF THE EXPERIMENTS 
The work reported in this bulletin is part of a series of livestock 
experiments in the sugar-cane belt of the United States during four 
winter seasons from 1915 to 1919. The work was done cooperatively 
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Fig. 1. — Silos and beef-cattle barns on the Iberia stock farm. Jeanerette, La. 
by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department 
of Agriculture and the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, 
on a farm of 1,000 acres (fig. 1). known as the Iberia Livestock 
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