BULLETIN 870, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Table 1. — Plan of the four years' work. 
Lot 
N0.1 
Season. 
Steers, 
in lot. 
Winter feed.2 
Summer 
feed.3 
Lots 1.. 
1914-15 
1915-16 
1916-17 
1914-15 
1915-16 
1916-17 
1917-18 
1914-15 
1915-16 
1916-17 
1917-1 S 
1917-18 
1017-18 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
do 
Do 
do.l 
Do. 
Lots 2.. 
Corn silage, wheat straw, and cottonseed meal 
Do. 
do 
Do. 
do 
Do 
do 
Do. 
Lots 3. 
Do 
do 
Do. 
do 
Do. 
do 
Do. 
Lot 4.. 
Corn silage and soy-bean hay 
Do. 
Lot 5.. 
Corn silage, rye ha v, and cottonseed me; 1 
Do. 
1 New lots of steers were used each year, totaling as follows: 1914, 30 steers; 1915, 39 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 j 
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, 1917-18, 
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. 
