BEEP CATTLE IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
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Table 4. — Cost of wintering; fall and spring prices. 
1913-14. 
Lot 
No. 
Number 
Number 
of 
of days 
steers. 
wintered. 
25 
128 
25 
128 
35 
123 
17 
112 
Ration. 
Fall 
cost 
per 
cwt. 
Cost to 
feed each 
steer 
through 
winter. 
Spring 
cost 
per 
cwt. 
Ear corn, corn stover , and hay 
Corn silage , corn stover, and hay 
do 
Pasture 
1914-15. 
Ear corn, corn stover , hay , and straw. .. 
Corn silage, corn stover, hay, and straw . 
do 
Pasture 
1915-16. 
$5.50 
5.50 
5.00 
4.50 
$10. 10 
6.97 
$7.07 
7.17 
6.73' 
5.23 
24 
131 
24 
131 
31 
131 
26 
131 
$6.00 
$12. 20 
6.00 
7.58 
6.00 
7.45 
6.00 
6.29 
$7.96 
7.30 
7.43 
6.70 
1 
24 
24 
33 
16 
119 
119 
119 
119 
$6.00 
6.00 
6.00 
6.00 
$11.08 
6.78 
6.78 
5.23 
$7.69 
?, 
7.22 
3 
.. .do 
7.25 
4 
6.60 
Feeds were charged for the three years at the following average 
prices : 
Ear corn : $0. 83 per bushel. 
Cottonseed cake 30. 00 per ton. 
Corn silage : 3. 00 per ton. 
Hay 15. 00 per ton. - 
Corn stover and hay 10. 00 per ton. 
Corn stover, hay, and straw 10. 00 per ton. 
Pasture . ._. 1. 00 per head per 28-day period. 
In 1913-14 the cattle in Lot 1 cost $5.50 per hundredweight in the 
fall. It cost $10.10 per steer to winter on ear corn, corn stover, and 
hay, making the cattle cost $7.07 per hundredweight in the spring. 
The silage cattle in Lot 2 cost $5.50 per hundredweight in the fall 
and it cost $6.97 per steer to winter them, or $3.13 per steer less than 
Lot 1, but the cattle in Lot 2 lost heavily during the winter. The 
cost per hundredweight for Lot 2 in the spring was $7.17, or 10 cents 
per hundredweight more than those in Lot 1. The cattle in Lot 3, 
wintered on the same kind of feeds as those in Lot 2, cost $6.06 per 
steer to winter, the cost in the spring being $6.73 per hundredweight. 
The initial cost of these cattle was 50 cents per hundredweight less 
than those in Lots 1 and 2, as they were lighter cattle. There was 
very little difference in the spring prices per hundredweight in the 
cattle in Lots 2 and 3. 
The winter-grazed cattle (Lot 4) made a gain during the winter, 
while all the cattle in the barns lost weight. It cost $1.66 to winter 
