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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 628 
Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry 
A. D. MELVIN, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
January 28, 1918 
WINTERING AND FATTENING BEEF 
CATTLE IN NORTH CAROLINA 
By 
W. F. WARD 
Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal Industry 
AND 
R. S. CURTIS and F. T. PEDEN 
Of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 
CONTENTS 
Introduction 1 
Wintering Steers Preparatory to Grazing 
on Pasture ^4 
Winter Grazing of Steers 14 
Page 
Summer Fattening of Steers on Grass . 19 
Summary of Three Years' Work, Winter 27 
and Summer 27 
Winter Fattening of Steers 38 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1918 
