BULLETIN Til, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
together with other experiments in wintering and dry-lot feeding 
of beef cattle, have been published. 1 
This bulletin is confined to reports of four summers' feeding — two 
in Alabama in 1912 and 1913 and two in Mississippi in 1915 and 
1916. Each year's test is reported separately. 
Fig. ' 1. — The shaded area represents the portion of the Southern States to which 
the results obtained in the feeding experiment are applicable. The unshaded 
portions within the shaded area represent coastal plain and piney-wood sections 
where soil and pasture conditions are different from those applicable to the 
experiment. The circles in Alabama and Mississippi show the approximate loca- 
tions of the test farms. The locations of the various cattle markets to which 
southern cattle are shipped is also shown. 
All tests were carried out under actual and typical farm condi- 
tions ; consequently the results may be applied directly to the manage- 
ment and feeding of cattle on pasture in southern regions where 
climatic conditions and pasture grasses are similar to those of 
Sumter County, Ala., and Clay and Madison Counties, Miss., which 
will be described. 
The experiments of 1912 and 1913 were conducted on the farm of 
(). K ' <>bb. Sumterville, Sumter County, Ala., where several years' 
experimental WTJrfc wit] beef cattle already had been done. The 
cattle, feed, and pastures were furnished by Mr. Cobb. The bureau 
employed S. S. Jordan to have direct charge of the management and 
feeding and to keep records of the work. 
1 See Bureau of Animal Industry Bulletins 103, 147, and 159, and Department of Agri- 
culture Bulletins 73, 110, 761, and 762. 
