UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
I BULLETIN No. 631 
Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry 
JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
April 19, 1918 
FIVE YEARS' CALF-FEEDING WORK IN ALABAMA 
AND MISSISSIPPI. 1 
By W. F. Ward and S. S. Jeedan. 
Of the Animal Husbandry Division. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
II. 
Winter fattening of calves in 
Alabama on cottonseed meal, 
cottonseed hulls, corn-and- 
cob meal, and alfalfa hay, 
1911-12 
Fattening calves in Alabama on 
cottonseed meal, cottonseed 
hulls, corn chop, and corn 
silage, 1912-13 
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Page. 
III. Fattening calves in Mississippi 
on cottonseed meal, corn, cot- 
tonseed hulls, corn silage, 
and alfalfa hay, 1914-15 
IV. Fattening calves in Mississippi 
on cottonseed meal, corn, 
corn silage, and alfalfa, 
1915-16 
V. Fattening late (short-aged) 
calves for market 
VI. General discussion of five 
years' experiments 
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I. WINTER FATTENING OF CALVES ON COTTONSEED 
MEAL, COTTONSEED HULLS, CORN-AND-COB MEAL, AND 
ALFALFA HAY. 
PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS. 
During the winter of 1910-11 (November 17 to March 17) this 
bureau, working in cooperation with the Alabama Experiment Sta- 
tion, carried on an experiment in fattening calves on various rations. 
These results are published in Bulletin 147 of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry and in Bulletin 158 of the Alabama Experiment Station. 
The first lot of calves was fattened on a ration of cottonseed meal, 
hulls, and alfalfa hay. The second lot was given a one-third ration 
of corn-and-cob meal in conjunction with the cottonseed meal, hulls, 
and hay. The third lot was given a liberal allowance of corn-and-cob 
meal and a rather small allowance of cottonseed meal, the corn-and- 
cob meal constituting two-thirds of the concentrated part of the 
ration. As the work reported in the present bulletin is really a dupli- 
1 This work was done in cooperation with the Alabama Experiment Station, J. F. 
Duggar, director, and the Mississippi Experiment Station, E. R. Lloyd, director. G. A. 
Scott, of the Animal Husbandry Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture, assisted in 
preparing computations. 
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