4 BULLETIN 1024, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
year the cows, which were bred to calve in the spring or early sum- 
mer, were bought in the surrounding section. While most of the 
cows had been bred to purebred bulls, a few had been bred to high- 
grade bulls. During the following years as many as possible of 
Fic. 2.—Character of the land and pasture. 
these cows were bred during the summer to a purebred bull. As 
some of them failed to get with calf early enough to provide a uni- 
form lot of calves, other cows and heifers were used to replace them. 
FEEDS USED. 
Samples of the feeds were taken at different times during the win- 
ter periods and sent to the Department of Chemistry, West Virginia 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Morgantown, W. Va., to be ana- 
Fig. 3.—Lot 1. Cows fed corn silage, mixed hay, and wheat straw, at the end of the 
winter period, Apr. 25, 1919. 
lyzed. The averages of these analyses are shown in Table 2, in 
heavy type, while the average analyses for several thousand sam- 
ples, as computed by the United States Department of Agriculture, 
are shown in ordinary type. 
