UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 762 
Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry 
JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief 
Washington, D. C. ▼ March 12, 1919 
A COMPARISON OF ROUGHAGES FOR FATTENING STEERS 
IN THE SOUTH. 
By W. F. Waed, Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, 
Dan T. Geay, Formerly Professor of Animal Industry, Alabama Poly- 
technic Institute, and E. It. Lloyd, Director of Mississippi Experiment 
Station. 1 
I. A Comparison of Cottonseed Hulls, Corn Silage, and a Combination of Cottonseed Hulls 
and Silage for Fattening Steers During a Short Feeding Period. (Alabama Experi- 
ment, 1913-14.) 
II. A Comparison of Cottonseed Hulls, Corn Silage, and a Combination of Cottonseed Hulls 
and Silage for Fattening Steers. (Mississippi Experiment, 1914-15.) 
III. A Comparison of Some Common Farm-Grown Roughages for Fattening Steers. (Experi- 
ment of 1915-16.) 
IV. A Comparison of Some Common Farm-Grown Roughages for Fattening Steers. (Experi- 
ment of 1916-17.) 
V. Summary and Conclusions of the Four Years' Work. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The investigations reported in this bulletin are a continuation of 
the cooperative work started in 1904 between the Bureau of Animal 
Industry and the Alabama State experiment station. Previous re- 
sults will be found in Bureau of Animal Industry Bulletins 103, 131, 
147, and 159, and Department of Agriculture Bulletins 73 and 110. 
The map (fig. 1) shows the general location of the farms in Ala- 
bama and Mississippi where the experiments were conducted and 
the location of the markets most convenient to the southern farmer 
and cattleman. The shaded area shows the portion of the South to 
which the results of this feeding work are directly applicable. In 
this area the climatic conditions, pasture grasses, and forage crops 
are very similar to those of western Alabama and central Mississippi. 
Since such a large portion of the South has eradicated the cattle 
tick, there has been quite a change in the movement of cattle to mar- 
ket. Formerly most of the cattle from Alabama and Mississippi 
were marketed at New Orleans and Mobile. Now practically all 
1 Acknowledgment is due G. A. Scott and S. W. Greene, of the Animal Husbandry 
Division, United States Department of Agriculture, for assistance in compiling this 
bulletin. 
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