BULLETIN 1431, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 3. — Average total and daily gains per steer on pasture during the three 
summer periods 
Year and days on pasture 
Lot 
Initial 
weight, 
begin- 
ning of 
summer 
Final 
weight, 
end of 
summer 
Total 
gain 
Pounds 
Pounds 
Pounds 
446 
573 
127 
462 
581 
119 
502 
601 
99 
662 
898 
236 
655 
916 
261 
615 
900 
285 
940 
1,259 
319 
Daily 
gain 
1923 (236 days) 
1924 (241 days) 
1925 (141 
I 
II. 
III 
Ii= 
All combined 
Pounds 
0.54 
.50 
.42 
.98 
1.08 
1.18 
2.26 
Reference to Table 2 shows that during the first winter Lot I 
gained 58 pounds, Lot II 79 pounds, and Lot III 113 pounds. Dur- 
ing the following summer (Table 3), Lot I gained 127 pounds, Lot II 
119 pounds, and Lot III 99 pounds per steer. 
Fig. 3.— Three-year-old steers on arrival at Jersey City market, September, 1925, at close of experiment 
During the second winter Lot A gained 87 pounds, Lot B 79 
pounds, and Lot C 40 pounds. In the second summer Lot A gained 
236 pounds, Lot B 261 pounds, and Lot C 285 pounds. 
These data show that when the cattle are turned on grass in the 
summer (without additional feed) the lots which gain heavily during 
the previous winter do not gain so much in the following summer, 
and that the lots gaining least in winter make relatively large sum- 
mer gains. 
COMPARISONS OF WINTER RATIONS 
In order to make a more complete study of the effect of different 
winter rations from year to year on grass-fat steers ultimately pro- 
duced, Table 4 was prepared. 
