I. WINTERING STEERS PREPARATORY TO SUMMER FATTEN- 
ING ON PASTURE. 
This is the third in the series of experiments to determine the most 
profitable methods of wintering mature steers in the South, which 
were to be fattened on pasture the following summer, and to study 
the effects of the various methods of wintering on the rapidity of the 
gains made by the steers during the subsequent summer fattening. 
The results secured in the two previous years have been reported in 
former bulletins. 1 The results of the work during the third winter 
(1909-1910) are given herewith. 
PLAN OF THE WORK. 
The same general plan that had been followed during the two pre- 
vious years was adhered to. The cattle were bought in the fall and 
held in the pasture until the grass was exhausted. They were then 
turned into the cornfields and allowed to remain until the work was 
started on December 8, 1909. The tests were made on the farm of 
Mr. O. E. Cobb, of Sumter County, Ala., and were under the direct 
supervision of Mr. H. J. Chatterton, who was stationed upon the 
farm and devoted his entire time to the work. 
At the close of the winter work the steers were redivided into 
groups and used in the summer fattening work. 
CATTLE USED. 
The steers used in these tests were 2 and 3 year old grades of the 
Hereford, Shorthorn, Aberdeen-Angus, and Red Polled breeds. They 
were poorer in quality and smaller in size than the steers which had 
been used in the two previous tests. Many of them were only half 
bred, while some even carried a predominance of scrub blood. They 
would have classed as common to fair stockers on the market. They 
were bought principally of neighboring farmers in western Alabama. 
All were cattle which had been infested with, the cattle tick ever since 
they were calves. 
CHARACTER OF THE WINTER RANGE AND PRICES OF THE FEEDS USED. 
The cattle were kept in inclosed fields which had been used for 
growing cotton and corn. The range consisted of the above-men- 
tioned fields and some waste land upon which had grown the native 
iSee Bureau of Animal Industry Bulletins 131 and 159. 
