10 BULLETIN 110, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
From the above statement it is seen that steers which cost 2J cents 
a pound in the fall and weighed 637 pounds each at that time had 
cost 3 cents per pound in the spring when they received range alone 
and no charge was made for the range. In other words, the loss in 
weight during the winter had increased their cost in the spring one- 
half a cent per pound. 
The steers of lot 2 were in fine condition in the spring, being heavier 
than When started in the experiment in the fall, but owing to the 
cost of the feed consumed then value had increased to $3.12} per 
hundred pounds, or 62^ cents per hundred pounds over the fall price. 
The winter work terminated March 9 and the steers were redivided 
into lots for the summer feeding work, and charged at their spring 
cost. It remains to be seen by the summer work whether it was 
more profitable to feed the cattle through the winter, thus bringing 
them through to pasture in good condition, or to permit them to run 
on range without feed and thereby lose about 100 pounds of flesh 
during the winter, bringing them to the grazing season in very poor 
but thrifty condition. This feature is fully discussed later. 
No losses from death are recorded here among the range cattle, 
but it is quite common to lose a steer occasionally during severe win- 
ters, when such a loss would probably not occur if the cattle were 
getting some feed. That phase of the subject is not considered here 
and is so variable that cattlemen will have to make such deductions 
as will suit their conditions. 
SUMMARY OF THE WINTER WORK. 
1. The steers which received range alone lost 106 pounds each in 
weight during the winter, and this loss in weight caused an increase 
in cost of one-half a cent per pound in the spring. No charge was 
made for the grazing during the winter. 
2. The steers of lot 2 made a gain of 43 pounds in weight during the 
91-day period. There was an average of 2.4 pounds of cottonseed 
meal and 8.9 pounds of hulls consumed per day by each steer in this 
lot at a cost of 5.8 cents, or $5.30 for the winter. 
3. The spring cost of the steers in lot 2 was S3.12J per hundred- 
weight, or an increase of 62J cents per hundredweight over the fail 
price. They were in good condition at the close of the test. 
4. The steers of lot 4, which were fed coarse damaged hay, lost 72 
pounds each in weight during the winter. 
SUMMARY OF THREE YEARS' WINTER WORK. 
For the sake of comparison a general summary of the three years' 
winter work is given below. There are some variations in the figures 
from year to year, due chiefly to the character of the winter and the 
