FATTENING CATTLE IN ALABAMA. 
11 
prevailing climatic conditions. The averages of the three years' work 
are also included in the table: 
Table 4. — Summary of three years 1 winter feeding . 
Lotl. 
Range 
alone. 
Lot 2. 
Range plus 
cottonseed 
meal and 
cottonseed 
hulls. 
Lot 3. Lot 4. 
Range plus Range plus 
cowpea damaged 
hay. hay. 
1 
Lot 5. 
Range plus 
cotton seed. 
Average weight per steer in the fall: 
1907 8 
Pounds. 
722 
705 
637 
Pounds. 
725 
705 
633 
Pounds. 
724 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
1908-9 
689 
651 
706 
1909 10 
688 
- 97 
-106 
-106 
- 6 
+ 3 
+43 
724 680 
706 
Gain in weight per steer during the winter: 
1907-8 
-9 
1908-9 
-40 
-72 
-40 
1909-10 
-101 
None. 
None. 
None. 
+ 8 
(2. 35 meal. 
\8. 50 hulls. 
/ 2. 41 meal. 
\ 8. 71 hulls. 
)2. 39 meal. 
\8. 90 hulls. 
-9 
\8.50 cow- 
/ pea hay. 
-64 
-40 
Feed consumed per steer per day: 
1907-8 
Ul. 8 dam- 
1 aged hay. 
1908-9 
1909-10 
/ 
\ 
4. 71 cotton 
seed. 
/ 
None. 
Cents. 
39 
45 
50 
(2. 38 meal. 
\8. 70 hulls. 
Cents. 
67 
78 
62£ 
)8.50 cow- 
1 pea hay. 
Cents. 
53 
11. 8 dam- 
aged hay. 
Cents. 
4. 71 cotton 
Average increase in cost per hundredweight 
due to cost of wintering: 
1907-8 
seed. 
Cents. 
1908-9 
53 
64 
1909-10 
45 
69 
28 
53 
14 
53 
64 
The required increase in value per hundred- 
1907-8 
33 
12| 
8 
19 
1909-10 
Grand average 
25 
8 
8 
19 
The weights of the steers in the various lots were very uniform 
each year. The steers used the last year of the test were about 85 
pounds smaller than the steers used the first year. 
The loss in live weight of the steers of lot 1 was very uniform for 
the three winters, being 97, 106, and 106 pounds, respectively, for the 
three years. The steers which received hulls and meal lost 6 pounds 
each the first year, gained 3 pounds the second year, and gained 43 
pounds the final year of the experiments. The grand average for the 
three years shows the loss to be 101 pounds for each of the steers on 
range alone; a gain of 8 pounds for those fed on meal, hulls, and 
range; a loss of 9 pounds on those which received cowpea hay; a 
loss of 64 pounds on those which were fed the coarse damaged hay; 
and a loss of 40 pounds for those which had the range supplemented 
with cotton seed. 
Each steer of lot 2 consumed almost the same amounts of meal and 
hulls per day for the three winters, The average amount consumed 
