20 BULLETIN 110, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In 1910 it cost from $1.10 in lot A to $4.37 in lot G to make 100 
pounds of increase in live weight; in lot B, where cake and pasture 
were fed, each 100 pounds of increase in weight cost $3.19. It is 
shown again, therefore, that cake with alfalfa hay was not as efficient 
and economical as cake alone. When cake alone was fed along with 
the pasture only 176 pounds were required to produce an increase 
in weight of 100 pounds, but when alfalfa hay and cake were both fed 
it required 187 pounds of cake and 122 pounds of hay to produce the 
same increase in weight. 
During the summer of 1911, 229 pounds of cottonseed cake were 
required to make 100 pounds of gain. When the cost of both the 
pasture and the cake was charged against the gains it cost $1.02 and 
$4.03 to make 100 pounds of increase in weight in lots A and B, 
respectively. 
PRICES REALIZED FOR PASTURE AND COTTONSEED CAKE WHEN FED 
TO THE CATTLE. 
The statement below illustrates the fact that southern pastures 
may be put to profitable use by means of beef cattle, and adds fur- 
ther evidence to the assertion that the farmer can usually well afford 
to buy certain outside feeds — those not grown upon the farm — and 
feed them to his cattle. It will be observed that lot G is not included 
in the statement. This lot received some hay in addition to the cake, 
but as the hay was only a partial ration the results in this case would 
be inconclusive. With the price of pasture fixed at 50 cents a month 
per steer and cottonseed cake at $26 a ton, the following prices were 
realized as a result of feeding to the cattle: 
Cottonseed cake, lot B: 
1910 per ton. . $69. 37 
1911 do ... . 50. 94 
Pasture: 
Lot A, 1910 for season. . 8. 95 
Lot B, 1910 do ... . 11. 02 
Lot A, 1911 do ... . 7. 80 
Lot B , 1911 do ... . 8. 81 
It is seen that the cottonseed cake, which cost $26 a ton, was fed 
to the steers and sold by means of them for $50.94 and $69.37 a ton. 
Regarding the pasture, there are thousands of acres in the South, 
and good ones, too, that lie idle all the year. If these idle areas were 
set to pasture and grazed by live stock excellent profits could be 
realized. In 1910 the grazing proved to be worth from $8.95 to 
$11.02 for each steer. In 1911 the pasture was worth for each steer, 
$7.80 in lot A and $8.81 in lot B. It would not have been possible 
to have made these profits had the pastures not been established. 
