FATTENING CATTLE IE" ALABAMA. 33 
STEERS SUMMERED ON PASTURE AND COLD PRESSED CAKE. 
Group C was composed of steers which received cold-pressed 
cottonseed cake as a summer feed. This was not fed each summer 
of the 3 years as were some of the other lots, but was fed during 1908 
only. This group gave different results from the others mentioned 
with respect to the steers which made the greatest gains during the 
summer. For some reason which can not be explained the steers of 
group C which lost the most in weight during winter made the smallest 
gains when put on pasture. The steers which were fed during the 
winter and were as heavy in the spring as in the fall (those of lots 2 
and 3) gained more by one-sixth of a pound per steer per day during 
the grazing season than the steers of lot 1, in this group, which were 
wintered on range alone. 
STEERS SUMMERED ON PASTURE AND COTTON SEED. 
The steers of group E were fed during 1909 only. The price of 
cotton seed since that time has been so high that it has been better 
policy to trade it for cottonseed meal or cake than to feed ^h.e raw 
seed. During this year, however, the steers which made up group E 
had been wintered in lots 1, 2, 4, and 5. Those which had been 
wintered in lot 1 experienced the heaviest winter loss by far, and 
made the largest daily gains on pasture, but these heavy gains on 
pasture (2.28 pounds per steer per day) were not great enough to 
overcome the difference in the winter losses when compared with 
those of the other lots. In other words, the steers which became so 
poor during the winter gained much faster during the summer months 
than the heavier fleshed steers, but at the end of the feeding experi- 
ment they were still lighter in weight than the steers which received 
feed during the winter. 
STEERS SUMMERED ON PASTURE AND A HEAVY RATION OF COTTONSEED CAKE. 
As has been previously explained, the steers of group F were larger 
and fleshier than the steers of the other groups. They were selected 
thus so they could be finished in a shorter time for the market, and 
were fed a heavier ration of cottonseed cake per day during the 
summer feeding period. They are, therefore, not strictly comparable 
with the other groups. The steers in this group which lost the 
greatest amount of flesh during the winter gained fastest in weight 
during the summer, but never got as heavy as the steers which lost no 
flesh during the winter. The steers which had passed the winter on 
range alone were not nearly as well finished at the time they were 
sold as were the other steers which had received winter feed. This 
was more noticeable with this group of steers than with any of the 
groups which were fed for a longer summer period. 
