FATTENING CATTLE IN ALABAMA. 
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In figure 2, all of the steers are seen to have been fed the same 
length of time during the summer. A glance at the 3 charts will show 
that while some of the winter lots experienced heavy losses in weight, 
these cattle gained more rapidly during the summer months and 
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approached the mean or the average of all lots more rapidly than the 
steers which lost a smaller amount of flesh during the winter. 
The length of the summer-feeding periods for the years 1908, 1909, 
and 1910 were 112, 154, and 118 days, respectively, for all cattle 
