. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN OF THE No. 73. Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry, A. D. Melvin, Chief March 30, 1914. RAISING AND FATTENING BEEF CALVES IN ALABAMA.^ By Dan T. Gray, Formerly Professor of Animal Husbandry, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and W. F. Wabd, Senior Animal Husbandman in Beef Cattle Investiga- tions, Animal Husbandry Division. STATEMENT OF FORMER WORK. During the years 1906, 1907, and 1908 the Bureau of Animal In- dustry, working in cooperation with the Alabama Agricultural Ex- periment Station, conducte
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN OF THE No. 73. Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry, A. D. Melvin, Chief March 30, 1914. RAISING AND FATTENING BEEF CALVES IN ALABAMA.^ By Dan T. Gray, Formerly Professor of Animal Husbandry, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and W. F. Wabd, Senior Animal Husbandman in Beef Cattle Investiga- tions, Animal Husbandry Division. STATEMENT OF FORMER WORK. During the years 1906, 1907, and 1908 the Bureau of Animal In- dustry, working in cooperation with the Alabama Agricultural Ex- periment Station, conducted experiments in cooperation with Mr. J. S. Kernachan, of Sheffield, Ala., to obtain definite information regarding the cost of raising grade steers to the feed lot period under average southern conditions. (See Bulletin 131 of the bureau, or 150, Alabama Experiment Station.) The animals used in the Kernachan work were a herd of grade Aberdeen-Angus cows, headed by two pure- bred Aberdeen-Angus bulls. During the summer months the herd grazed upon a good pasture; no feed was given in addition to the pasture. This pasture was made up principally of white clover, Japan clover (lespedeza), several varieties of native grasses, and some Bermuda. This afforded the animals abundant pasture for about seven months of the year. During the winter all of the cattle, young and old, had the run of the range, which consisted of old corn and cotton fields, with some cane along the river and creek banks. In addition to the winter range, hay and cotton seed were fed, so that when spring came the cattle were in reasonably good flesh. The young stock made gains during the winter, but the cows and older animals usually lost in weight during the latter part of the winter. These cows and calves were allowed to become infested with the cattle tick, but when they became badly infested they were greased on those parts of the body where ticks were most numerous. The presence of the cattle tick, together w
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