Effect of winter rations on Effect of winter rations on pasture gains of yearling steers effectofwinterra00shee Year: 1920 y BULLETIN 870, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Table 1.âPlan of the four years' worJ:. â Lot Season. Steers. in lot. 1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 10 10 10 Lots 1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 X917-18 10 10 10 10 Lots 1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 1917-1S 10 10 10 10 Lot 1917-18 10 Lot 1317-lS 10 Winter Com silage, hav, and wlieat straw. do ' do Com silage, wheat straw, and cottonseed meaL do do :.. do Mixed hay and wheat strav/. do do do Com sila
Effect of winter rations on Effect of winter rations on pasture gains of yearling steers effectofwinterra00shee Year: 1920 y BULLETIN 870, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Table 1.âPlan of the four years' worJ:. â Lot Season. Steers. in lot. 1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 10 10 10 Lots 1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 X917-18 10 10 10 10 Lots 1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 1917-1S 10 10 10 10 Lot 1917-18 10 Lot 1317-lS 10 Winter Com silage, hav, and wlieat straw. do ' do Com silage, wheat straw, and cottonseed meaL do do :.. do Mixed hay and wheat strav/. do do do Com silace and soy-^ean hay Com silage, rye hay, and cottonseed me.'1. Summer Pasture. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. 1 New lots of steers were used each year, totaling as follows: 1914, 30 steers; 1915, 30 steers; 1916, 33 steers; 1917, 40 steers. 2 From time cattle were taken off pasture in December until turned on pasture, about May 1. 3 From time cattle went on grass in spring imtil sold. Each summer all the steers were turned into the Same pasture and had no feed except the grass. KIND OF STEERS USED. The steers used in this work were of grade Shorthorn, Hereford, and Aberdeen-Angus breeding. They were raised in southern West Virginia and were a good, uniform lot of cattle in age, weight, quality, and condition. They averaged from 650 to 675 pounds in weight Fig. 3.âSteers in Lot 1 at end of winter feeding, 191/-1S. at the beginning of the winter period and were 1 year old the previous spring. FEEDS USED. Samples of each of the feeds used were taken at different times throughout the four winter feeding periods and sent to the De- partment of Chemistry, West Virginia Experiment Station, Morgan- town, W. Va., and there analyzed, with the results shown in Table 2.
Size: 2100px × 952px
Photo credit: © Bookworm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: archive, book, drawing, historical, history, illustration, image, page, picture, print, reference, vintage
