. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. s&y'*$&u f BULLETIN No. 631 Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief. SL&*^3L Washington, D. C. April 19, 1918 FIVE YEARS' CALF-FEEDING WORK IN ALABAMA AND By W. F. Waed and S. S. Jerdan. Of the Animal Husbandry Division. CONTENTS. Page. I. Winter fattening of calves in Alabama on cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, corn-and- cob meal, and alfalfa hay, 1911-12 II. Fattening calves in Alabama on cottonseed meal, _ cottonseed hulls, corn chop, and corn silage, 1912-13
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. s&y'*$&u f BULLETIN No. 631 Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief. SL&*^3L Washington, D. C. April 19, 1918 FIVE YEARS' CALF-FEEDING WORK IN ALABAMA AND By W. F. Waed and S. S. Jerdan. Of the Animal Husbandry Division. CONTENTS. Page. I. Winter fattening of calves in Alabama on cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, corn-and- cob meal, and alfalfa hay, 1911-12 II. Fattening calves in Alabama on cottonseed meal, _ cottonseed hulls, corn chop, and corn silage, 1912-13 Page. III. Fattening calves in Mississippi on cottonseed meal, corn, cot- tonseed hulls, corn silage, and alfalfa hay, 1914-15 21 IV. Fattening calves in Mississippi on cottonseed meal, corn, corn silage, and alfalfa, 1915-16 29 V. Fattening late (short-aged) calves for market 39 VI. General discussion of five years' experiments 48 I. WINTER FATTENING OF CALVES ON COTTONSEED MEAL, COTTONSEED HULLS, CORN-AND-COB MEAL, AND ALFALFA HAY. PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS. During the winter of 1910-11 (November 17 to March 17) this bureau, working in cooperation with the Alabama Experiment Sta- tion, carried on an experiment in fattening calves on various rations. These results are published in Bulletin 147 of the Bureau of Animal Industry and in Bulletin 158 of the Alabama Experiment Station. The first lot of calves was fattened on a ration of cottonseed meal, hulls, and alfalfa hay. The second lot was given a one-third ration of corn-and-cob meal in conjunction with the cottonseed meal, hulls, and hay. The third lot was given a liberal allowance of corn-and-cob meal and a rather small allowance of cottonseed meal, the corn-and- cob meal constituting two-thirds of the concentrated part of the ration. As the work reported in the present bulletin is really a dupli- 1 This work was done in cooperation with the Alabama Experiment Station, J. F. Duggar, director, and the Mississippi Experiment Stat
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