. Yearbook of agriculture . es willfatten a steer or carry a cow and her calf for seven to ninemonths. Cattle are wintered on stover, hay, corn, silage, and Tablk .^.—Ammintx of feed used per 1,000 poundn live weight toicinter cattle in the Appalachian Region. J Class of ca 4tie. •3 o Feed required per 1,000 pounds live weight. ob. Z oO i 5 o o 1a 120 In West Virgiiiia:C!ows 123 745 Lbs.+13+66+11+46 -38 16 Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 8431,0231,119 621 ,44£ 90 Calves 182 2,857 130 Yearlings Two-year In North Carolina: Two to th
. Yearbook of agriculture . es willfatten a steer or carry a cow and her calf for seven to ninemonths. Cattle are wintered on stover, hay, corn, silage, and Tablk .^.—Ammintx of feed used per 1,000 poundn live weight toicinter cattle in the Appalachian Region. J Class of ca 4tie. •3 o Feed required per 1,000 pounds live weight. ob. Z oO i 5 o o 1a 120 In West Virgiiiia:C!ows 123 745 Lbs.+13+66+11+46 -38 16 Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 8431,0231,119 621 ,44£ 90 Calves 182 2,857 130 Yearlings Two-year In North Carolina: Two to three year olds > — 648121 953 2 859 120 3,314 675 61 1,529 1 One-fifth of these steers depended upon winter pasture, excepting for a period of about 2weeks when snow covered the ground, while the other foin-flfths had no pasture. The averaganumber of days of pasture for all was 42. Our Beef Supply. 259 cottonseed meal in the more productive sections of Pennsyl-vania, Maryland. Virginia, and West Virginia. There are. Fig. 33.—On the excellent blue-grass pastures in the central Appalachianregion many steers are finished on grass alone for the eastern some instances either corn, cottonseed meal, or both, are fed to thesteers on pasture. The upper picture shows cattle turned onto pasturein the middle of April. The lower shows cattle ready to market inSeptember. 260 YearhooJc of the Department of Agriculture^ 1921. very few beef cattle in the Great Lakes part of this region(see Figs. 2, 14 to 18, and 21 to 27). Table 5, based on records of 460 head, shows the quanti-ties of feed required per pounds live weight to keepcows, calves, yearlings, and 2-year olds through the winterfeeding period. To convert the amounts of feed to feed perhead, divide the quantities by 1,000 and multiply the resultbv the average weiirht of the cattle to be fed.
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