Bulletin Volume 112-146 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...pounds, this poor showing being attributable, of course, to the calves that they suckled. The history of five young steers, weighed at intervals for two years is of interest as showing the effect of age on the rate of growth of very young cattle. The folloAving table gives the details: Growth made by young scrub steers in two years. From this table we see that the average gain per steer per year was 145 pounds, worth at 2y2c per pound, $3.67. The increase made by these young steers was during the first year 42 per cent over their weights in the spring. The same steers made during their second year an increase of 44 per cent, over their weights of the second spring. In other words, there was little difference in the profits during the two years, in spite of the difference in the age. Weights and gains made during the pasturage season by scrub cattle in Macon County. Loss of tceight by range cattle during winter.--The management of this herd of cattle included many matters, which in the opinion of the writers, were at fault, or could have heen improved; for example, the almost exclusive purchase of scrub or grade Jersep cattle rather than the raising of calves from the owner's cows and sired by a thoroughbred bull of any of the beef breeds. Another great mistake in management, we belive, consisted in requiring the cattle to subsist throughout the entire winter without any food whatsoever except what they could obtain on the range from canebrakes, cotton stalks, corn stalks, etc. Since our weighing was not niade until May of each year, when the cattle had been on pasturage for about a month, it is not possible to estimate exactly the amount of decrease in live weight occurring between the time that the fall pastux-age failed and that the grasses put out in the...