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Comparison of Different Amounts of Protein Supplement for Wintering Beef Cows on Forest Range in the Southeastern Coastal Plain¹

North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station and U.S. Department of Agriculture

Abstract

Three tests have been made thus far on wintering beef cows on different amounts of protein concentrates on forest range in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Two levels were tested in the winter of 1941–42 and three levels were tested the next two years.

These studies are bringing out the practicability of wintering breeding cows on forest range in this area. Even though some of the cows were fed as much as six pounds of cottonseed meal or soybean oil meal per head daily, they were wintered more economically than they could have been wintered on the farm at existing feed prices. Furthermore, gracing observations revealed no evidence of pines, which are the type of reforestation desired in that area, being browsed.

The studies have not gone far enough to determine the most economical amount to feed. There is a strong indication, however, that it might be most practical to start feeding two pounds per head daily and increase this amount as the available forage and the condition of the cattle warrant.

¹ Based on work conducted cooperatively by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, and the North Carolina Forestry Foundation. Published with the approval of the Director of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station as paper No. 207 of the Journal series.

² J. E. Foster and E. H. Hostetler, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station and Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture; and H. H. Biswell, Appalachian Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Acknowledgment is made to R. E. Comstock for assistance with the statistical analyses.