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During the first 28 days each steer received an average 

 ■of only 4.04 pounds of cottonseed meal each day. The 

 cattle feeder would not, as a rule, expect to secure good 

 ^•ains wh<'n the daily allowance of cottonseed meal was 

 Oiily 4.04 jx.iinds. but the data show that these animals 

 uiade excellent gains during the first 28 days. During 

 the first period each steer in Lot 1 (the silage-fed lot) re- 

 "Ceived 14.88 pounds of cottonseed hulls and 22.57 pounds 

 of corn silage each day, along \\ith the 4.04 pounds ot 

 €ottonseed meal. The cottonseed meal was sprinlded 

 over the hulls and silage and thoroughly mixed by hand 

 During the first period of 2S days each steer in Lot 3, the 

 lot to which nothing was fed except the cottonseed meal 

 and hulls, ate 20.53 pounds of cottonseed hulls along 

 with Iht' 4.04 pounds of meal. At the end of the test, 

 when the cottonseed meal was increased to 7.73 pounds 

 for each steer daily, as many pounds of hulls were not 

 consumed as at the beginning, so the daily allowance 

 was cut diiwu to 23.90 pounds for each steer. In Lot 2, 

 the lot in which Johnson-grass hay was used to supple- 

 ment the cottonseed meal and hulls, each steer, during 

 the first period, ate 13.58 pounds of hulls and 9.43 pounds 

 of the hay each day along with the 4.04 pounds of cotton- 

 seed meal; they were given as much hay each day as 

 they would clean uj). The hay was fed in racks and 

 none of it was trampled under foot and wasted. 



During the second period of 28 days each steer ate 

 an everage of pounds of cottonseed meal each day. 

 \Mth the exception of a small increase, the roughage 

 part of each ration was maintained practically as it was 

 in the first period. Each steer in Lot 3 ate practically 

 30 pounds of cottonseed hulls each day. The average 

 cattle of the South, which are not as large as the ones 

 used in this test, will not consume 30 pounds of hulls 

 per steer per day. In some former beef feeding work 

 done by this Station and the Bureau,* steers which av- 

 erage 810 pounds in weight at the close of the test ate 

 only 19.9 pounds of cottonseed hulls daily. 



*See Bureau of Animal Industrv, bulletin 103. 



