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and end of each test, and with the exception of Lots X 

 and Y during the winter of 1909-10, the total weight of 

 each lot was noted every twenty-eight days. When the 

 stivers were sold they were driven 4 miles to the shipping 

 point at A^'hitfield, Alabama. 



CHARACTER AND PRICE OF FEEDS. 



Local conditions determine to a large extent the farm 

 prices of feeds. Any price that might be assumed would 

 not meet nil conditions, but the following prices have 

 been taken as a basis upon which to make financial es- 

 timates : 



Cottonseed meal .$26.00 a ton 



Cottonseed cake 26.00 a ton 



Cottonseed hulls 7.00 a ton 



Johnson-grass hay 11.00 a tori 



Pasture, per steer 50 cts. a month 



All of th(! feeds were of good quality. The cottonseed 

 cake, which was used in all of the summer feeding work, 

 had been broken into nut size by the oil mill and sacked. 

 As has been slated in a previous bulletin, this cake can 

 be purchased in the large cake size, just as it comes from 

 the press, for about .$2.00 a ton cheaper than in the nut 

 size. Some feeders fmd that it pays to break the cake 

 on their own farms. The cake is the same thing as cot- 

 tonseed meal, except that it is not ground into a meal. 

 There are several advantages in feeding cake in place of 

 cottonseed meal, especially in summer feeding. A rain 

 does not render the cake unpalatable; but it will often 

 put the meal in such a condition that the cattle will not 

 eat it. Again, no loss is incurred with the cake during 

 windy days, whereas the meal, when fed in the open 

 pasture, is sometimes wasted on account of the winds. 

 Furthermore, the cake requires chewing before being 

 swallowed, and therefore must be eaten very much 

 slower than the meal, so when a number of steers are 

 being fed together the greedy one has little chance to get 

 enough cake to produce scours. In feeding cottonseed 

 meal the greedy steer often scours on account of the fact 



