Cotton seed meal caused death or sickness of shoats 

 when constituting one-fifth or one-fourth of the grain 

 ration whetlier the cotton seed meal mixture was 

 fed alone or in connection witli a bountiful supply of 

 green sorghum or peanuts. 



Calculated on a basis of 100 pounds live weight, daily 

 doses of .25, .40, .41 and .53 of a pound of cotton seed 

 meal for 34 to 38 days caused sickness or death; .61 of 

 a pound daily for 35 days fed in different years to 

 shoats of practically the same size caused evident un- 

 thrift in one experiment, while in the other no imme- 

 diate effects were discernible. Shoats averaging 143 

 pounds in weight were not hurt by eating for 31 days 

 .73 of a pound of cotton seed meal daily per 100 pounds 

 live weight. Evidently the younger the pig the more 

 susceptible they are to cotton seed mieal poisoning. 



The health of shoats was injuriously affected or death 

 resulted, where, in an exclusive mixed grain ration, the 

 amount of cotton seed meal consumed per 100 pounds 

 of live weight reached, with the smallest shoats 1^2 

 pounds, and with larger shoats, 21.4 pounds; while in 

 a third experiment 21.5 pounds of cotton seed meal 

 was consumed per hundred weight without immediate 

 evidences of injury, and in a fourth experiment 22.6 

 pounds per 100 pounds of live weight was consumed 

 without visible effects on the health of large shoats. 

 Where a cotton seed meal mixture was fed in connec- 

 tion with grazed sorghum, cut sorghum, or grazed pear 

 nuts, toxic effects were manifested when respectively 

 21.6, 18.9 amd 17.7 pounds of cotton seed meal per hun- 

 dred weight had been consumed. We obtained highly 

 satisfactory growth when some cotton seed meal was 

 fed for short periods to shoats while grazing peanuts. 



Peanuts fed up to the da.te of slaughter made a very 

 soft lardl Chufas softened the lard to an almost equal 

 degree. 



