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Amounts of cotton seed meal causing death of shoats 

 ivhen fed with corn and sorghum or peanuts. 



Lot I. 



Mixed 



l^i'ain and 



sorghum 



(grazed. ) 



Lot II. 



Mixed 



grain and 



sorghum 



(fed.) 



Lot III. 



Mixed 



grain and 



peanuts 



(grazed. ; 



Total grain per head daily 



Total grain per 100 lbs. av. live weight 



Cotton seed meal per head daily 



Cotton seed meal dai.y per 100 lbs. av 



live weight 



Total amount cotton seed meal (incl'g 



preliminary week) 



Total amount cotton seed meal per 100 



lbs. av. live weight 



Lhs. 

 2 ()« 

 2.67 

 .41 



.53 



16.60 



21.60 



Lhs. 



1 27 



2 00 

 -25 



.40 



12 20 

 18, 90 



Lbs. 



1 76 



3 0.5 



.35 



.41 



15.20 



17. 70 



From t'his table it may be seen that a daily ration con- 

 taining one-fourtli pound or more of cotton seed meal 

 per 100 pounds of average live weight was fatal when 

 continued for about six weeks. No deaths occurred until 

 the small shoats (averaging about 64 pounds) had each 

 consumed 12.2 pounds of cotton seed meal. Per 100 

 pounds of liveweight the minimum fatal quantity was 

 18.9 pounds. 



EFFECTS OF A 20 PER CENT COTTON SEED MEAL MIXTURE AND 

 OF SORGHUM AND PEANUTS ON MELTING POINT 



OF LARD. 



Lai'd was rendered from samples of fat taken from 

 the neck and also from around the kidneys of one pig in 

 each of the lots just referred to. The melting points of 

 the lard were as follows : 



