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In choice cottonseed meal, carrying 41 per cent of protein and 

 selling at $32 per ton, the protein would cost 3.9 cents per 

 pound. In prime cottonseed meal, carrying 38 per cent protein, 

 it would cost 4 cents per pound. In distillers' grains, as I 

 remember it, it would cost 6 cents. In gluten feed (and you 

 remember I showed you that if you wanted to buy carbohydrates 

 as well as protein it was an economical feed) it would cost 6.4 

 cents per pound, considering the protein alone. In wheat bran 

 protein would cost ten cents a pound, and in adulterated mixed 

 feed it would cost 12^ cents per pound. 



I have said, and I think I am ready to say again, that a farmer 

 who has grown what he ought to on his farm has no right to 

 go to the store and buy a concentrate that carries less than 15 

 per cent of protein. But this year I do not quite know what 

 to say. There is a gentleman before me using sucrene feed, 

 and he says he is getting good results by using it with cottonseed 

 meal. He has the problem of having to lighten the cottonseed 

 meal with something. I do not know that it is economical to 

 use sucrene meal. It is quite an expensive feed when we figure 

 it out as we have the other feeds. The problem before us that 

 I do not quite know how to settle is what we are going to bulk 

 our rations with, unless we use gluten feed, or distillers' grains, 

 or something of that nature. I think I should buy cottonseed 

 meal and either gluten feed or distillers' grains to mix with it, 

 and see if I were not getting ash constituents enough. We do 

 not know much about the function of mineral matters, but we 

 know that the animal needs them. You are selling phosphoric 

 acid and potash in the milk and you must get it from some 

 source. Cottonseed meal and the other feeds carry these to 

 some extent. I believe that in our buying we shall have to cut 

 out the wheat feeds until the prices are down to more nearly the 

 old normal. We shall have to substitute some of these other 

 feeds. 



Ques. Is there any danger in feeding cottonseed meal alone? 



Ans. I should never dare to feed cottonseed meal straight 

 by itself, as a grain. You could feed it on sileage with safety. 

 I should hardly dare to use oil meal or cottonseed meal in suffi- 

 cient quantities to balance up the ration, if I were trying to make 

 a close ration, without having some other grain. But do not 

 turn to protena or ground alfalfa. It is more expensive than 



