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The monthly weights and the final experimental weights were made 



always under normal conditions. The cattle were weighed each morning 



as nearly the same time as possible before any feed or water had been 



given. 



METHOD OF FEEDING. 



When the cattle first arrived at the farm they were turned on a small 

 pasture, where they remained in the daytime during the preliminary 

 period. After this period of nineteen days they were placed in the barn 

 with eight steers in each of six pens and fed two equal feeds regularly 

 each morning and evening. The roughage was given in moderately large 

 quantities and increased gradually until a full feed of corn silage and 

 cotton-seed hulls were being fed. This consisted on the average during 

 the experimental period of 21.95 pounds of cotton-seed hulls and 42.46 

 pounds of corn silage. This is about the proportion in which these two 

 feeds are usually given in practical feeding work. 



Table 2 — AVERAGE DAILY AMOUNT OF COTTON-SEED MEAL, COTTON-SEED HULLS 

 AND CORN SILAGE FED PER STEER DAILY BY 28-DAY PERIODS, INCLUDING THE 

 PRELIMINARY AND EXPERIMENTAL PERIOD. 



*Fed two and one-half days. fFed sixteen and one-half days. 



The cotton-seed meal Avas fed first at the rate of 1 pound per animal 

 daily, and increased gradually until the standard ration of 7.5 pounds 

 per steer daily was reached. In both cases the cotton-seed meal was fed, 

 mixed with the cotton-seed hulls and corn silage. The roughage feeds 

 were placed in the troughs first, after which the meal was spread over 

 them and mixed evenly and thoroughly. Special attention is called here 

 to the necessity of mixing the cotton-seed meal and roughage feeds 

 thoroughly. This will prevent some steers from getting more than their 

 share of the meal, which may thus cause cotton-seed meal sickness or an 

 uneven finish. Thorough mixing is an inducement for steers to eat all 

 of their roughage, besides furnishing in each case a A'ery desirable 

 dilutent for the cotton-seed meal. Successful feeding of cotton-seed meal 

 depends on two factors : First, the meal must be fed in small quantities 

 in the beginning and gradually increased ; second, it must be thoroughly 

 mixed with coarse feeds such as those used in these experiments. 



