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CottonseeJ meal $26.00 per ton 



Cottonseed 14 . 00 per ton 



''Caddo" cake 23.00 per ton 



Cottonseed cake 25.00 per ton ; 



Cottonseed hulls 6.00 per ton 



' Damaged hay 5 . 00 per ton 



Cowpea hay 10 . 00 per ton 



Pasture 50 per month per steer 



The above represents the prices of the purchased feeds 

 laid down on the farm; the farm was fourteen miles from 

 the railroad station. The cottonseed cake, which had been 

 broken into nut size and sacked, was purchased from the 

 Epes Cotton Oil Co. of Epes, Alabama. This caKe can be 

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



Lot 3. — End of winter 1908. Feed, peavine hay and range. Total 

 winter gain of each steer, — 9 pounds. Total cost of 

 wintering each steer, $3.57. 



press, for about two dollars a ton cheaper than in the nut 

 size. Some feeders find that it pays to break the cake on 

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

 seed meal, except that it is not ground into a meal. There 

 are several advantages in feeding cake in place of cotton- 

 seed meal— especially in summer feeding. A rain does not 

 render the cake unpalatable; bi:t 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 ; cottonseed" 

 meal, when fed in the open pasture, is wasted on account of 

 the winds. Furthermore the cake requires chewing before 



