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for 10 months with satisfactory profit, I)iit 1 don't want to put a long 

 feed period on an aged steer — not over five months. I tliink, as a rule, 

 there is greater profit in a shorter feed period. The prime lieavy cattle 

 today are not ])ringing enough money, and it is not always the cattle that 

 are selling for the most money on our markets that are making the feeder 

 the most money. The demand now is for the medium fat cattle, and the 

 reason for that is that we have had too many prime heavy cattle. 



Q. What is the objection to feeding cotton seed meal to young 

 stock ? 



A. I have fed cotton seed meal to calves and yearlings, l)ut there 

 seems to be an irritant aliout it. The calves have not done as well as 

 with the linseed meal, and the hogs following the cattle have invariably 

 done better with the latter. 



(F. B. 



FATTENING CATTLE ON BLUE GRASS PASTURE. 



Mumford, Dean of College of Agriculture and Director of Experiment Station, 



University of Missouri.) 



The Missouri Experiment Station has been investigating for several 

 years the fattening of cattle on blue grass pasture. 



The following extracts are taken from Bulletin 95 of the Station, 

 which contains a complete record of these investigations. 



VALUE OF LINSEED OIL ME.VL. 



All the results of these investigations show that the feeding of a 

 nitrogenous supplement like cottonseed or linseed meal daring the later 

 stages of the feeding period is a profitable practice. This is clearly showai 

 in the records of lot 70, which received linseed oil meal during the last 

 eight weeks of the fattening period. (See table 1.) 



TABLE 1. 



VALUE OF LINSEED OIL MEAL DURING THE LAST PART OF THE FEEDING 

 PERIOD— AVERAGE DAILY GAIN, YEAR 1906. 



