IjS MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Mr. Emmons. — How would it do to use cotton-seed meal instead 

 of oil meal.'' 



Mr. Forbes. — I am experimenting with cotton-seed meal now. 



Mr. Emmons. — Don't you think hogs will do well on a small per 

 cent of cotton-seed meal? 



Mr. Forbes. — I am trying to find out. So far as we know it is a 

 poison to hogs. It is not good for calves. As a rule, I think it is 

 the cheapest grain supplement to corn for older cattle. 



I am carrying out an experiment in feeding it to hogs, fermented. 

 T expect these hogs to die as other people's do, but they may not. 

 Remember that ration No. i (Table V) is a balanced ration, and I fed 

 that to growing pigs for dry-lot feeding. 



Mr. Boles. — What is the best feed when they have the run of 

 clover pasture? 



Mr. Forbes. — Then I would feed them corn, but in dry-lot feeding 

 I would give them ration No. i. They do not like oil meal at first, but 

 in a day or two they come to like it. Probably it will be more pala- 

 table by mixing some middlings with it. 



Mr. Boles. — Do you make the slop thin? 



Mr. Forbes. — This was fed in a thick slop. 



Mr. . Would not charcoal do as well as the bone meal 



used with lot ii. Table V? 



Mr. Forbes. — Probably not. It has a diffevent composition and 

 usefulness. Lime has a very slight value. 



Mr. Gabbert. — Hogs like lime, for some cause. 



Mr. Forbes. — There is more phosphoric acid in bone meal than in 

 lime, and that is quite useful to hogs. 



Mr. Emmons. — What do you think of germ oil meal? 



Mr. Forbes. — I am testing germ oil meal, gluten meal, gluten 

 feed and cotton-seed meal, oil meal and middlings on the farm now 

 and will tell you the results next year. 



Mr. . Is feeding cob corn charcoal a detriment? 



j\Tr. Forbes. — I do not think it is. The cob contains some ash, a 

 slight amount of potash and a very slight amount of phosphoric acid. 



Mr. Boles. — How do you think it would do to put concentrated 

 lye in the slop? 



Mr. Forbes. — It would probably clean _\our barrel. 



?.fr. Boles. — And the hogs? 



Mr. Forbes. — Maybe it would. 



