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seed meal, both proved satisfactory. Tlie steers fed the ration containing linseed 

 meal were as well finished as those receiveiug the clover-hay ration, although 

 they made smaller gains. 



The feeding of beef cattle, T. Butler (Bui. N. C. Dcpt. Agr., 21 (1906), 

 No. .5, pj). 27, fiffs. 6). — In the author's opinion the feeding of beef cattle in 

 North Carolina should be increased and may be profitably practiced to insure 

 the utilization of local-grown feeding stuffs and conse(iuent improvement of 

 soils. 



The available concentrated feeds, he points out. are cotton seed and cotton- 

 seed meal and the coarse foddei's shredded corn stover and silage and under 

 certain conditions cotton-seed hulls, pea vine, sorghum, and other home-grown 

 hays. 



"To the concentrates named it may be profitable in certain cases to add a 

 small quantity of corn, or corn and cob meal, but this is extremely doubtful. 



" This does not afford us a very large variety of feeding stuffs, and yet it 

 is quite practicable to feed cattle for from 4 to n months on corn stover, silage, 

 cotton seed and cotton-seed meal with quite satisfactory results both as regards 

 the daily gains made by the cattle and the financial returns from the operation. 

 . . . The usual high price of corn precludes its extensive use in this State. . . . 



" The same facts and reasoning as above applied to the feeding of corn 

 probably also apply to all other high-priced grains or concentrates, such as 

 wheat bran, rice products, gluten feeds, etc. In long feeding periods, small 

 quantities of these feeds may possibly be used advantageously, but even this 

 is doubtful, and it is quite certain that as a general rule the average feeder will 

 not find their use profitable in any quantity." 



Sample rations are suggested suitable for different breeds of fattening steers. 



In a discussion of feed lots and shelters, the feeding barn and lots in use at 

 a test farm of the State department of agriculture are described. 



Cattle-feeding' experiment, W. Bruce (Edinh. and East of Scot. Col. Agr. 

 Bui. 10, pp. 25 36). — A liberal v. a limited ration of turnips and moderate v. 

 heavy feeding was studied in continuation of earlier work (E. S. R., 17, p. 1003) 

 with 3 lots of 8 steers each, the feeding period covering 138 to 150 days. 



On a ration of 90 lbs. turnips with oat straw ad libitum and a daily allowance 

 of G lbs. of Bombay cotton-seed or other cake the average daily gain per head 

 was 1.78 lbs. With both turnips and straw ad libitum and the sauie amount 

 of cake as before the average daily gain was 1.75 lbs. per head. When the 

 cake was increased 50 per cent and the turnips and straw were the same as 

 with the first-mentioned lot the average daily gain was 2.02 lbs. per head. The 

 cost of a pound of gain in the 3 cases was 12 cts., 13 cts., and 11.9 cts., 

 respectively. 



A similar lot of 8 cattle was fed, at the time of the above test, for 120 days 

 turnips and straw with a variety of concentrated feeds and made an average 

 daily gain of 2.05 lbs. per head, the cost of a pound of gain being 12.5 cts. 



Sheep-feeding experiment, W. Bruce (Edinh. and EaM of Scot. Col. Agr. 

 Bui. 10. pp. i-,'/2).— Continuing earlier work (E. S. R., 17, p. 890) different con- 

 centrated feeds were tested, turnips and hay constituting the coarse fodder of 

 the rations. The sjiecial feeds were Bombay cotton-seed cake alone and mixed 

 with linseed cake and crushed oats, linseed cake, dried distillers' grains, and 

 decorticated cotton-seed cake with crushed maize. Each lot contained 30 sheep 

 and the test covered 85 days. 



The greatest gain, 2.54 lbs. per head per week, was made on the linseed cake 

 ration and the smallest gain. 2 lbs. i)er head per week, on the Bombay cotton- 

 seed cake and oats 1 : 1. With the latter ration tlie gain was most expensive, 



