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" Nearly 7 ll)s. more butter were produced by these 6 cows fed 6 weeks on pisture 

 witb ensiled oats, vetches, and peas than was made in the 6 weeks immediately 

 preceding, on pasture, old silage, and fresh fodder corn, and nearly 40 lbs. more in 

 the 6 weeks imnu'diately following, when corn and rye silages were eaten. 



"It is not claimed that this is a strictly controlled experiment, but it serves to 

 show that oats and vetch, and oats and peas, ensiled, may be expected to produce 

 at least as good returns at the milk pail and in the churn as will corn silage." 



Feeding trials with animals, F. E. Emery {Forth Carolina Sta. 

 Bui 1(1.'), pj). 419-449). 



The effect of cotton- seed hulh and meal as cattle food (pp. 419-124). — A 

 discussion is giveu of the general cliaiacter and feeding- value of cotton- 

 seed hulls and cotton-seed meal, and a review of the results obtained 

 in a number of experiments, principally at the station, in feeding these 

 nniterials in various combinations to steers and cows. From the expe- 

 rience at hand, rations containing these materials are suggested for 

 fattening and for milk. 



"Where it is desirable to feed an animal just sufficient to maintain it without 

 loss, the following rations may be used : Hulls from rather green seed may be fed 

 alone, the particles of seed kernels remaining accidentally with the hulls being 

 counted on for maintenance, or, perhaps, even for slow fattening. . . . With well 

 cleaned hulls, however, some cotton-seed meal must be used, depending somewhat 

 on the animal fed. . . . Probably 8 or 10 lbs. of hulls to 1 lb. of meal, when fed in 

 quantity (as much as can be eaten clean), will support life and maintain the weight 

 of ueat stock. 



"P'orslow fattening rations ranging from 7 of hulls to 1 of meal down to 5 or 4 to 

 1 may be used, depending on the animals fed and skill of the feeder. . , . 



"Rations for making good beef quickly may range from 4 to 1 down to 2 to 1, or 

 even 1.5 to 1, as we have fed steers successfully on the latter ration. . . . 



"When a cow has passed about 4 or 5 months of gestation, and the flow of milk 

 has greatly diminished, she may be put on a ration of hulls and meal, which may be 

 varied from 4 to 1 to as much as 7 or 8 to 1 of hulls to meal until she has dried off. 

 This will supjjort the cow well. It would be well all this time, however, to be feed- 

 ing once per day some hay, stover, straw, or let her graze part of each day. For 2 

 or 3 weeks before calving, the cow's ration should be changed by substituting a 

 bucculent diet or bran for the cotton-seed meal." 



Cotton-seed meal as a horse food (pp. 425, 426). — Two horses were 

 fed in the first period a ration of clover straw (chaff), corn meal, 

 and ship stuff, on which one horse gained and the other lost in weight. 

 During the second period corn meal and ship stuff were both reduced 

 1 lb., and 2 lbs. of cotton-seed meal fed instead. During this period 

 both horses gained in weight; there was "an almost regular advance 

 in body weight." In the third period the cotton-seed meal was increased 

 to 3 J lbs. and the clover straw was changed to timothy hay. JSTeither 

 horse ate the timothy hay well and the period lasted only 8 days. 



"Neither horse showed any symptoms to indicate that the cofclon-seed meal dis- 

 agreed with it, but both objected to late-cut timothy hay after crimson clover 

 straw and chaff. . . . 



"Later, in reply to an inquiry, Mr. E. d'Alinge, of the Biltmore estate, writes that 

 he has for some time been feeding 2 lbs. per day, except Sundays, to work horses 

 and mules. The ration, with cotton-seed meal in this case, being as follows: 13 to 



