FOODS AFTMAL PKODUOTION. 



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Results of second fcrding test with steers. 



Lot 1 (eotton-seert hulls, cotton- 

 seed meal, and, dnrinKthc last 

 •10 days, corn-and-cdh clinii)--- 



Lot 2 (cotton-sot'd hulls, cotton- 

 .seed meal, sorghum hay, and, 

 during the last 40 days, corn- 

 and-cob chop) 



Lots (<'(itt(in-scc(l hulls, cotton- 

 seed meal, and a small amount 

 of corn-an<i-('ci)i chop) 



Lot 4 (co(i(in-s('c(l hulls, cotton- 

 seed meal, and a large amount 

 of corn-and-ciib chop) 



Lots (cotton-seed hulls, cotton- 

 seed meal, a small amount of 

 corn-and-cob chop, and oats) . . 



Lot 6 (cotton-seed hulls, cotton- 

 seed meal, a large amount of 

 corn-and-cob chop, and oats) . . 



Cost per 



pound of 



gain. 



Cents. 

 4.000 



Shipping 



weight at 



station. 



Pounds. 

 927. 50 



4. 263 

 3.422 



996. 16 

 977.21 

 3.856 1 953.78 

 3.875 : 965.21 

 3.800 021.25 



Waste 

 fat per 

 steer. 



Pounds. 

 37.0 



37.5 

 34.3 

 32.3 

 33.3 

 34.3 



The author's conchisions follow: 



"Sorghum hay is more than equal to cotton-seed hulls, when fed with hulls and 

 cotton-seed meal. The common practice of 'topping out' the hull and meal ration 

 with corn chops is not so profitable as to feed the same amount of corn chops from 

 the beginning. Steers fed 100 days only will make rapid gains on the several rations 

 used. 



"When corn chops is combined with hulls and meal, a feed of 2 lbs. of chops made 

 more gain at less cost than when 4 lbs. of chops were used. Equal parts of oats, 

 corn chops, and cotton-seed meal, combined with hulls, make an excellent ration. 

 Corn chops and shelled oats are of equal value for fattening steers when fed with 

 hulls and meal. Steers eating corn chops shrink largely in live weight, wdien shipped, 

 if the chops is combined with hulls and meal." 



jFeed value of cotton seed and its j>roducts (pp. 178-214). — The com- 

 position and feeding value of cotton seed and its products are discussed 

 at considerable length, the experience of the station and a number of 

 individual feeders l>eing cited in detail. 



Pig feeding, J. S. Newman and J. S. Pickett {South Carolina Sta. 

 Bui. 52^ pp. P2,Jigs. Jf). — Peanuts, sweet potatoes, and field peas were 

 compared with corn with 4 lots of pigs each containing a sow and two 

 barrows. Part of the pigs were 8 and the others 11 months old at the 

 beginning of the test, November 23. In the 84 days of the test the 

 pigs fed peanuts made an average daily gain of 4.32 lbs, ; those fed 

 sweet potatoes, 2.59 lbs.; those fed field peas, 3.34 lbs.; and those fed 

 corn, 4.17 lbs. The amounts of the difi'erent feeding stuffs consumed 

 per pound of gain were 6.7, 26.2, 6.7, and 9.2 lbs., respectively. 



On the supposition that the yield of corn was 15, Spanish peanuts 

 90, cowpeas 10, and sweet potatoes 200 bu. per acre, and that pork was 

 worth 5 cts. per pound, the authors calculate that (when fed to pigs) 

 corn is worth 16. 97; peanuts, $24.37; sweet potatoes, $18.24; cowpeas, 

 $6.12 per acre. 



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