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steers on a ration of eleven and one-half pounds 

 wheat meal, three and one-half pounds cotton seed 

 meal and four pounds of prairie hay per day. 

 When corn costs as much as or even a little more than 

 cotton seed meal, it is profitable to use it in replac- 

 ing a portion of the cotton seed meal. In feeding 

 experiments carried on in England, cotton seed 

 meal showed a lower feeding value than decorti- 

 cated cotton seed cake. In a series of tests in 

 Alabama it was found that when sorghum was 

 used with the cotton seed meal steers showed a 

 better percentage of dressed beef than when sor- 

 ghum was replaced with mixed hay or corn stover. 

 In the rapidity of gain, the cotton seed meal and 

 sorghum ration also stood at the head and, like- 

 wise, the amount of food required for a pound of 

 gain was less with this ration than with any other. 



Distiller's Grains. Recently the by-products of 

 distillation have been tested to a limited extent in 

 feeding cattle, pigs, horses and other animals. It 

 appears that dried distiller's grains in combination 

 with corn are a very economic ration for steers. 



In a set of experiments in Kentucky this ration 

 proved the cheapest and less corn was required 

 for a pound of gain, when distiller's grains were 

 used quite extensively. 



Gluten Feed, as well as gluten meal, has proved 

 a very effective grain for domestic animals. In 

 fattening steers, gluten feed in some experiments 

 has proved superior to a mixture of cotton seed 

 meal and ground wheat. The daily ration may 

 be five or six pounds. Gluten feed is not expensive 

 as compared with its feeding value and often gives 

 a greater profit than a mixture of cotton seed meal, 

 barley and linseed meal. Certain feeders have 

 found it advisable to begin the feeding of gluten 



