Station Tests with Feeds for Dairy Cows. 



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644. Cotton seed and its by-products. At the Mississippi Sta- 

 tion, l Lloyd tested cotton seed and its by-products in various 

 forms for milk and butter production with the results summarized 

 in the following tdble: 2 



Feeding cotton seed and its by-products to dairy cows Mississippi 



Station. 



(a) Bui. lo. Cost of feed in these six experiments, per ton: Raw cotton seed, $fi; 

 boiled cotton seed, $6.30; roasted cotton seed, $7.20; cotton-seed meal, $20; Bermuda 

 hay. $12.50; corn meal. $25; timothy hay, $20.80. 



(6) Bui. 21. Roasted and boiled cotton seed and cotton-seed meal were same prices 

 as in note (a); Bermuda hay, $10; timothy hay, $21.46; and silage $2 per ton, 



1 Buls. 15, 21. 



2 The Cotton Plant: Its History, etc., p. 412. 



