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should constitute a day's allowance. Because the grains are low 

 priced is no reason for over-feeding with them. Corn meal is an 

 excellent complementary feed, two or three pounds being used 

 daily with the grains. Because of their sloppy character, some 

 dry feed should always be supplied with the grains unless the 

 cows are at pasture in summer. (182) 



Dried brewers' grains can be economically transported and form 

 an excellent feed for cows. Their purpose in the ration will be 

 largely to supply protein, which they carry in abundance. It 

 seems strange that American dried brewers' grains should find 

 their market largely in distant Germany. Four or five pounds of 

 dried grains will furnish a considerable portion of the protein re- 

 quired in the ration and prove very acceptable to the cow. (183) 



723. Cotton seed and its by-products. Vanderford, of the Ten- 

 nessee Station, 1 concludes as follows, after a study of cotton seed 

 and its by-products for cows: "We can recommend as giving 

 satisfactory results the use of as much as 15 pounds of cotton-seed 

 hulls in the dairy ration per 1,000 pounds live weight. A larger 

 proportion has, with our cows, caused a weakening of the digest- 

 ive powers, evidenced in some cases by a tendency to diarrhoea, 

 in others to constipation." 



Of cotton- seed meal he writes: " We do not think it advisable 

 to feed more than five pounds of cotton-seed meal daily to milch 

 cows. For butter- making it is not advisable to exceed three 

 pounds daily. Many years of close observation elsewhere, as 

 well as the results of recent experiments, induce the writer to be- 

 lieve that it is not safe to feed cotton-seed meal as the sole addi- 

 tion to the daily allowance of coarse fodders, particularly during 

 the three months preceding and month after calving." 



Connell and Clayton, 2 experimenting with cotton-seed meal and 

 cotton seed, found boiled cotton seed the cheapest available feed. 

 Lloyd, 3 testing cotton seed and cotton- seed meal, reached the fol- 

 lowing results, when cotton seed was valued at six dollars per ton 

 and cotton -seed meal at twenty dollars per ton: " By comparing 

 the averages of the lots fed on steamed seed, raw seed, and on 



- Bui. April, 1893. 



2 Bui. 33, Texas Expt. Sta. 



8 Bui. 21, Miss. Expt. Sta. 



