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parts oats and 4 parts corn. Substituting oil meal for a large part of 

 the oats saved 1.6 cents in daily cost of feed. 



488. Cottonseed meal. This protein-rich feed is not popular among 

 horsemen, as it may cause digestive disturbances and even poisoning 

 unless fed with care and in strictly limited amounts. When properly 

 fed, however, it may be used with entire success as a protein-rich supple- 

 ment to balance the ration. (250) Bell and Williams of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture 22 advise that generally not over 1 Ib. 

 be fed daily per 1,000 Ibs. live weight, tho some horses may be fed more 

 with satisfactory results. Only bright, high-grade meal should be fed to 

 horses. Cottonseed meal is a heavy feed and is not usually relished by 

 horses when fed alone. It should therefore be mixed with better-liked 

 bulky concentrates, such as whole or crushed oats, or corn-and-cob-meal. 

 At first not over one-fourth pound per head daily should be fed and the 

 allowance should be gradually increased as the horses become accustomed 

 to the taste and odor of the meal. At the North Carolina Station 23 

 Curtis found it impracticable to feed mules on cottonseed meal and ear 

 corn. Altho fairly satisfactory, a mixture of 1 part cottonseed meal 

 with 6 parts shelled corn was less relished than 1 part of meal with 3 

 of corn-and-cob meal, the remaining corn being fed on the cob. Louisiana 

 planters attribute their success in feeding cottonseed meal largely to the 

 fact that they mix it with blackstrap molasses. 



Disproving the claim that work stock fed on cottonseed meal suffer 

 from short wind and weak eyes, Curtis reports that trials covering 3 

 years showed no such harmful effects when the meal was properly fed. 

 Judge Henry C. Hammond of Augusta, Georgia, 24 reports that for 5 

 years he fed 10 pleasure and work horses each 1 Ib. of cottonseed meal 

 daily without a single sick animal or one not ready for work, due, he 

 holds, to the fact that the meal was always mixed with some light 

 concentrate. In a 1.54-day test at the Iowa Station 25 with 3 work teams 

 fed timothy hay, 6 per ct. of cottonseed meal proved as effective as 8 

 per ct. of linseed meal in balancing a grain mixture of 15 per ct. oats 

 and the remainder corn. 



489. Dried brewers' grains. Formerly this by-product was often an 

 economical substitute for oats. At the New Jersey Station 26 in a trial 

 with 4 teams of 1,000-lb. street car horses, fed a ration of 8 Ibs. oats, 2 

 Ibs. bran, 4 Ibs. shelled corn, and 6 Ibs. hay, Voorhees substituted an 

 equal weight of dried brewers' grains for the oats in the ration of one 

 horse in each team. The change produced no ill effects on the horses, 

 which traveled not less than 24 miles per day. The conclusion was 

 reached that pound for pound good quality dried brewers' grains were 



"U.S.D. A., Dept. Bui. 929; Farmers' Bui. 1030. 

 *N. C. Buls. 215, 216. 



"Pamphlet "Cottonseed Meal for Horses and Mules;" information to the 

 authors. 



"Iowa Bui. 109. "N. J. Bpt. 1892. 



