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head daily should be fed at one year of age, except to calves being fat- 

 tened for the market as baby beef. 84 Ward reports that in several trials 

 beef calves ranging from 7 to 10 months in age when placed on feed have 

 been fed 3 to 4 Ibs. of cottonseed meal per head daily for periods of 100 

 to 112 days. 65 Longer feeding with these amounts of meal would un- 

 doubtedly have poisoned the calves. 



Ward, Gray, and Jerdan 56 carried on trials during 6 years to deter- 

 mine whether it was more profitable in the southeastern states to fatten 

 calves for baby beef on cottonseed meal as the only concentrate or to 

 substitute corn for a part of the cottonseed meal. They found that where 

 corn was fed liberally the calves made larger gains than when cottonseed 

 meal was the only concentrate. However, the addition of corn invariably 

 increased the cost of the gains, and the calves fed cottonseed meal without 

 any corn usually returned a slightly greater profit. 



751. Cold-pressed cottonseed cake; cottonseed feed Cold-pressed cot- 

 tonseed cake or meal is well liked by cattle and produces very satisfactory 

 results. (248) As it contains the hulls and is thus much lower in protein 

 and higher in fiber than cottonseed meal, it is worth correspondingly less 

 per ton. Averaging the results of 3 different trials, 67 it has required 

 138 Ibs. of cold-pressed cottonseed cake or meal to equal 100 Ibs. of choice 

 cottonseed meal. In each trial the value of the cold-pressed cake or meal 

 was slightly higher compared with the cottonseed meal than its protein 

 content would indicate. A safe basis for valuing cold-pressed cottonseed 

 cake or meal in comparison with cottonseed meal when the guaranteed 

 crude protein content of each is known, is to estimate the amount of 

 cottonseed meal and of cottonseed hulls a ton of the cold-pressed product 

 contains, and add to the value of the meal the value of the hulls as 

 roughage. 



Cottonseed feed, a mixture of cottonseed meal and hulls, was compared 

 with cottonseed meal as a protein-rich supplement in a trial by Tomhave 

 at the Pennsylvania Station. 58 Due to the lower protein content of the 

 cottonseed feed, considerably more was needed to balance the ration than 

 of cottonseed meal. Cottonseed meal at $65.00 per ton was a decidedly 

 more economical feed than cottonseed feed at $52.50 per ton. Rarely is 

 cottonseed feed economical for northern farmers. (247) 



752. Cotton seed. While whole cotton seed was once commonly fed 

 to beef cattle in the South, but little is now used, both because of the 

 value of the seed for oil production and because cottonseed meal gives 

 uniformly better results than the whole seed. (245) For instance, in a 

 trial by Burns at the Texas Station 59 cottonseed meal was cheaper at $26 



"Sheets and Thompson, U. S. D. A. Farmers' Bui. 1179. 

 "Ward, U. S. D. A. Farmers' Bui. 655. 

 M U. S. D. A. Bui. 631; Ala. Bui. 158. 



"Iowa Station, Kennedy and Robbins, Breeder's Gaz. 58, 1910, p. 303; Burns, 

 Texas Bui. 198; Ward, Jerdan, and Lloyd, U. S. D. A. Bui. 761. 

 "Information to the authors. "Tex. Buls. 110, 159. 



