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Feeds and Feeding. 



II. BY-PRODUCTS OF THE MILLS AND FACTORIES. 



535. Cotton seed v. cotton-seed meal. Marshall and Burns of 

 the Texas Station 1 divided one hundred 3-yr.-old grade Short-horn 

 steers of good quality and averaging 1,115 Ibs. into 2 lots of 50 each, 

 feeding them for 84 days on the rations shown in the table. 



Cotton seed v. cotton-seed meal when fed with kafir stover. 



It is seen that the steers getting cotton seed made the very large 

 gain of 3.1 Ibs. each daily, or 0.7 Ib. more than those getting cotton- 

 seed meal. The shrinkage of Lot I on shipping was 9.2 and of Lot II 

 7.5 per ct. In this trial with kafir stover for the roughage, cotton 

 seed at $12 per ton proved more profitable than cotton-seed meal at 

 $26 per ton. 



At the same Station 2 Burns compared cotton seed and cotton-seed 

 meal in a 90-day trial with 2 lots, each of 6 high grade Aberdeen- 

 Angus steers averaging 963 Ibs. Each lot was fed 16.0 Ibs. of kafir 

 chop and 12.8 Ibs. of cotton-seed hulls per head daily in addition to 

 cotton seed or cotton-seed meal, with the following results: 



Cotton seed v. cotton-seed meat for fattening steers. 



1 Bui. 97. 



2 Bui. 110. 



