152 Feeds and Feeding. 



Swift & Company of Chicago informed the author that, while 

 cotton-seed meal makes good beef, a still better quality is produced 

 where the meal is fed with other concentrates. (535-7, 556, 566) 



192. Effects of cotton seed on fat. At the Texas Station 1 Har- 

 rington and Adriance found the kidney, caul, and body fats of 

 steers fed raw, roasted, or boiled cotton seed had a higher melting 

 point by 4.1, 3.2, and 8.7 C. respectively than the corresponding 

 fats of corn-fed steers. The influence of cotton-seed feeding on 

 butter and mutton suet was somewhat more marked than that pro- 

 duced on beef tallow. 



193. Cotton-seed hulls. Cotton-seed hulls, containing somewhat 

 less digestible nutrients than oat straw, are extensively employed 

 at the South as roughage for cattle feeding. Where broken ker- 

 nels of seed adhere to the hulls their feeding value is consider- 

 ably increased. Conner of the South Carolina Station 2 found that 

 cotton-seed hulls have a little over one-half the feeding value of 

 corn stover. Lloyd of the Mississippi Station 3 found that 1 Ib. of 

 hulls was equal to 1.6 Ibs. of corn silage in steer feeding. Craig 

 and Marshall of the Texas Station 4 showed cotton-seed hulls superior 

 to sorghum or cow-pea hay with steers getting cotton-seed meal for 

 concentrates. (556, 566) With corn or other concentrates rich in 

 carbohydrates, instead of with cotton-seed meal, their value would 

 have been lower. Michels of the North Carolina Station 5 found that 

 dairy cows exhibited a strong dislike for cotton-seed hulls. (671) 



194. The poison of cotton seed. Practical experience and trials 

 at the experiment stations unite in showing that cotton-seed meal is 

 not a safe feed in all cases. After a period of about 100 days steers 

 which have been closely confined and heavily fed on the meal 

 often show a staggering gait, some of them becoming blind, death 

 frequently ending their distress. The Iowa Station 6 reports the 

 death of 3 steers, and others becoming blind, in a feeding trial in 

 which a heavy allowance of corn-and-cob meal was fed with 2.5 Ibs. 

 of cotton-seed meal. Hunt of the Pennsylvania Station 7 reports the 

 death of 2 calves out of 3 from feeding a ration of 1 Ib. of cotton- 

 seed meal with 16 Ibs. of skim milk. Emery of the North Carolina 

 Station 8 reports the death of 2 calves following the use of 0.25 to 

 0.5 Ib. of cotton-seed meal daily with skim milk. Gips 9 reports the 

 death of 3 out of 8 cattle from eating moldy cotton-seed cake. 



1 Bui. 29. 8 Ept. 1905. 5 Bui. 199. 7 Bui. 17. 



2 Bui. 66. 4 Bui. 76. 8 Bui. 66. 8 Bui. 109. 

 8 Arch. Wis.. u. Prakt. Thierheilk, 14, 1886, p. 74. 



