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erable proportions in the Cotton States, but when 

 its present condition is compared with its real 

 possibilities, what we have already done is quite 

 inconsiderable indeed. Meal and hulls make up 

 the bulk of the required fattening ration. To 

 combine these two feeding stuffs, put them about 

 in proportion of one pound of meal to four of 

 hulls. As soon as the taste is acquired, both feeds 

 are eaten with eagerness and with relish. 



But best results are not obtained by this sort of 

 feeding. Cattle, like ourselves, enjoy and profit 

 by variety in food. Meal and hulls should be 

 combined with other feeding materials such as 

 ensilage, corn stover, cowpeas, hay, etc. 



We cannot go far in this study of the feeding 

 value of cotton by-products without accepting the 

 indisputable proposition that the South will never 

 make the money from its great staple that it ought 

 to make until we find on every farm feeding steers 

 and other cattle to utilize the meal and hulls that 

 we bring from the oil mill in exchange for our seed. 



EFFECT OF COTTONSEED MEAL ON STEER FAT 



Tests have been made in which cottonseed meal 

 has been compared with corn and which show that 

 meal produces a fat having a higher melting point 

 than that of corn-fed steers. The evidence of 

 butchers and packers is in favor of cottonseed- 

 meal-fed cattle. 



The best quality of beef and beef fat, however, 

 is produced when the animals get the meal in con- 

 nection with other concentrates and roughage 

 materials. 



