296 COTTON 



EASE OF FATTENING BEEVES WITH COTTONSEED 



MEAL 



Beef that meets the ideal for the plate must con- 

 tain lean meat as well as fat. To give the highest 

 satisfaction it must be marbled have both lean 

 and fat. Lean meat comes from the protein of the 

 food, fat from the fat and carbohydrates of the 

 food. This being the case, cottonseed meal and 

 hulls possess the three materials for making beef 

 possessing these two qualities. It is impossible 

 to make better beef than when the cattle are given 

 meal and hulls combined with corn ensilage or 

 corn stover. 



HOW CORN AND MEAL COMPARE AS FATTENING 



FOODS 



In the popular mind corn represents the highest 

 ideal as a grain and fattening food. On many 

 farms meal is exchanged for Western corn, the 

 owner thinking the latter a superior food, in fact 

 regarding it as indispensable for live stock of any 

 kind; and so he disposes of his home grown prod- 

 ucts rich in digestible nutrients and high in fer- 

 tilizing materials, buys corn in exchange (with 

 freight charges and dealer's profits added) corn 

 being indeed a food of high quality for fattening 

 purposes, but very low indeed in fertilizing value. 



What are the facts on this point as revealed by 

 feeding tests ? 



In Station tests, one pound of cottonseed has been 

 found to equal in feeding value beef producing 

 value 1.13 pounds of corn meal; in other words, 

 for feeding beef cattle preparatory to the market, 

 cottonseed is superior to corn meal. 



