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Other foods than grass may be inferior ; in fact, hay 

 which has been badly harvested, and cakes which have 

 become mouldy, are much more dangerous than poor 

 grass, and should, theoretically speaking, be avoided. 

 In practice, however, some use must generally be 

 made of them. It is then wise to feed them in small 

 quantities at a time, with much larger quantities of 

 clean and wholesome foods, otherwise digestive troubles 

 will most likely arise. 



Concentrates. When decorticated cotton cake and 

 soya-bean cake both of which are exceedingly rich in 

 albuminoids are fed to a larger extent than 4 Ibs. per 

 head per day to cattle, say, 18 months old or upwards, 

 there is danger of their suffering from digestive troubles 

 on account of the food being too concentrated. With 

 cattle under this age it is generally best to avoid giving 

 cotton cakes at all. If, however, they are fed in strict 

 moderation and with care, no serious result may follow. 



Scouring is a common complaint in the spring of 

 the year, when cattle and sheep feed on young, sappy 

 grass. Concentrates with a laxative tendency would 

 only aggravate the complaint, hence any concentrates 

 fed at this time should have the opposite tendency, 

 and probably no ordinary concentrate is more potent 

 in this direction than Bombay cotton cake. For calves, 

 however, fine wheat middlings should be used in place 

 of Bombay cotton cake. 



In the Edinburgh and East of Scotland Agricultural 

 College experiments/ sheep were actually fattened off 

 on roots and hay, but the mortality was higher than 

 was the case when concentrates were fed in addition to 

 roots and hay. 



On the other hand, "high feeding" is often attended 

 with serious results, more especially with breeding 



