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them to avoid most of the losses. If cottonseed meal is 

 not fed continuously for over 40 days and does not form 

 over one-fourth of the ration, and if pigs are freely supplied 

 with green forage or grazed on pasture, the risk from this 

 feed is slight. It is considered safe to have pigs follow 

 steers which are being fed cottonseed meal, for the meal 

 does not seem to be poisonous after passing through the 

 cattle. Care should always be taken that the steers do 

 not throw so much meal out of the feed boxes that the 

 pigs may be poisoned by eating such waste meal." 



Although a considerable number of pigs are commer- 

 cially fattened every year on distillery slops as they 

 come direct from the factory, the dried products are gen- 

 erally to be regarded as not well adapted to swine. Dried 

 distillers' and brewers' grains are high in their content 

 of fiber, which is the principal reason why they are not 

 suitable when fed in any quantity to growing and fatten- 

 ing pigs. In addition, they are not very palatable. How- 

 ever, they are nitrogenous, carrying as much as 23 to 

 27 per cent protein, and when fed in small proportions 

 with corn, better results are usually obtained than from 

 corn alone. 1 



MOLASSES 



To determine the possibility of partially substituting 

 cane, or black-strap molasses for corn, Burns 2 conducted 

 at the Texas Station a dry lot feeding experiment with 

 three groups of pigs. This test was prompted by the 

 increasing price of corn and the similarity in chemical 



i Ky. Exp. Sta., Bull. 190. 2 Bull. 131. 



