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cattle that are being fattened along with Bermuda hay, it 

 has produced meat even more cheaply than when fed as 

 meal, but larger gains have been obtained from feeding it 

 steamed, and also from feeding in some combinations along 

 with other concentrates. The comparative profit, however, 

 from feeding cotton seed as compared with cottonseed 

 meal, will depend on the relative prices of the two. Being 

 an exceedingly concentrated food, ordinarily not more than 

 four to five pounds of the daily ration are composed of cot- 

 ton seed, the other portion of the grain or meal being made 

 up from some other concentrate, but in some instances, in 

 the cotton states, more than 10 pounds of the seed are fed 

 daily. Cattle have been successfully fattened on cotton seed 

 and cotton seed hulls without hay. Excellent results follow 

 the feeding of raw cotton seed, a moderate amount of corn, 

 corn silage and Bermuda hay. 



For cozvs in milk, cotton seed has been found even 

 more profitable than when fed for meat, owing, doubtless to 

 its high protein content. It is more commonly fed to dairy 

 cows in the form of meal, but in instances not a few, is fed 

 raw or steamed. At the Mississippi experiment station, 

 butter made by feeding boiled cotton seed, Bermuda hay 

 and silage stood first in cheapness of production, that from 

 raw cotton seed and the same adjuncts came second and 

 that made from cottonseed meal and these adjuncts was 

 third. Here also, relative profit from feeding the seed and 

 meal will depend uppn relative values. The claim has been 

 made, and it is probably correct, that no cheaper feed for 

 producing milk can be fed in the southern states. For milk 

 production as much as 10 pounds per day per cow have in 

 some instances been fed, but the aim should be rather to 

 feed not more than half the quantity named in prolonged 

 feeding and to add some other concentrate, preferably one 

 grown in the South. It would seem probable that in the fu- 

 ture, cotton seed will be more and more fed as meal rather 

 than as seed, as the value of the oil pressed from seed is 

 greater for some other uses than as food for stock. 



