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For calves, cotton seed is usually fed in the form of 

 meal. As they become more advanced in age, however, it 

 may be fed to them raw or steamed, and thus also it may be 

 used with advantage as a source of protein in growing 

 young cattle, more especially when the fodder is made up 

 largely of corn stalks and the non-saccharine sorghums. 



To shevp, cotton seed in the raw form is fed freely 

 when fattening them in proximity to the mills, and is a 

 good fattening food fed along with Bermuda or other hay, 

 or even along with the hulls in lieu of roughage feeding 

 three to four pounds of hulls to one pound of the seed. It 

 has not been much fed to breeding ewes, but doubtless it 

 would be perfectly legitimate to feed it to them in moderate 

 quantities. 



To swine, it is not common to feed cotton seed in any 

 form, but when so fed it is usually in the form of meal. In 

 the unground form it is not well suited to the digestion of 

 swine, even though it should not injure them, as the meal 

 does in prolonged feeding (see p. 278). At the Texas ex- 

 periment station, even when fed boiled, the mortality of the 

 animals eating it was 25 per cent. 



To horses, neither cotton seed nor cottonseed meal 

 have been much fed. The meal has been fed with safety 

 to working horses to the extent of one to two pounds a day, 

 and it would seem reasonable to suppose that at least as 

 large amounts of the raw seed could be fed without hazard. 



Sunflower seed. The sunflower calls for a climate 

 somewhat similar to that required by corn. This means 

 that it can be grown successfully in nearly all parts of the 

 United States that are tillable, and also in several of the 

 provinces of Canada. The yields from reasonably good 

 crops are about 2,000 pounds per acre. The growing of the 

 plant calls for about the same amount of labor as the grow- 

 ing of a crop of corn, and the yield of the grain is not far 

 different. The seed is also possessed of high feeding value. 

 Notwithstanding, the growing of sunflowers as food for 



