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and lambs that are being fattened, cottonseed meal and 

 corn have been found to answer well in the South, when 

 oats are fed instead of corn in whole or in part until 

 the animals are on full feed. The safer plan is to start 

 them on oats and then to add corn gradually. After about 

 three weeks of feeding, add say l /4 pound of cottonseed 

 meal per day, and gradually increase the amount until the 

 meal ration consists of one part cottonseed meal and two 

 parts corn by weight. 



For swine, cottonseed meal is not an entirely safe 

 food when fed to them in any considerable quanti- 

 ties, and for a prolonged period, would seem to be a 

 conclusion justified by the results of experience and also 

 by those of experiment. It has been noticed that swine to 

 which cottonseed meal is fed for prolonged periods eventu- 

 ally begin to show lack of thrift, and finally a large pro- 

 portion of them sicken and die, unless the feeding of the 

 meal should be discontinued when the first symptoms of 

 sickness appear. These results sometimes follow, but not 

 in all instances, when the meal is obtained through the 

 medium of the droppings of cattle when cottonseed meal 

 forms a considerable proportion of the concentrate fed to 

 them. When only a small amount is fed, the injurious in- 

 fluences to the swine are seldom if ever manifested. Tbe 

 sickness in swine to which meal is fed directly, usually be- 

 gins in 30 to 50 days, according to the inherent vigor of the 

 animals, the amount fed, and the losses increase with the 

 prolongation of the feeding. If swine thus affected are re- 

 moved from cattle yards and fed on other food for a 

 few weeks, they may again be allowed to glean for a time 

 in the cattle yards without hazard. The symtoms of the 

 sickness include moping and sluggishness in the victims, a 

 tendency to lie apart and loss of appetite. There is labored 

 breathing and weak heart action. Post mortems have 

 shown that the digestive tract has been highly inflamed. 

 These results follow when not more than 25 per cent of the 

 regular ration is composed of cottonseed meal. Roasted 



