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than to cattle or sheep. Along the coast of Maine, it is used 

 to some extent in feeding sheep, and to a considerable ex- 

 tent in feeding swine. 



Sundry meals. In addition to oil cake and meal and 

 cottonseed cake and meal, already discussed (see pp. 275, 

 283), are certain other kindred products more or less freely 

 fed in certain areas, but not much used as food for stock in 

 the United States or Canada. Prominent among these are 

 peanut meal, sunflower meal, cocoanut meal and palmnut 

 meal. All these are valuable chiefly as a source of protein and 

 a means of increasing the amount of the same in a ration. 

 As with oil meal and cottonseed meal, all these are valuable 

 for milk and meat production, and also in improving the 

 tone of the digestion when judiciously fed. But for work- 

 ing animals, no kind of oil meal can take the place of grain. 



Peanut meal, made from peanuts after the oil has been 

 expressed, is one of the richest among foods in protein. In 

 certain trials made it was found to have a feeding value 

 fully equal to beans. Owing to the rapid increase in the 

 growth of peanuts in the United States, and to the increase 

 in the manufacture of oil from the same, peanut meal may 

 yet become a food factor of considerable importance for 

 live stock in the southern states. 



Sunflower cake and meal are manufactured somewhat 

 extensively in Russia, and are prized as food for stock in 

 some of the countries of western Europe. As a source of 

 oil, however, sunflowers are not grown in the United States 

 to any appreciable extent, if indeed at all. Nor is their 

 growth for such a use likely to increase in the near future, 

 owing to the amount of hand labor called for in harvesting 

 the crop. The equivalent in food nutrients can be obtained 

 more cheaply in other forms. 



Cocoanut meal, sometimes called cocoa meal, is the res- 

 idue from the manufacture of cocoanut oil. This meal has 

 been found useful as a concentrate adjunct in feeding cat- 

 tle, sheep, swine and horses. The price restricts its use in 

 the United States. It is considerably used, however, in 



