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two feeds are used together ; and, second, the meat and the lard of the 

 animal are hardened more rapidly than when corn is used alone. 

 (F. B. 411.) 



In feeding cotton-seed meal to pigs the daily allowance in gen- 

 eral should be arrived at from the age and weight of the animals. 

 For continuous feeding the following allowances appear to be well 

 within the danger limit: Pigs under 50 pounds, one-fourth pound 

 per day ; pigs from 50 to 75 pounds, one-third pound per day ; pigs 

 from 75 to 100 pounds, .4 pound per day; pigs from 100 to 150 

 pounds, one-half pound per day. If fed a full grain allowance, the 

 dosage may be obtained by properly proportioning the cotton-seed' 

 meal to the other components of the ration, namely, 1 to 5, 6, 7, or 

 8, according to the stage of growth. When pigs obtain part of their 

 feed by grazing a proportion of 1 to 4 or 1 to 5 can be fed by dimin- 

 ishing the grain allowance. A meal ration containing cotton-seed 

 meal should also contain at least an equal amount of wheat bran to 

 supply bulk. For the remainder corn appears to be the only choice. 



The idea that cotton food products can ever take the place of 

 corn in pork production in the south may well be abandoned. They 

 can not replace but may prove valuable adjuncts to corn or any other 

 starchy or carbohydrate food which may be found available in the 

 south for hog feeding. (Ark. B. 85.) 



As a rule pigs do not die when fed a grain ration containing cot- 

 ton-seed meal if the cotton-seed meal is not continued longer than 

 four weeks, although it sometimes happens that they do. No case 

 has come under the notice of the writers where a pig has died if the 

 cotton-eeed meal mixture has not been continued longer than three 

 weeks. As a rule, if small pigs are shut up in a small pen and fed a 

 grain mixture containing cotton-seed meal to the amount of one- 

 fourth to one-fifth, all the pigs will die inside of eight to ten weeks. 

 But this experiment, and others elsewhere, show that there are excep- 

 tions to this. From preliminary work done <by this station, and other 

 work under way, it looks as if a ration containing from one-fifth to 

 one-tenth cotton-seed meal may be fed in light rations for an indefi- 

 nite time, if the pigs are running on a green range. (Ok. B. 51.) 



When corn was supplemented with a partial ration of cotton- 

 seed meal the daily gains and the financial outcome were satisfactory. 

 Four deaths occurred as a result of the use of cotton-seed meal, but 

 these deaths did not occur while the animals were eating the meal. 

 All of the deaths have occurred soon after the animals were taken off 

 of cotton-seed meal and placed upon a ration which contained no 

 cotton-seed meal. This suggests the idea that cotton-seed meal may 

 be stimulating in its effects similar to the action of certain drugs 

 and when it is removed suddenly from the animals that death may 

 occur through depression. (Ala. B. 143.) 



Cotton-seed meal may be profitably used to finish hogs for mar- 

 ket. In such cases it may be safely fed in quantities of one-half 

 pounds per pig daily and then omitted during periods of alternate 

 weeks. (Ken. B. 101.) 



