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388. Good linseed cake is one of the best balanced foods we have, 

 and is of great value for feeding cattle and young stock, especially 

 in winter. It is also a useful feed for milch cows, though it is more 

 a fat-producing than a milk-producing food. Another recommendation 

 in favour of linseed cake is, that cattle fed upon it invariably enjoy 

 good health, and are not liable to contract skin or other diseases. 

 For a Horse thriving badly, with an unhealthy, ragged, dingy-looking 

 coat, a handful each of crushed, pure linseed cake and whole Canadian 

 peas, given night and morning, mixed with corn and bran, has a 

 splendid effect. For the Cow, linseed cake may be given at the rate of 

 from three to nine pounds per day, with the best possible results ; 

 whilst a young calf, six to eight weeks old, may receive it in quantities 

 of from three to four ounces, with a little crushed oats and bran daily, 

 the quantity being gradually increased as the calf grows older. 



389. Decorticated Cotton Cake.— Cotton cake is placed on the 

 market in two forms — decoificatai and iivdecoiticated. The decorticated 

 form is chiefly made in America, as the husk of the cotton seed can 

 best be removed when the seed is green. The cake is then manu- 

 factured from the seed or kernel. For analysis of a good sample of 

 decorticated cotton cake sec par. 391 . 



390. Like linseed, cotton seeds are crushed for the oil they contain, 

 and, of late, greatly improved machinery for this purpose has been 

 devised. Decorticated cotton cakes are generally very hard, so much 

 so that farmers are almost afraid to use them. This causes some 

 dealers to have their decorticated cake made into meal, an expedient 

 which increases the risks to feeders, for the meal, when kept too 

 long in closely-packed bags, becomes heated and perhaps mouldy, 

 when it is dangerous to stock (par. 325). Great care is, therefore, 

 necessary for the buyer not to purchase too much of the ground 

 article at once. Decorticated cotton cake is also very dangerous 

 when it has been damaged at sea, for the same reasons as those urged 

 against the mouldy meal. Numerous cases are on record, where 

 numbers of cattle have died from the effects of eating moulded 

 decorticated cotton cake. This cake should always be used in 



