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combination with some farinaceous matter, such as Indian meal, 

 crushed oats, or wheat, bran, &c. As a milk, butter, and flesh 

 producer, it stands unrivalled, owing to the heavy percentage ol 

 flesh-forming (nitrogenous) materials it contains. It should never, 

 for this reason, be given to stock under one year old, except with 

 the greatest caution and judgment ; and should not on any account 

 be used for cows on the point of calving, nor for a month after, 

 as the milk with such feeding is too rich, and brings on diarrhoea — white 

 scour — (par. 333) when given to young calves. The manurial residue 

 of decorticated cotton cake is also valuable, and is estimated at 

 £■3) 14s. gd. per ton of food consumed ; in fact, it stands without 

 a rival for the renovation and improvement of old laid grazing 

 pastures. In the course of a couple of years or so, given in anything 

 like liberal quantities, it has a marked effect, both on the quantity and 

 quality of the herbage. 



391. Undecorticated Cotton Cake is extensively made in 

 England ; in this case the husk and the kernel are ground together. 

 The best qualities are manufactured from Egyptian seed, and command 

 the highest prices. Even the best class of these, however, show but 

 a poor analysis compared with decorticated cake, as the following 

 analvses indicates : — 



Moisture 



Oil 



"Albuminous Compounds 



Starch, Sugar, and Carbonaceous Compounds 

 Phosphates 



Undecorticated 

 Cotton Cake. 



11-24 



6-54 

 21-62 



55-97 

 463 



Insoluble Matters . . traces 



"Containing Nitrogen 3-46 



I2-l6 



674 

 22 12 



5405 



4-93 



traces 



100 00 



3*54 



Decorticated 

 Cotton Cake. 



7"io 

 i4'o8 



44-37 



27-81 



6-64 



traces 



7*io 



8-IO 

 13-50 

 4i"26 

 30 80 



634 

 traces 



10000 



6-64 



392. Undecorticated cotton cake is largely used in some districts. 

 In early spring, wlien the grasses are young, it has a good effect, 

 owing to the tannic acid it contains preventing looseness of the bowels 

 in cattle, but it should ahvays be used fresh. Therefore, laygc stocks, 



