DESCRIPTION OF FEED STUFFS 



the commercial mash feeds for poultry. In experiments 

 conducted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, peanut 

 meal was used successfully to replace part of the meat 

 scrap the same as soy bean meal and cottonseed meal and 

 proved as efficient a food for poultry as soy bean meal but 

 not as good as cottonseed meal. Peanut meal is an espe- 

 cially valuable ingredient in fattening mashes. 



COCOANUT MEAL 



Cocoanut meal is the residue produced in manufac- 

 turing oil from the cocoanut and is considerably lower in 

 crude protein than linseed or cottonseed meal but contains 

 more crude protein and fat than bran and has a much 

 higher value as a stock feed than that product. No ex- 

 periments have been conducted with cocoanut meal for 

 poultry but a small per cent is sometimes used in commer- 

 cial mashes. Cocoanut meal by itself will turn rancid if 

 kept longer than a few weeks in warm weather but a small 

 amount in a commercial mash does not appear to depre- 

 ciate materially. 



COTTONSEED MEAL 



Cotton is one of the largest and most valuable crops 

 produced in this country and in 1918, 11,700,000 bales of 

 500 pounds each were raised in the .southern part of this 

 country. This crop gave about 6,000,000 tons of cotton- 

 seed as a by-product, and since a ton of cottonseed pro- 

 duces about 732 pounds of cake and meal, 841 pounds of 

 hulls, 280 pounds of crude oil and 27 pounds of linters 



75 



