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the feed to warrant the change. Milkmen in the vicinity 

 of large cities, and others who are obliged to purchase their 

 coarse feed, might find it to their advantage to use some of 

 this material, especially if it could be bought for less than a 

 good quality of hay. It is possible that animals would tire 

 of this feed sooner than of hay. The cows used by the sta- 

 tion consumed it continuously for over a month with no 

 seeming objections. The cotton-seed feed must be looked 

 upon from a feeding stand-point in the light of a hay substi- 

 tute, and not as a grain feed, and only 8 to 10 pounds should 

 be fed each animal daily, in place of a like amount of hay or 

 other coarse fodder. Southern rather than northern farmers 

 can utilize cotton-seed feed to the best advantage. 



The Experiments in Detail. 



In 1889 Stone * records the fact that increasing quantities 

 of cotton-seed hulls and various mixtures of hulls and cotton- 

 seed meal were being fed by the farmers of the south for 

 beef and milk production. Since 1889 a great variety of 

 digestion and beef-producing experiments have been made 

 by the North Carolina station, f which have been productive 

 of a large amount of information relative to the physiological 

 and economic value of cotton-seed feed. The Texas experi- 

 ment station ^ has made experiments with milch cows to 

 study the economic value of this feed in a variety of fodder 

 rations. 



In 1894 Armsby§ published the results of two experi- 

 ments with cotton-seed feed. In the first experiment the 

 cows, five in number, were fed as follows : Ration I. con- 

 sisted daily of 7.95 pounds of wheat bran and 11.69 pounds 

 of cotton-seed feed ; while Ration II. contained 3 pounds of 

 cotton-seed meal, 7 pounds of corn meal, 6 pounds of corn 

 fodder and 3.27 pounds of hay. Practically, the corn meal 

 and cotton-seed meal of the second ration were matched 

 against the bran, and cotton-seed meal contained in the 

 cotton-seed feed of the first ration, leaving the corn fodder 



* Tennessee Experiment Station, Vol. II., No. 3, 1889. 



t Bulletins SOc, 81, 87d, 93, 97, 106, 109, 118. 



+ Bulletin 33, 1894. 



§ Report Pennsylvania Experiment Station, page 44, 1894. 



