FEEDING EXPERIMENTS WITH BEEF CATTLE. 



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Amount of Cottonseed Meal Fed. 



While the average amount of cottonseed meal fed daily each year was 

 about the same, as will be seen from table 2, the increase was not so 

 rapid the first year as the second, and the total quantity fed during the 

 last few weeks of the feeding period during the first year was greater 

 than the amount fed during the corresponding period the second year. 

 Practically the same amount of meal was fed per steer each year, but 

 the distribution was different. In each case, however, the amount fed at 

 first was very small, and gradually this was increased to a full ration. 

 There was no evidence at any time during the feeding periods that the 

 cottonseed meal had any detrimental effect on the steers unless it was 

 the decreased gains which came toward the last. This, however, is a 

 natural condition during the latter stages of fattening with all feeds, 

 although it is true to a greater extent with cottonseed meal than with 

 other feeds. 



FIG. 3 Steers fed cottonseed meal and corn silage in 1909-1910. 



The amount of cottonseed meal that may be fed most profitably will 

 be discussed in a subsequent bulletin. The writer is working on this 

 problem and considers it an important field for experimental work. In 

 table 2 is shown the average amount of cottonseed meal which was fed 

 daily to each of the steers in the three lots. 



TABLE 2 SHOWING THE AVERAGE AMOUNT IN POUNDS OF COTTONSEED MEAL FED 

 PER STEER BY MONTHS, INCLUDING THE PRELIMINARY PERIOD. 



