214 PRINCIPLES OF FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



to buy the better grades of cottonseed meal at a higher price, 

 rather than pay the freight on the hulls, which have Uttle 

 value as a feed. 



Cottonseed hulls are an important by-product in the 

 South, where they are used as a roughage. They are little 

 fed in the corn-belt except as they are used as an adulterant 

 of cottonseed meal. They often may be used economically 

 as a part of the roughage of the ration when hay is very 

 expensive. Their feeding value is somewhat less than that 

 of straw. 



Cottonseed hull bran consists of the hulls, free from 

 lint and finely ground. The feeding value is about the 

 same as that of ordinary cottonseed hulls. 



MISCELLANEOUS OIL BY-PRODUCTS 



Peanut cake, or meal is the residue after the extraction 

 of the oil from the peanut. Inasmuch as it contains about 

 48 per cent of crude protein when hulled, it is very valuable 

 as a nitrogenous supplement. It is used little in this country, 

 but is used extensively in Europe. 



Soybean cake, or meal is the residue after the extraction 

 of the oil from soybeans. It contains about 43 per cent of 

 protein and is as valuable for feeding as cottonseed meal. 

 It is imported from China and Japan and used to a consider- 

 able extent along the Pacific coast, particularly as a feed 

 for dairy cows and for poultry, although it may be used for 

 the other farm animals. It is not used to any extent in the 

 East and Middle West. 



Coconut cake, or meal is the residue remaining after 

 extraction of the oil from the dried meat of the coconut. 

 It is used some in the East but more extensively on the Pacific 



