152 Feeds and Feeding. 



Swift & Company of Chicago informed the author that, while 

 cotton-seed meal makes good beef, a still better quality is produced 

 where the meal is fed with other concentrates. (535-7, 556, 566) 



192. Effects of cotton seed on fat. — At the Texas Station^ Har- 

 rington and Adriance found the kidney, caul, and body fats of 

 steers fed raw, roasted, or boiled cotton seed had a higher melting 

 point by 4.1°, 3.2°, and 8.7° C. respectively than the corresponding 

 fats of corn-fed steers. The influence of cotton-seed feeding on 

 butter and mutton suet was somewhat more marked than that pro- 

 duced on beef tallow. 



193. Cotton-seed hulls. — Cotton-seed hulls, containing somewhat 

 less digestible nutrients than oat straw, are extensively employed 

 at the South as roughage for cattle feeding. Where broken ker- 

 nels of seed adhere to the hulls their feeding value is consider- 

 ably increased. Conner of the South Carolina Station- found that 

 cotton-seed hulls have a little over one-half the feeding value of 

 corn stover. Lloyd of the Mississippi Station"* found that 1 lb. of 

 hulls was equal to 1.6 lbs. of corn silage in steer feeding. Craig 

 and Marshall of the Texas Station* showed cotton-seed hulls superior 

 to sorghum or cow-pea hay wdth steers getting cotton-seed meal for 

 concentrates. (556, 566) With corn or other concentrates rich in 

 carbohydrates, instead of with cotton-seed meal, their value would 

 have been lower. Michels of the North Carolina Station^ found that 

 dairy cows exhibited a strong dislike for cotton-seed hulls. (671) 



194. The poison of cotton seed. — Practical experience and trials 

 at the experiment stations unite in showing that cotton-seed meal is 

 not a safe feed in all cases. After a period of about 100 days steers 

 which have been closely confined and heavily fed on the meal 

 often show a staggering gait, some of them becoming blind, death 

 frequently ending their distress. The Iowa Station*^ reports the 

 death of 3 steers, and others becoming blind, in a feeding trial in 

 which a heavy allowance of corn-and-cob meal was fed with 2.5 lbs» 

 of cotton-seed meal. Hunt of the Pennsylvania Station^ reports the 

 death of 2 calves out of 3 from feeding a ration of 1 lb. of cotton- 

 seed meal with 16 lbs. of skim milk. Emery of the North Carolina 

 Station^ reports the death of 2 calves following the use of 0.25 to 

 0.5 lb. of cotton-seed meal daily with skim milk. Gips^ reports the 

 der.th of 3 out of 8 cattle from eating moldy cotton-seed cake. 



1 Bill. 29. 'Ept. 1905. ^ Bui. 199. ^ Bui. 17. 



^ Bui. 6G. ' Bui. 76. " Bui. 66. ' Bui. 109. 



» Arch. Wis., u. Prakt. Thierheilk, 14, 1886, p. 74. 



