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contains. The main reason for its present limited used as a stock 

 feed is, however, that the seed can generally be sold for a good price 

 at the oil mills, or exchanged for cottonseed meal at the rate of 800 

 pounds per ton of seed. Direct experiments with fattening steers 

 and dairy cows at Southern experiment stations have shown that it 

 requires approximately 2 pounds of cotton seed to equal 1 pound of 

 cottonseed meal in feeding value. Boiled or roasted cotton seed 

 has been found to produce larger gains and to be -more palatable 

 and less laxative than raw seed, but the. gains made are more 

 expensive owing to the cost of preparing the seed. Moldy or heated 

 seed should never be used for feeding farm animals. It is • only under 

 exceptional conditions that cotton seed is now fed to farm stock, 

 having been largely replaced by cottonseed meal for this purpose. 18 



References: Montgomery, "Productive Farm Crops," Philadelphia, 

 1918. Farmers' Bulletin 16, "Leguminous Plants for Green Manuring 

 and Feeding," 1894. 18, "Forage Plants for the South," 1894. 102, 

 " Southern Forage Plants," 1899. 300, " Some Important Grasses and 

 Forage Plants for the Gulf Coast Region," 1907. 331, " Forage Crops for 

 Hogs in Kansas and Oklahoma, .1908. 147, "Winter Forage Crops for the 

 South," 1902. 502, " Timothy Production on Irrigated Land in the North- 

 west," 1912. 509, "Forage Crops for the Cotton Region," 1915. 271, "For- 

 age Crop Practices in Western Oregon and Western Washington," 1906. 

 462, "Logged-ofT Land for Pasture in West Oregon and Washington." 

 1125, "Forage for the Cotton Belt," 1920. 420, "Oats, Distribution and 

 Uses," 1910. 436, "Winter Oats for the South," 1911. 427, "Barley 

 Culture in the Southern States," 1910. 518, " Barley Culture," 1912. 968, 

 " Cultivation and Utilization of Barley," 1918. 724, " The Feeding of Grain 

 Sorghums to Livestock," 1916. 972, "How to Use Sorghum Grain," 1918. 

 1137, "Grain Sorghums: How to Grow Them," 1920. 973, "Soy Bean: Its 

 Culture and Uses," 1918. 



Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletins 4, "Range Improvement in Arizona," 

 1902. 12, "Stock Ranges in Northern California." 15, "Forage Condi- 

 tions on the Northern Border of the Great Basin," 1902. 31, " Cultivated 

 Forage Crops of the Northwestern States," 1902. 38, " Forage Conditions 

 and Problems in Eastern Washington and Oregon, atid Northwestern 

 California and Nevada," 1903. 59, " Pasture, Meadow, and Forage Crops 

 in Nebraska," 1904. 67, "Range Investigations in Arizona," 1904. 117, 

 "Reseeding of Depleted Range and Native Pastures. Cir..49, Improvement 

 of Pastures in Eastern N. Y. and the New England States." 



U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 12, "Grasses and Forage Plants, and Forage Con- 

 ditions in the Eastern Rocky Mountain States"; U. S. Dept. Agr. Year- 

 book, 1915, p. 299. '' 



QUESTIONS 



1. What are the main cereal grains used for feeding farm animals? 



2. Give the classes of animals to which each kind is preferably fed; their 



average chemical composition and relative feeding values. 



13 Farmers' Bulletin 36 ; Office Exp. Stations, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 33 ; 

 Miss. Bui. 60. 



