340 POULTRY PRODUrriON 



beef fat, l)Mrle\' meal, or molasses. It was excelled in this 

 partieular (Hily hy corn meal. 



Ilartwell and Lichtenthaeler,^ as the result of a rather 

 extensive comparison of cottonseed meal and meat scrap, 

 concluded that "If the constituents of hone are supplied, 

 there appears to lie no reason why cottonseed meal may 

 not he used to furnish a considerable portion of the protein 

 rec(uircd by chicks, especially if a moderate consumption of 

 food is satisfactory to the feeder. If the most rapid growth 

 is desired, regardless of the amount of feed consumed, beef 

 sera]) will be found more satisfactory, since the chicks con- 

 sumed more of the Ijcef-scrap ration \\hen allowed to have 

 all they would cat, and made a more ra])id growth in con- 

 sccjuence. ^^'hen limited to the same amount of nitrogen, 

 however, the gains were not very different whether cotton- 

 seed meal or beef scraj) formed a ])rominent part of the 

 rations." 



Jeffrey,- ho\ve\"er, reports tliat in ex[)eriments including 

 Barred and Buff Plymouth Ilock and Butf Orpington pullets, 

 cottonseed meal was not relished and the birds ate sparingly 

 of mash containing it. The pullets were slower in developing 

 and coming into laying when the main source of protein was 

 cottonseed meal than when it was meat meal. Philips^ 

 re])orts that Leghorn ]>ullets fed cottonseed meal as the chief 

 priiteiu ((nicciitrate, deri\"ed practically no benefit from it, 

 laying nt> bdlrv than birds fed no jirotciu (•(iiiccntrate of any 

 kind, I'ullcts rccci\"ing their ]ii-i)tcin mainly from cotton- 

 seed iiieiil Li:i\c an average annual ])roduction of o.3.(iO eggs, 

 \\ liile ])ullels feci mi a ration in which "i.:! jxiunds of cottonseed 

 meal was i-eplaceil by ")(( ])ounds of buitei'iuilk, ga\cana\'erage 

 amiua.l |irodu(iion of KiCi.ST eggs. There is further c\'idcnee 

 bearing out .lell rev's residts, and the geuei'al opinion among 

 ])oultry feedi-rh is that cottonseed is not a desirable feed, 

 Pntil a greater ])i-eponderanee of (U'cisixt' data is secured for 

 or against its use, it should be a\-oided, or at least used with 

 extreme caution. 



' lihodi" Island Bullotin No. lof,. 

 2 North Carolina Bulletin Nf.. 211. 

 ' I'urdu.j BuUi'tiii, N.J. 227. 



