154 THE MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF CATTLE 



roughness 30 to 40 pounds corn or sorghum ensilage 

 and 5 pounds of the legume, which may be clo^'er, alfalfa, 

 01 cowpea hay. As concentrate, feed from 2 to 5 pounds 

 cottonseed meal, the balance being corn on the ear, 

 shelled, or ground, and so fed that the whole amount 

 of grain shall not exceed 15 pounds an animal daily at 

 any time. Begin with 2 to 4 pounds daily and increase 

 so that the animals will be getting 8 to 10 pounds at the 

 end of 60 days. At first the mixture should be half corn, 

 and this should be gradually increased so that at the 

 end of 60 davs two-thirds shall be corn. If whole corn 

 is fed, swine should glean amid the droppings. As much 

 as 3 pounds daily of cottonseed meal may be fed without 

 hazard to the swine. If the above ration should tend 

 to undue laxit}' in the digestion, a very little corn fodder 

 fed dry will act as a corrective. This ration may be 

 fed with advantage in all the southern states, and, pos- 

 sibl}', in those adjacent to them. 



For states far south and southwest, that is, the best 

 cotton-growing centers, the favorite ration at the present 

 time is cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls, fed directly 

 in boxes and without protection for the cattle. The 

 daily average ration covering the feeding period would 

 be 6 pounds of the meal fed with from three to four 

 times its weight of cottonseed hulls, the proportion of 

 the hulls being decreased with the advance of the feed- 

 ing period. Less than 2 pounds of cottonseed meal 

 should be fed daily at first, but, of course, enough hulls 

 ^hould be fed to satisfy the animals. Black strap 

 molasses, spread over the food in the feed boxes, serves 

 the triple purpose of preventing the food from lifting 

 with the winds, of adding to its relish, and of aiding 

 directly in the fattening. In the absence of ensilage, in 

 the far southwestern states, 3 pounds of cottonseed meal 

 mixed with about all the Kafir corn that the animals will 

 eat safel}-, is a fa\-orite ration. The fodder usually fed 

 is sorghum or Kafir corn threshed or unthreshed. 



