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it needs quickening, and when it is good practice to 

 feed a heavy ration of highly concentrated feeds. It 

 gives a finish to the hair and skin that attracts buyers. 

 An experiment is needed to determine whether or not 

 these same ends would be reached and time saved in the 

 fattening by feeding the oil meal or cottonseed meal 

 during the first rather than the last part of the feeding 

 period; and, again, whether the meal to be fed during 

 the last sixty clays would not accomplish more if dis- 

 tributed in smaller daily rations throughout the whole 

 of the feeding period. The writer has observed that 

 there is a very marked difference in the way cattle 

 getting oil meal and those that do not, go on feed. Those 

 getting corn only seem to start much more slowly than 

 those getting some nitrogenous concentrates from the 



beginning. 



OATS IN CATTLE FEEDING 



Oats are an excellent food for fattening cattle when 

 the price will permit their use, but their feeding value, 

 pound for pound, is no higher than that of corn, hence 

 they can not be used extensively when higher in price 

 per pound than corn. Being rather bulky, they are good 

 to mix with cornmeal in the absence of the cob or other 

 bulky material. They are not as fattening as corn and 

 should be used as a supplement to rather than a substi- 

 tute for corn. They make an excellent food for growing 

 stock. Oats are valued very highly by a large number 

 of cattle feeders to supplement corn in starting calves 

 intended for finishing as baby beeves. 



MOLASSES 



Molasses is strictly a carbonaceous food, belonging 

 in the same class as corn and similar feeds. It has come 

 to be regarded as a valuable feed for fattening cattle, 

 especially in the sugar-producing regions of the country 

 where it is obtained cheaply as a by-product from the 

 manufacture of sugar. In the manufacture of sugar it 

 is impossible to get all the sugar to crystallize out of 



