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erable proportions in the Cotton States, but when 
its present condition is compared with its real 
possibilities, what we have already done is quite 
inconsiderable indeed. Meal and hulls make up 
the bulk of the required fattening ration. To 
combine these two feeding stuffs, put them about 
in proportion of one pound of meal to four of 
hulls. As soon as the taste is acquired, both feeds 
are eaten with eagerness and with relish. 
But best results are not obtained by this sort of 
feeding. Cattle, like ourselves, enjoy and profit 
by variety in food. Meal and hulls should be 
combined with other feeding materials such as 
ensilage, corn stover, cowpeas, hay, etc. 
We cannot go far in this study of the feeding 
value of cotton by-products without accepting the 
indisputable proposition that the South will never 
make the money from its great staple that it ought 
to make until we find on every farm feeding steers 
and other cattle to utilize the meal and hulls that 
we bring from the oil mill in exchange for our seed. 
EFFECT OF COTTONSEED MEAL ON STEER FAT 
Tests have been made in which cottonseed meal 
has been compared with corn and which show that 
meal produces a fat having a higher melting point 
than that of corn-fed steers. The evidence of 
butchers and packers is in favor of cottonseed- 
meal-fed cattle. 
The best quality of beef and beef fat, however, 
is produced when the animals get the meal in con- 
nection with other concentrates and roughage 
materials. 
