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meat scrap, that it produced flesh of fine flavor and texture, 

 and was more palatable when added to a basal ration of 

 ground oat meal than oil meal, meat scrap, mutton tallow, 

 beef fat, barley meal, or molasses. It was excelled in this 

 particular only by corn meal. 



Hartwell and Lichtenthaeler,' as the result of a rather 

 extensive comparison of cottonseed meal and meat scrap, 

 concluded that "If the constituents of bone are supplied, 

 there appears to be no reason why cottonseed meal may 

 not be used to furnish a considerable portion of the protein 

 required 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 

 scrap will be found more satisfactory, since the chicks con- 

 sumed more of the beef-scrap ration when allowed to have 

 all they would eat, and made a more rapid growth in con- 

 sequence. When limited to the same amount of nitrogen, 

 however, the gains were not very different whether cotton- 

 seed meal or beef scrap formed a prominent part of the 

 rations." 



Jeffrey,^ however, reports that in experiments including 

 Barred and Buff Plymouth Rock and Buff 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. Bolte' reports 

 that cottonseed meal is only 47 per cent, as efficient as a 

 source of protein as animal meal. There is further evidence 

 beariiig out Jeffrey's results, and the general opinion among 

 poultry feeders is that cottonseed is not a desirable feed, 

 Until a greater preponderance of decisive data is secured for 

 or against its use, it should be avoided, or at least used with 

 extreme caution. 



The average amounts of the nutrients found in 100 pounds 

 of cottonseed meal are 7.5 pounds of water, 6.2 pounds of 

 ash, 44.1 pounds of crude protein, 33.1 pounds of carbo- 



1 Rhode Island Bulletin No. 156. 



2 North Carolina Bulletin No. 211. 

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