Feeding Value of Cotton Cake and Meal. 41 



never recovered from the check it received through the 

 stripping. 



From these experiments, therefore, it would appear that the 

 poorer the development of the crop the worse is the effect of 

 stripping. On this point Mr. Hall observes : " Stripping in 

 some form or other is a necessary operation in a hop g'arden,, 

 otherwise it would be difficult to keep the lower leaves and 

 laterals free from vermin ; attacks of mould also are nearly 

 always first seen on the lower parts of the plant. At the 

 same time this lower growth, if left, shades the ground and 

 prevents the access of sun and air, conditions which favour 

 the development of mould. Necessary as stripping may be, 

 the experiments show that it may cause a serious and even a 

 disastrous diminution of crop ; it is desirable that growers 

 should give the operation a little more consideration than it 

 usually receives, and in seasons when the bine is slack and 

 the plant is not growing freely it is necessary not to strip so 

 far up the plant as usual, or to go over the garden twice, the 

 first time stripping only for two or three feet, the operations 

 being completed after a fortnight's interval." 



Feeding Value of Cotton Cake and Cotton Seed 



Meal. 



During the past winter an experiment was carried out 

 at the Lledwigan Farm, attached to the University College 

 of North Wales, Bangor, to determine the relative feeding 

 values for cattle of decorticated cotton cake and cotton seed 

 meal. Eight Welsh bullocks, two and a half years old, were 

 divided into two lots of four for the purpose of the experi- 

 ment. These animals were put into boxes at the end of 

 November, and fed alike until the experiment commenced on 

 December 1st. The common daily ration of each beast in 

 both lots throughout the experiment consisted of 4 lb- of 

 maize meal, 5 lb. of long hay, with pulped swedes, straw, 

 and hay chaff ad lib., and there was practically no difference- 

 in the amounts of these foods consumed by the two lots. 



