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COTTON 
EASE OF FATTENING BEEVES WITH COTTONSEED 
MEAL 
Beef that meets the ideal for the plate must con- 
tain lean meat as well as fat. To give the highest 
satisfaction it must be marbled — have both lean 
and fat. Lean meat comes from the protein of the 
food, fat from the fat and carbohydrates of the 
food. This being the case, cottonseed meal and 
hulls possess the three materials for making beef 
possessing these two qualities. It is impossible 
to make better beef than when the cattle are given 
meal and hulls combined with corn ensilage or 
corn stover. 
HOW CORN AND MEAL COMPARE AS FATTENING 
FOODS 
In the popular mind corn represents the highest 
ideal as a grain and fattening food. On many 
farms meal is exchanged for Western corn, the 
owner thinking the latter a superior food, in fact 
regarding it as indispensable for live stock of any 
kind; and so he disposes of his home grown prod- 
ucts rich in digestible nutrients and high in fer- 
tilizing materials, buys corn in exchange (with 
freight charges and dealer's profits added) corn 
being indeed a food of high quality for fattening 
purposes, but very low indeed in fertilizing value. 
What are the facts on this point as revealed by 
feeding tests ? 
In Station tests, one pound of cottonseed has been 
found to equal in feeding value — beef producing 
value — 1.13 pounds of corn meal; in other words, 
for feeding beef cattle preparatory to the market, 
cottonseed is superior to corn meal. 
