UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 761 
Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry 
JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief 
Washington, D. C. Vv 3 April 7, 1919 
A COMPARISON OF CONCENTRATES FOR FATTEN- 
ING STEERS IN THE SOUTH. 
By W. F. Warp and S. 8. Jerpan, Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal 
Industry, and E..R. Luoyp, Director of Mississippi Experiment Station.' 
I. The Comparative Value of Cottonseed Meal, Cold-Pressed Cottonseed 
Cake, and a Mixture of Cottonseed Meal and Corn for Fattening 
Steers. 
II. A Comparison of Cottonseed Meal, Cottonseed Meal and Broken-Ear 
Corn, and Cottonseed Meal and Shelled Corn for Fattenlng Steers. 
I. THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF COTTONSEED MEAL, COLD- 
PRESSED COTTONSEED CAKE, AND A MIXTURE OF 
COTTONSEED MEAL AND CORN FOR FATTENING STEERS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
During recent years there has been much interest manifested in 
the manufacture of cottonseed oil from cotton seed without cooking 
it. The oil is extracted by severe pressure without hulling the seed, 
thus securing a better quality of oil and leaving a residue called 
cold-pressed cake, which is made up of the entire seed less the oil. 
With the increased output of cold-pressed cottonseed cake has 
arisen a demand for definite information concerning its feeding value. 
Several years ago a cooperative experiment was conducted by the 
Bureau of Animal Industry and the Alabama experiment station 
testing the value of cold-pressed cottonseed cake for fattening steers 
on grass.2. Now, however, most of the up-to-date farmers of the 
South who fatten beef cattle for the market have silos and use silage 
for the roughage in fattening the stock. No work had been done 
by the bureau to test the feeding value of cold-pressed cake when 
1 Acknowledgment is due G. A. Scott and S. W. Greene, of the Animal Husbandry Division, United 
States Department of Agriculture, for assistance in compiling this bulletin, 
2See Bureau of Animal Industry Bulletin 131. 
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