1 24 BUBEAtJ OF a mm \ l. in in BTRY. 
The Kansas Station 'states thai the meal used in their earl} experi- 
ments was shipped in from Texas during the previous winter by a 
Local feeder, t<> i><- r<-<i to Bteers. 1 Ee turned about W hogs after them, 
and all died In the course of sii or seven weeks. Considerable evi- 
dence that pigs ma) not Buffer after steers thai are fed on cotton-seed 
meal has recently been presented in the columns of the agricultural 
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i in i >KL vim m \ i xri.KiMi.N i-. 
The Oklahoma Station has made an extensive study of the possi- 
bility of feeding I his by-product bo I hal good pel urns may be obtained 
with Little <>r do danger from poisoning. The conditions under which 
ii has been found thai cotton-seed meal maj generally 1m* fed safely 
are (l) where pigs have access to range and plenty of green pasture, 
and (2) where periods of cotton-seed meal feeding of three to four 
weeks' duration without pasture are alternated with a period on pas- 
tureoron a ration from which the cotton-seed meal has been omitted. 
Following up this system the Oklahoma station has conducted 
three experiments. In the first trial, in L900, the alternating method 
was tried with 17 thrifty shoats of various sizes. They were put on a 
ration composed of one-fifth cotton-seed meal and four-fifths Kafir- 
corn meal and had the run of a la rge paddock, where they got a little 
greenstuff. The trial began March. 22. For twenty-seven days the 
cotton-seed meal ration was \'<'i\\ then for fourteen days Kafir-corn 
meal alone, next fourteen days on one-fifth cotton-seed meal, and 
four-fifths Kafir-corn meal, then seven days without the cotton 
meal, closing with five days on the original rat ion. "None of the pigs 
had, died, and all made very fair gains on a moderate amount of grain. n 
At the (dose of i his trial part of the pigs were sold and the rest con- 
tinued on the cotton-seed meal rat ion, with which the trial closed (one- 
fifth cotton-seed meal and four-fifths Kafir-corn meal). They were fed 
on this ration without change until July 14 with the loss of l pig only. 
In the second trial of the same year L6 stunted shoats, about a year 
old and averaging 79 pounds were used. For twenty-six days from 
April L2, they were hurdled on wheat and d'd a light ration of one- 
fifth cotton-seed meal ami four-fifths Kafir-corn meal. There wasno 
ill effect from the -rain ration. The gains averaged 0.96 pound per 
head daily and were made economically. <>n May 8 the pigs were 
taken from the wheat and fed the same -rain ration in a lot for 
twenty-one days with no serious results making an average daily 
gain of 1.71 pounds ai the expense of 307 pounds of grain lor loo 
pounds gain. Five of the Largest were sold after forty-» ven days 
continuous feeding on a cotton-seed meal ration. 
«Bul. X... 58. An. Kpt.. L900-01. 
