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nominal gains were made. N*o disastrous effects followed when green 
feed was discontinued; subsequent treatment on pasture and corn 
gave good gains. 
In a third test 2 pigs were fed for forty-nine days on a daily ration 
of G pounds of separator milk and :>\ pounds crushed cotton seed, 
then for fifty days on 6 pounds of whole milk and 34 pounds crushed 
cotton seed. Their appetites failed twice, but they gained slightly in 
weight. 
The length of time that cotton seed or cotton-seed meal was fed in 
these experiments was one hundred and five days in the first, ninety- 
one days in the second, and one hundred and nine days in the third. 
Although the pigs were occasionally off feed there were no fatalities. 
Duggar's a experiments did not show very favorable results for 
cotton-seed meal as part of the pig's ration. In no case did the pigs 
so fed make so great an average daily gain as 1 pound, and the gains 
were usually expensive, whether the grain was fed alone or with 
green feed. Rations of corn meal only gave better results. One lot 
of 2 pigs, averaging 68 pounds, fed a ration of cotton-seed meal one- 
fifth, corn meal four-fifths, and grazed on sorghum, made an average 
daily gain of 0.53 pound for thirty-four days, at an outlay of 380 
pounds of grain for 100 pounds gain. Another, averaging 68 pounds, 
on the same grain ration, but grazing peanuts, made an average daily 
gain for thirty-eight days of 0.94 pound, requiring 185 pounds grain for 
100 pounds gain. Another lot made an average daily gain of 0. 8 pound 
for twenty-eight days on a ration of cotton-seed meal one-fourth and 
corn meal three-fourths, requiring 384 pounds grain for 100 pounds 
gain, while a lot on corn meal only in the same test made an average 
daily gain of 1.1 pounds, but required 531 pounds grain for 100 pounds 
gain. Duggar found corn meal alone a more palatable ration than 
one to which cotton-seed meal had been added, and had difficulty in 
inducing pigs to eat a full allowance of a cotton-seed meal ration. 
The Kentucky, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma experi- 
ment stations have published results that show cotton-seed meal to 
have considerable feeding value for pigs. 
In Kentucky May b fed cotton-seed meal at intervals of one week as 
part of the ration to 20 grade Berkshire pigs during a three weeks' 
finishing period with very good results. 
At the Wisconsin Station/ Henry fed two lots of 5 pigs each for 
thirty-five days on a ration of which one-half pound daily was cotton- 
seed meal. The feeding was alternated, one lot receiving oil meal 
while the other had cotton-seed meal. The rest of the grain ration 
was a mixture of equal parts of wheat shorts and corn meal. Skim 
milk and whey were fed, and the feeding was done in the fall and 
«Bul. No. 122, Alabama Expt. Sta. c Eleventh An. Rpt. 
b Bui. No. 101, Kentucky Expt. Sta. 
