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the first three weeks and preen feed daring i h<* first Bii weeks. Two 
pounds «>!' cotton-seed meal daily made the pig sick, and for twenty- 
two days the meal was dropped from the ration. Then the feed was 
made one-fourth cotton-seed meal, three-fourths wheat bran, with 12 
pounds Bkim milk dailj for ten days, after \\ 1 1 i « - 1 1 corn meal was 
substituted for the cotton-seed meaL The feeding was unprofitable, 
hut i be pig did not die. 
Amongthe instances where feeding was fairly profitable, the results 
at tin- N<-w Fork (State) Station ma\ Denoted. The intention was 
uoi bo uote the effects of cotton-seed meal feeding. Cotton-seed meal 
in amounts varying from one-thirteenth to three-tenths of the entire 
ration was fed, with good results, covering periods of from fifty-six to 
one hundred and thirty-nine days. Two pigs in a lot fed on wet feed 
were troubled with Indigestion, and after the close of the trial one <>f 
them died from " congestion oi the Liver, following indigestion." This 
may have been cotton-seed meal poisoning. The pigs were on a ration 
in which there was I hree-tenths pound daily for sixty-t hree daj s. 
Cary's* results in Alabama are remarkable because of the Large 
quantities of cottonseed fed. He conducted three experiments in 
which cotton seed or cotton-seed meal were fed to L3 pigs. Prom 1.1 
pounds of crushed cotton seed were w^i per head daily. In two 
instances cotton-seed meal was fed, bul in small amounts (three- 
tenths pound daily in one case and three-lift lis pon ml in the other). The 
receiving cotton-seed meal did not thrive. Losing appetite; one 
of them received bran, the other corn meal in addition to the cotton- 
seed meal, and both had green feed. When they were taken from 
cotton-seed meal and placed on corn and pasture they recovered 
rapidly. 
In the first tesl the pigS OD crushed cotton seed made fairly g i 
gains. They had some grain in addition, and all received green or 
succulent \\'i'i\. In the second test :; pigs were \'^^\ rations oi corn 
meal and crushed cotton seed or ground cowpeas and crushed cotton 
seed. The rations were heavy — 6 pounds when corn meal was fed 
and &j pounds when cowpeas were fed; the amount of cotton 
was more than half the ration. Pair gains were made and the after 
effect does not seem to have been SeriOUS, as the pigs did well when 
placed on pasture and U'i\ corn. One pig in this lot had crushed COt- 
!uii seed alone, being fod -4.1 pounds daily. He Lost in weight, but 
gained in size of frame. When turned on pasture and given corn lie 
did well. Another pig that had -)\ pounds crushed cotton seed and 
:;' pounds green rye daily lost 28 pounds in twenty-eight days. After 
the rye was discontinued the pig failed to thrive, hut recuperated 
rapidly on past lire with corn. 
In three Oases where •"> pounds Of Crushed cotton seed were \\'<\ 
daily, with ground cowpeas and green ryeorcorn meal and green rye, 
Eleventh and Twelfth An. Rpts. . Alabama Expt Sta. 
