1 1 \ BUREAU OF AMMAI. IN Di 3TB3 . 
Thia table shows advantages in favor of gluten meal. Both rate 
and economy of gain favor the corn by-product. The oosl of the 
gluten-meal ration was much Leas than the one Into which Lint 
meal entered. 
[TON-SEED Mi. \l.. 
No t I <>f the South has so wide a range of Interesl as cotton- 
seed meal. It is a concentrated feed of high value for cattle and 
sheep, and ii^ effect on the fertilizing value <>f the manure is Dearly 
as great as its effect <>n the feeding value of tin- ration. 
The influence of cotton-seed meal extends far beyond tin- states 
where it i^ produced, and farmers over the entire country have come 
to depend upon it to balance their rations and enrich their fields. 
Danger of ust of cottonseed until in pig feeding, — For some reason 
as yet unexplained this by-product is usually fatal to pigs in from 
three t<> ten weeks after feeding has commenced, tin* mortality being 
at least .")i» per cent. In two tests conducted by the Texas Experi- 
ment Station boiled cotton seed gave the Least serious results, while 
Soaked raw sm\. roasted seed, and raw meal proved more serious. 
In one test, i () of the lot of 15 pigs \'<'<\ cotton seed or cotton-seed meal 
died. At the Iowa Experiment Station, of 6 pigs that were on a 
rat ion of cotton-seed meal, corn-and-cob meal, and buttermilk, 3 died. 
At the Kansas Experiment station,' I young pigs on a ration com 
i of one-sixth cotton-seed meal and five-sixths corn meal died 
within forty-six days after feeding commenced. At the Arkansas 
Station, d three lots of :! pigs each were fed mixed rations, the cotton- 
seed meal constituting one-third of the grain. All died. 
The time intervening between the beginning of feeding cotton Beed 
Or cotton-seed meal and the first appearance of trouble varies some- 
what. Curtis' gives six to eight weeks; Lloyd/ in one test, lost the 
first pig at the end of the fourth week: in another test, deaths began 
after forty days; CuEtiss* losl the first pig fifty-one days after feeding 
commenced. Dinwiddie's* first pig died thirty-five days after feed- 
ing commenced, and Duggar lost the first pig thirty days after 
feeding commenced. It therefore appears that there is no very defi- 
nite period of time that is required for the poison to manifest itself. 
However, ( ottrell slates that cotton-seed meal may be fed for three 
to foni- weeks before danger is imminent, and Bnrtis and Malum* ; 
stat.- that no ease has come under 1 heir experience "where a pig has 
died if the cotton-seed meal mixture has not been continued Longer 
than three weeks." 
Bnl. N<>. 81. Bnl. No. 88, Eowa Expt. Sta. 
B N *BnL No. ;»'-. Arkansas Bxpfc Sta. 
: Nb. 58. 'Bui. No. 122, Alabama Expt. Sta. 
Bnl. N Bn] N< , 95, Kansas Ex] Sta. 
Bnl. No. 31, Texas Expt. sta. An. ftpt L901 OS, Oklahoma Expt Sta. 
• I'.ul. No. 60, Mississippi Expt. Sta, 
