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dry roughage. Maize fodder was given at
the rate of 130 lb. per head per day with
about 5 lb. of wheat bhusa during November
and December, 1942. From January to
May, green berseem was fed and then till
the end of the experiment, maize. The
amount of bhusa given per day remained
about the same. In addition to the above-
mentioned roughages, all the animals were
given as much cotton seed as they could eat
together with 1 lb. of ground gram and 1 lb.
of wheat bran per head per day. The four
buffaloes in group A ate regularly approxi-
mately 6 lb. per head per day of cotton seed
throughout the period. Of the four buffa-
loes in. group B, two ate 81b. of the
delinted cotton seed (K25/289F American
cotton seed) per head per day whilst the
other two would not eat more than 4 lb.
per head per day. The animals in group
C ate up to 8 lb. of the seed per head per
day on an average although animal No. 11
ate as much as 14 lb. of desi cotton seed
per day for about six weeks. One animal
in group C, No. 10, unfortunately deve-
loped mammitis in November, 1942, and
died on 16 January 1943, of toxemia.
With this exception, all the animals main-
tained normal weight with slight increase
throughout the period under report. Their
health was excellent and the milk yield in
every case normal.
All three types of cotton seed were
soaked in water for half an hour or so
before being fed.
Comments on the nature of the ghee
produced will be given later. A sample
of ghee was made from the milk of each
animal each month during the course of
the experiment except April 1943, when
the buffaloes were inoculated against T. B.
The results of the analyses are shown in
Table III.
As a. result of these and previous inves-
tigations the following conclusions may be
drawn on the seven contentions mentioned
above;
1. The statement regarding a lower fat
content of fuzzy cotton seed is not
correct, as may be seen from the
statement of chemical analyses of the
various cotton seeds (Table IV).
There is no truth in this contention
and the output of milk or ghee from
buffaloes fed on fuzzy cotton seed
was not reduced.
2. The fact has been deduced from these
trials that fuzzy cotton seed is more
digestible and contains more total
digestible nutrients and more digesti-
ble protein per 100 lb. of seed than
naked cotton seed.
3. From what has been said above, this
is obviously not true.
4. From the records of the milk yields,
it will be seen that there is no truth
in this contention.
5. In regard to this contention, one of
the animals in group A suffered
from slight mammitis for a short
time but completely recovered,
although the feeding regime remained
the same. On the other hand, one
of the animals in group C suffered
and ultimately died from toxemia.
Mammitis is not an uncommon occur-
rence and may occur in any animal,
and in this case appears to have had
no traceable relationship with the
ration.
6. It has already been pointed out that
in these experiments the food value
of the fuzzy cotton seed was higher
than that of the other cotton seed,
and not lower. This fact had pre-
viously been ascertained by work
on heifers and from the results of
similar works carried out on milch
cows recorded in the progress report
of the scheme for studying the
nutritional requirements of the
milch cows in the Punjab for the
year 1943.
7. This is entirely unsupported from the
evidence gained in these experiments
and previous work on milch cows
and heifers.