The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-06
method of handling cattle is to saw the


cattle under shelter, unless the winter
is exceptionally dry.
An examination OF the tables in No. 8
will show that steers dehosned and fed
under shelter made larger gains than
steers not dehorned and not sheltered,
and at less cost for food.
Several questions are put to the cattle
and feed-stuffs in this experiment., but
the two leading questions are:
/. What is the best to feed with cotton
hulls.
g. What is the best to feed with silage? In
cidentiy we ask:
a. If sweetening the ration will make It
more palatable to cattle
b. Is corn silagc better cattle food than
dry corn fodder?
ton seed and cotton meal for feeding !
d. Is corn the best grain to feed with corn
silage2
T. Will changing the ration stimulate the
appetite and cause cattle to fatten moro
rapidly?
G. Will hogs do as well running after ST..
lage and cotton meal fed cattle as after hay.
corn and cotton seed fed cattle?
H. Will cotton seed improve the corn and
hay rations
Is cotton bulls and cotton meal a good
food to fatten sheep?
Here follow elaborate details of the
experiments (too lengthy for our col.
umns), which result in the following
CONCLUSIONS:
1. The experiments of the two win
tiers show that of our different cattle
foods ration made up of cotton hulls
and cotton meal is equal. if not supe-
rior, to ration of any other two feed
stuffs used for fattening cattle, but a
cheaper ration may be compounded of
silage and cotton seed, or of corn, hay
and cotton seed, at the prices given.
2. That the addition of some other
feed-stuff to the cotton hull and cotton
meal ration makes it more palatable to
cattle, and produces better results in
gain in weight. Corn meal, hay, silage
and molasses, each one added to cotton
huIls and cotton meal, made larger
gains than hulls and meal alone, in the
order named, molasses giving the best
result.
8. OF the several rations containing
silage, silage, cotton hulls. and cotton
meal gave the best gains. Silage and
cotton meal second. Silage and boiled
Gotten seed third. Silage, corn and
cob meal, and cotton meal fourth.
Silage, corn and cob meal fifth. Dry
corn fodder did not give as large gain
as silage. Molasses did not improve the
ration containing silage.
T. Cotton hulls and cotton meal with
hay, corn, silage and molasses gave
larger gains than silage and cotton
meal, or silage and cotton seed.
s. Cotton-seed meal, with othes feed
stuffs and folders, gave larger gains
than cotton seed with other feeds
and folders.
6. Cotton seed, with other feed-stuffs
and folders, made gains at less cost for
food per pound gain than cotton m cal
with other feed-stuffs and folders.
Z. After feeding any of the ratio MS
used without change for sixty days, the
daily gain diminished until finally, in
some pens, it ceased entirely; but with
change of ration. the daily gain in all
the pens was largely increased, in some
pens exceeding the average of the first
period of feeding.
s. Corn and hay alone is more costly,
and will not fatten cattle so rapidly as
rations containing cotton seed and cot
ton meal, with cotton hulls or silage;
and boiled cotton seed added to the
corn and hay ration makes more rapid
gain than corn and hay alone, and at
considerable less cost per pound for food
consumed.
9. The waste from cattle fed hay, corn,
silage and raw cotton seed was worth
considerable more for hogs running
after the steers than the waste from
cattle fed silage, cotton hulls and cot
ton-seed meal.