Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-08-14
method Of handling cattle is to saw the

method OF handling cattle is to saw the
horns off close to the head, and feed tho
cattle under shelter, unless the winter
is exceptionally dry.
An examination OF the tables in No 0
will show that steers dehosued and fed
under shelter made larger gains than
steers not dehorned and rot 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
| huls.
2. What Is the best to feed with slagc? In.
| cdently we ask
a. If sweetening the ration viii make 10
more palatable to cattle
| b. Is corn silagc better cattle food than
| dry corn fodder?
| c. What the comparative value of cot.
| ton seed and cotton meal for feeding
| d. Is corn the best grain to feed with corn
silage7
| T. VIII changing the ration stimulate the
| appetite and cause cattle to fatten more
rapidly?
| &, Will hogs do as well running after ST.
| lage and cotton meal fed cattle as after hay.
/
| H. VIII cotton seed improve the corn and
| hay ration?
| l. Is cotton hulls 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:
| Tho ovpnri,noutu Of tba +u,o ,,,;,,
tiers show that of our different cattle
foods ration made up of cotton bulls
and cotton meal is equal, if not supe-
rior, to a 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
feedstIH 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
hulls and cotton meal, made larger
gains than bulls and meal alone, in the
order named, molasses giving the best
result.
3. 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,
4. Cotton hulls and cotton meal with
hay, corr, silage and molasses gave
larger gains than silage and cotton
meal, or silage and cotton seed.
s. Cotton-soed meal, with otheg feed
stuffs and folders, gave larger gains
than cotton seed with other feed-stulfs
and folders.
6. Cotton seed, with other feed stuff:
and folders, made gains at less cost for
food per pound gain than cotton m ca
with other feed-stulfs and folders.
T. After feeding any of the ratio n'
used without change for sixty days, the
| udliN Edln uubll hubil1s IL
some pens, it ceased entirely; but with
a change of ration, the daily gain in al
the pens was largely increased, in some
pens exceeding the average of the frs
period of feeding.
s. Corn and hay alone is more costly
and will not fatten cattle so rapidly al
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 a
considerable less cost per pound for fooC
consumed.
9. The waste from cattle fed hay, corn
silage and raw cotton seed was wortl
considerable more for hogs running
after the steers than the waste from
cattle fed silage, cotton bulls and cot
ton-seed meal.