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Feeding Cotton Seed l1cai to Horse

Feeding Cotton Seed Meal TO Horses.
r. s. r. Coatopa. Ain. writes. A
neighborlng cotton Oh mill recommend.
ed 10 me the following mixture for horse
feeding. Cottonseed hulls. 500 pounds:
cottonseed meal. 200 pounds: wheat
bran,3jO pounds; oats, $50 pounds: corn
chop. 43O pounds. / omitted the huls
and fed instead all the johnson Grass
hay the animals would eat. Have been
feeding the mixture for thirty DAYS
on seventeen head of horses and mules
ut hard work and they are doing fine
except one horse, which scours If we
given him the slightest amount Of cot
ton seed meal TO the ration.
Three years ago I was feeding on
shellcd corn and hay and tried adding
a pint of cotton seed meal to tile
ration. All did well on t except one
mule which would scour whenever she
get the least bit OF the meal.
Cotton seed meal costs me $3.50
per ton, corr chop, Sl.40 per 100
pounds, oats, fify-seven cents per
bushel, wheat bran, S114 per leo
pounds. l would like the above ra-
ton criticised and suggestions made
How would it do to leave on. the oats
and make I'd the amount in brain?
Cotton seed meal was fed to horses
and mules on the station farm for
several months the past year. 1t did
not prove to be n satisfactory substi-
tute for an equal amount of corn,
thought it did not seem to have any
Injurious effect on the -ealth of the
animal and we did not observe any
case Of scOurS. rs noted n your COM
munication. We fed as much as two
ana a half pounds of meal q day for
several months to one horse and he
neither gained nor lost in weight.
while his mate, consuming an equal
amount of corn without the cotton
seed meal. did as much orll ana kept
in as good condition rs the other ami
nal. This leaves us to believe that
cOttoR seed neal is Of comparatively
AAlAAN NihN 10 a lbOAl lbl lOA otHs W 4
do Tot desire to make this as q posi-
tive statement, because our inyestiga-
tons arc not completed and in later
trials where different combinations of
concentrates are used cotton seed meal
might shoU - to bette. advantage.
Only limited amount of this meal can
be fed 10 horses and mul, with salts
faction in any case. and as 4 result of
the past winters experience we have
discarded 1t altogether. The writer
would not think that cotton seed hulls
would be 4 satisfactory food for horses
and mules, as they contain too much
lint which might easily affect the res
piratOry organs, causing irritation Of
the same and producing the affection
known as hCavCs. Part of the time dur
ing the experiment referred to a mix
ture Of cotton seed meal and ground
hulls, known to the trade as cotton
seed bran, was fed in place of the pure
meal. This consisted of forty-eight
parts of cotton seed bran and fifty
two parts Of cotton seed meal. The
results from its use were about the
same as from feeding cotton seed meal.
So far as injury to the animals is con-
cerned, it seems feasible to feed as
much as two and q half pounds of meal
Per day, though the results obtained
by us do not justify its use. With
these facts in mind it would seem adj
visable in your case to discard the cot
ton seed meal altogether, and John
son grass hay, which is a good, nutrl-
tious food, is certainly more valuable
for horses and mules than cotton seed
meal, and so you did wise thing in
using it in place Of the latter.
At the prices mentioned in your let
ter cotton seed meal would cost you
about S21.5O. corn chop S23 per ton.
wheat bran $3.50 and oats $685. per
ton. While oats constitute the ideal
food for horses. they are so Gear that
you cannot afford to feed them with
corn chop and bran when much cheap
er, when you consider that corn is the
next best food grown in this country
for horses and bran probably ranks
third You can well afford under the
circumstances to discard the use of
oats and cotton seed meal and add Il
larger amount of wheat bran, as bran
contains considerably more protein
than oats. You may make your ration
one-half corn chop and one-half bran
or probably better, two-thirds corn
chop and one-third bran BY corn chop
You doubtless mean crushed corn and
cob. 1t is an advantage TO feed
crushed corn ana cob. as it lightens
$500.