The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-17

lceulnS cottOn SCcu meal 10 NurSeS
and hogs. Which is the best meal
or cake? What would be safe amounts
to feed horses and hogs2 As corn Is
a failure here We must find some other
kind of feed in its place.-T. G. Horne,
Hughes County Oklahoma.
Cotton seed meal is probably the
cheapest concentrate feed offered on
the market today when we consider
the amount of digestible nutrimeuts
it contains 1t is not considered as
safe for general feeding as bran and
such other feeds Otherwise it would
be much more generally used and with
the greater demand the price would be
higher There has no doubt been un-
satisfactory results in some eases
from feeding cattle heavily on cotton
seed meal. It is also true that there
are plenty Of cases on record whero
hogs have died from feeding on cot
ton seed meal ludieiously fed, how
ever, cotton seed meal is an economi-
cal and sufficiently safe feed, A
ration consisting Of parts corn meal
and part bran has by experiment
been found equal to oats for horse
and mule feeding, No doubt cotton
seed meal could be substituted for the
corn and mixture of cotton seed
meal and bran equal parts, by weight
he fed satisfactorily. Probably some
little care would be necessary in grad
ually adding the cotton seed meal as
it may take little while for horses,
md particularly mules, to acquire a
taste for cotton seed meal. There
are numbers of authenticated cases on
record where both horses and mules
have been maintained satisfactorily
for considerable periods on cotton
seed meal alone.
Somewhat more care must be eXer-
cised in feeding cotton seed meal to
hogs than to horses In the case of
young pigs and breeding hogs would
not recommend that more than one
eighth of the ration consist Of cotton
seed meal. h1'e other seyen.eighths
may consist of corn, kafir, or milo
milo chop, shorts, sill run or such
other feeds For lattening hogs more
cotton seed can be safely and salts
faetorily fed than one-eighth Of the
grain ration. We have three lots OF
fattening hogs on experiment at this
time, Lot | is being fed corn chop S
parts, cotton seed meal / part, Lot 2
corn chop parts, cotton seed meal
part; Lot corn chop 4 parts, cotton
seed meal | part. Each mixture is
soaked twelve hours before feeding.
These hogs have been on full feed for
forty days and viii be marketed in
about twenty days from date. There
are two things we are trying to
determine by means Of this expert
ment 1st, how heavily cotton seed
meal may be fed to hogs I'd, the
comparative economy Of cotton seed
meal and corn for fattening hogs, SO
far each lot is making satisfactory
gains and as yet we have had no bad
results with these hogs from cotton
seed meal feeding. | know of mum
Der of cases where men make prac
tice of feeding fattening hogs q
ration consisting Of one-third cotton
seed meal for period Of sixty days,
and report satisfactory results. " be
lieve in each case the feed is soaked
from twelve to twentyfour hours be
fore feeding. Continued feeding of a
ration consisting OF one-third to one.
fourth cotton seed meal would no
doubt kill many hogs, but small pigs
and breeding hogs may be fed a mix
are OF one-eighth cotton seed meal
almost indefinitely and fattcning hogs
may be safely fed as rich mixture
as to Of cotton seed meal for u
period Of sixty days without bad
results.
There is practically no difference in
the feeding value of cotton seed meal
and cotton seed cake. The cotton
seed cake must be broken up in small
pieces to be fed to most classes OF
stock and for this reason is scarcely
as convenient as cotton seed meal.
Cotton seed cake should not be con
flicted with Caddo cake or cold
pressed cotton seed cake. This cold
pressed cake or Caddo cake contains
a large per cent Of hulls aud conse-
quently contains great deal OF
crude fiber and only about one-half as
much protein as standard cotton seed
meal or cotton seed cake. ] do not
believe that Caddo cake is worth |
more than three-fifths as much as cot |
ton seed meal.-W A Linklater, De
partment of Animal Husbandry, Okla |
homa A. & NJ College, Saltwater.