The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-04-24
COTTONSEED MEAL
FOR BEEF CATTLE
More Farmers Should Be Using That
Feed, According to u. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.

Five times as many farmers as at pres
ent should be using cottonseed meal, ac-
cordng to specialists in the United
States department of agriculture. 1t
has slightly greater feeding value than
linseed oil meal and the farmer is there
fore recommended to secure prices on
both and TO use the one which happens
to be the cheaper of the two at the
time During the past winter cotton
seed meal sold for $24 to $2S ton while
| lnseed oil meal cost about $3S ton.
| Under such conditions the feeder using
cottonseed meal had great advantage
over the farmer using linseed oil meal
Cottonseed meal contains from 3S to
10 per cent protein and IS therefore
one OF the most concentrated feedstutfs
upon the market. There are in fact very
few vegetable feeds which have anything
like this pecentage OF protein. Its val
ne has perhaps been more thoroughly
appreciated in Europe than in this coun-
try despite the additional cost OF ship
ping it abroad. During 1915, for exam
pie, about 100000 tons of the meal
We're exported to Europe. Much of what
remained in this country was used as
fertilizer, so that it has been estimat
ed that American cattle were fed less
than one-half OF the total quantity OF
meal produced in the country. There is,
however, growing tendency at the pres
ent time to use the meal as a supple
mentary feed
In new publication of the United
States department of agriculture farm
ers' bulletin +55, "Cottonseed Meal for
tonseed meal is said TO be usually worth I,
as much as two pounds of corn for feed
ing cattle. There is, however, a distinct
limit to the quantity OF the meal that
animals can use economically. In the |
South it was formerly the custom to |
feed steers very heavily on the by-prod |
ucts of the cottonseed oil mills, II to |
Is pounds OF meal day being not infre- |
quent rations. Such heavy feeding fire.
quently caused blindness and death,
while in other cases the steers after gain
ing fast in weight for u period OF 30
DAYS or more, lost flesh with equal rap /
iditv and could be with difficulty got |
back into good condition. Experiments
have shown, however, that when the ra-
ton is kept below seven pounds a day.
steers can be fed for 100 to 100 days /
upon it without showing IN effects. Ii
-ilage IS giving at the same time, as
the feeding of cottonseed meal
AN be prolonged beyond this time with
safety. Silaqc Is a better roughage to
Use with meal than cottonseed bulls. as
-.
hat il gives larger daily gains and bet
or finish.
For wintering storker cattle a ration
II corn silagc and cottonsced meal has
PROVEN very economical. Two pounds
II the meal combined with as much corn
ilsge a. the cattle will eat viii give a
mall gain ~ weight Straw and 9th
2 roughagcs which cannot otherwise be-
led adsantagrously may be- led with !
be- silage and cottonseed meal When 5
De- cattle are put on pasture. cotton
eed cake which T. the same as the meal /,
y substance. can b. used profts bly ~
supplementary feed. The cake has {
everal advantages over the meal for .
his purpose among others the fact that 2
y not - rrsdilv spoiled by rain.
C0tteuseed meal i also recommended /,
. a winter ration Tor the breeding herd J
Iiout tNo pounds ct the meal should
b given g. tho breeding COWS per day
1-etlef with Some silsge. st0Ycr and
thor aouehace This vii prove IN eco-
ouriral rntion afd 0ne which vill leave
.fe fyfes it Copd condition IN tle spring
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