The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-11-04
BLUE VALLEY FARM SERVICE
By M. A. Nye

Cotton Seed Meal Cheap This Year
Cotton seed meal is a decidedly
cheap protein feed for dairy cows
this season. Due ito the enormous
cotton ecrop the price. is exception
ally low.
Dairymen are urged to take adj
vantage of the situation and feed
cotton seed meal along with their reg
ular grain to their COWS.
Cotton seed meal is fed like lin
seed meal only not in as large guam
titles per cow. Its place in the COW
ration is Ito mix it with the regular
grain feed. It should be fed from.
u lib to 2 lbs per cow per day says
DR.. Eckles chief of the Minnesota
Dairy Department. 1t must be fed
in small quantities. In letter to TINS
department DIR. Eclles has the fol-
lowing to say about cotton seed meal.
Cottonseed meal is decidedly cheap
this season and taking into account
the unusually large crop one would
expect the price would be quite low
during the winter. No doubt 1t VIII
be more favorable than llnseed meal.
AS a rule linseed meal Is a llttle
higher, not because it contains more
protein but because it is "a more pop
ular feed.
While high grade cottonseed meal
contains about 37.6 pounds dlgesn-
HE protein hnseed meal contains
ahout 3O.2. Even at tn same price
ner ton cottonseed meal is cheaper
than linseed. :
Cottonseed meal of course, IS a
rather heavy feed. That is TO say II
forms a sticky mass in the STOMACH,
unless mixed with other feeds az.
Sc for this reason rather hard to OIL
,,est. It should be mixed with otnef
Feeds and the COWS should become &C
customed to it rather slowly. That
is. it would be wise to feed not over
a half pound Ia day ait first, then al
ter "a few days increase this TO d
pound. 1t will not be necessary un-
der ordinary conditions to feed more
than two pounds per day 10 supply
all the protein necessary, anu uo
not think there is any danger WhaG-
ever in feeding cottonseed meal WIN
other feeds as long as reasonaole
amount is fed. I fed it mre or less
for eighteen years while l was IN
Missouri without any bad results. VI
course. it would be somewhat better
40 make "a mixture of cottonseea'
linseed and wheat bran as a proIeln
concentrate rather than Depending
entirely on any one.
Swine Feeders Spend a Day az
St.te Farm-The same brand OF
weather, dark and threatening 0na1
has been experienced on successive
Swine Feeders Days lat UNIVERSITY
Farm. marked the fourth annual
Swine Feeders Day which was cese e
brated on Wednesday, October ~;
However. the clouds gradually rolled
away and the FARMERS rolled IN 30
that attendance and interest," were
probably the best OF the series 10
this time.
Ferrin and M. A. McCarty reported
the results of feeding experiments.
All the pigs used were shown IN the
ring to give emphasis to the conciu-
sions drawn from the trials. The I'M
portance of feeding protein supple
ments to growing pigs was brugnt
our forcibly in the analysis of feed
ing trials running 125 days. Pigs de-
MED such feeds weighed but la 8
pounds each at the end of the feeding
period, while those in a lot given but
terrnilk weighed 236.13 pounds each.
Another lot which received tankage
inctead of buttermilk weighed 18O. :
So pounds each. The feed cost of
100 pounds gain was for the first lot
1928, for the second 1884, and for