. The cotton plant : its history, botany, chemistry, culture, enemies, and uses. Cotton; Cotton. 396 THE COTTON PLANT. -Results of feeding cotton-seed products for beef production—Continued. Eation. MARVLAND STATION EXPERIMENTS, (a) S-y ear-old giade Shorthorns. pounds cotton-seed meal, pounds corn (odder, pounds corn-and-cob meal and pint molasses, pounds corn meal, pounds roots pounds corn fodder, pounds corn-and- cob meal and pint molasses, pounds roots ALABAMA STATION EXPERIMENTS. (6) 10 to 12 year old work oxen. pounds raw cotton s
. The cotton plant : its history, botany, chemistry, culture, enemies, and uses. Cotton; Cotton. 396 THE COTTON PLANT. -Results of feeding cotton-seed products for beef production—Continued. Eation. MARVLAND STATION EXPERIMENTS, (a) S-y ear-old giade Shorthorns. pounds cotton-seed meal, pounds corn (odder, pounds corn-and-cob meal and pint molasses, pounds corn meal, pounds roots pounds corn fodder, pounds corn-and- cob meal and pint molasses, pounds roots ALABAMA STATION EXPERIMENTS. (6) 10 to 12 year old work oxen. pounds raw cotton seed, pounds bay with some cotton-seed bulls mixed with it pounds cotton-seed meal, pounds bay with some cotton-seed bulls mixed with it 3 to 4 year old steers. pounds bay, pounds corn meal ARKANSAS STATION EXPERIMENTS, (c) 2 to 2J year old steers. pounds raw cotton seed, pounds cowpea- vine hay pounds raw cotton seed, pounds cotton- seed bulls, pounds cowpea-vine hay pounds cotton-seed meal, pounds cotton- seed hulls, pounds cowpea-vine hay Dura- tion of Num- period ber of of ex- ani- peri- mals. ment. Days. 90 4 90 4 105 1 105 1 105 1 90 2 90 2 90 2. Average live weight, o? animals. Total daily ration. Pounds. Pounds. 1, 113 1,062 | 32 1,328 j 1,422 i 990 718 798 831 Average daily gain in live weight, Pounds. .22 Cost of food per pound of gain. Cints. aMaryland Sta. Bui. 22. b Alabama Canebrake Sta. Bui. 8. c Arkansas Sta Ept. 1890, p. 134. II.—Results of feeding cotton products. Ration. MISSOURI STATION EXPERIMENTS, (a) 2-year-old Shorthorn steers. pounds cotton-seed meal, pounds wheat bran, pounds hay, pounds silage, pound straw pounds cotton-seed meal, pounds wheat bran, 4 pounds hay, 2 pounds straw, pounds cofn fodder , MASSACHUSETTS STATE STATION EX-
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