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Show ECONOMICAL BEEF IN SOUTH Mixture of Silage, Dry Velvet Beans and Cottonieed Meal Is Most Satisfactory. The United States Department of Agriculture has conducted a steer-fattening experiment In Mississippi which shows that velvet beans are well adapted for use In making beef. Feeding Feed-ing mixtures of silage, dry velvet beans and cotton seed were compared with combinations of silage and dry velvet beans, and silage and soaked velvet beans. The mixture of slluge and soaked velvet beans resulted '.n the most economical and profitable production of beef, while the mixture of silage, dry velvet beans und cottonseed cotton-seed meal proved more satisfactory than the combination of silage and dry velvet beans. |