Show LM afo CK newa cottonseed MEAL F FATTENING FEED may lie be used to good i advantage to finish pigs while too much cottonseed meal Is injurious when fed to hogs recent experiments peri perl ments have shown that it may be used to advantage in fattening pigs the pigs in these experiments were fed in dry lots for periods ranging from 55 to 84 days with an average daily consumption of from one third to one half pound of cottonseed meal says E 11 hostetler hosteller chief of swine investigations at north carolina state college with none of them il howing any evidence of cottonseed meal polso poisoning ning in another trial with soybean soy bean pasture added to the ration of cottonseed meal shelled corn and mineral the pigs were fed three fourt fourths lis of a pound dally for a period of DO 90 days without any injurious effects greater pains gains at less cost were also made when cottonseed meal was added to the ration states mr hostetler equal parts of fish meal and cottonseed meal were mixed and fed free choice with shelled corn and mineral in the live five trials conducted in this experiment the pigs made more rapid gain at less cost than where fish meal alone was used as the protein supplement the relatively low price or of cottonseed meal as compared with other high protein feeds is of much impo imbor r tance to hog raisers in the state says mr hostetler hosteller and farmers can safely add tills this supplement to the fattening ration similar experiments have been conducted at the experiment station in teras becas and have shown the same results states mr hostetler hosteller |