| Show calves require protein ration during winter young toung calves trying to live through their first winter on cornstalks corn stalks straw or prairie tiny hay will do much better if given a little cottonseed cake to supply the protein their bodies need for normal growth tests of the last few years at the valentino Valenti nr experiment sta tion of the university of nebraska have shown that from one half to one mounil of pea size cottonseed cake per calf per day in conjunction with prairie hay Is enough to produce the most economical gains in all these tests tile gains were ere worth several times the cost of ohp cake the cottonseed cake may be fed in bunks or some cattlemen prefer to scatter it on clean ground by throwing a sack over a horse and letting the cake dribble out slowly as they ride around the add the calves used lc in the valentlna valentine tests vere continued conti each year on pasture during the summer and then fed out the next winter at the agricultural college experiment station in ill lincoln in each case the completed tests showed that at no one can afford to stunt young calves the thin stunted calves lid did gain rapidly iiii ou the grasi gras the next ummer bummer but they neer caught up with those that had bad cottonseed cakes the first winter |
