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Show Questions of the Feed Lot , t Froftstor Htrbert W. Mumfort IlllnoJ Ctfltf Agrlculturt 9 Ground Ear and Shelled Corn Alike t I KXPKCT to feed tome cattle on gram 1 this summer and would like to Hsk ! which Is preferable, ground ear crn or i ground shelled corn. Do you think It wo:iI. 1 be advisable to supplement tho corn with bran or oats? The cattle will have access j to clover, timothy and blue grass pasture. 1 j would uIho like to know what would bo th I value of barley hulls for fattening cattle, if j they have any value, would you recoinrru n them for dry fteding or for feeding on c,ru-j? I have been having barley ground for xlop f(.,r hogs, but do not like the nulla In It for that purpose, and I thought If they would be of any value us feed for other stock I would try to sift them out." There N but little difference In the gains made by cattle fed ground cur corn and ground shelled corn, and the choice of thfse methods of preparing corn should depend upon which you can do most cheaply. Soak d shelled coin Is especially well adapted to grazing cattle and many feeders find ll a more economical ration than cornmeal. So long as cattle will cat broken ear corn In puMUhnt quantities without setting More mouth". It Is nulto as satisfactory as ground corn. I would not advice supplementing the com with bran or oats on the kind of paJuro you mention, as the clover and other graXsea will furnish all the protein necensnry ami at less com. Borley hull have very little feeding feed-ing value for feeding cattle, and I do not think you could afford to sift thern from your burley meal for this purpose. We have m.ide no analyj is of barley hulls, but hk oat hulli have been shown to be simllur to whrat straw In composition, It muy be assumed that barley bulla have about the Mine feed value. "I wish to ask you n lot of questions In regard to cottonseed meal. I urn sure that it would do the rattle we are feeding Jn pasture much good nnd possibly my riry-rd Blacks. I have an offer that looks pretty low to me and think of getting a ;irloud. which I can get laid down hero at $.10 pr ton', and I guess a dollar or two less. How doc that compare with corn at 60 cents per bushel? bush-el? The steers on grass have plenty of grans and twenty pounds of shelled corn a day. The dry-fed steers, twenty-seven of them, eal ten bushels, one-fifth ollmeal and four-hfths four-hfths ground shelled corn, per day, with clover hay for roughage. How much cottonseed cotton-seed meal can I feed profitably at above ris-ures ris-ures with perfect safety to hogs that follow cattle? Had the meal better be tine or pea size? The dry-fed cattle ate twelve bushcU a day till the weather got so hot." CottnnK'Cd meal is especially valuable ai a supplement to corn when cattle are on Tull feed on pasture. With corn at 60 cents ptr bushel and cottonseed meal at $30 per ton I would recommend the use of three pounds of cottonseed rneal per day per 1,00" pounds live weight of catt'e, and certainly think that it would be economy to use It, besides getting a smoolhfr and quicker llnlsh on the cattle. 1 There will be no difficulty in permitting hogj to follow the cattle receiving the nmmint of cottonseed meal stated, providing reasonable care Is used In not giving the hogs access to the meal directly. |