Show PROPER FEEDS FOR FATTENING CATTLE cottonseed meal may be used profitably in tile the fattening of beef cattle tor for market and only fat cattle will pay returns to the feeder in feeding beet beef cattle we must take advantage of certain facts then give attention to the details says ear prot prof R S curtla curtis of the animal husbandry department at the north carolina state college one of these facts lg 19 that the staple fattening food for beet beef cattle Is a nitrogenous one which normally produces growth rather than fat but this cottonseed meal Is a good fat producer if fed properly and from 73 75 to 85 per cent of its fertilizing value Is incorporated in the manure the other fact Is that to sell beet beef cattle profitably the they y must be fat professor curtis states that people do not like fat beef and sometimes compel the butcher to trim off part of the fat yet the fact remains that to properly condition a teet beef animal he be must be fat and naturally there la Is some surplus deposited in certain places as over the back bach the loins tills find and intestines this Is natures way vay A steer may be put in condition by using cottonseed meal as the concentrate the steer must never be allowed to get off feed but should be started off on one pound of cottonseed Otton seed meal per day supplemented by all the roughage liage lie he will consume professor curtis points out that cattle have four stomachs and if they are to get everything ery thing out of their feed there must be a sufficient amount of roughage to fill the paunch reasonably full each day professor curtis suggests that one pound of cottonseed meal be used with five pounds of hulls or more to start with gradually increase this amount of cottonseed meal during a SO 50 day period until each animal la Is getting one pound of the meal to each pounds of live weight this can easily be figured out and the increase made gradually about two or three times each week until the full amount Is being fed steers should be fed twice each day and the troughs kept clean and sweet |