Show calves require protein ration during winter young yonna colv calas s trying to live through their first winter on cornstalks corn stalks straw or prairie 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 tit at the valentine experiment station of the university of nebraska have shown that from one half to one I 1 pound 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 the gains were worth several times the cost of the 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 calse cake dribble out slowly as they ride around the field the calves used in the valentine tests vere continued each year on pasture during the summer and then fed out the next winter at the agricultural college experiment station in lincoln ineich in each case the completed tests showed that no one can afford to stunt young calves the thin stunted calves did gain rapidly on the grass the next summer but they never caught up with those that had cottonseed cakes the first winter |