Show cattle make gains when fed roughage cottonseed cake advised as a supplement in the northwest roughage for wintering wint erini cattle Is a problem at the ardmore experiment station in south dakota yearling steers made an average gain of 75 pounds per head fiend during the he winter when fed a dally daily ration of ten pounds of oat straw arid and five pounds of alfalfa hay stockmen Stoc kmen who have no alfalfa or clover hay to mix with their poor quality roughage may supplement their roughage with cottonseed cake breeding edlue stock will stay in better condition and a more economical ration may be made by the use of small quantities of such feeds along with poor quality roughage cot tensed cake may be fed at the rate of one pound per head dally daily to ito mature cattle and half as much to steers being maintained one ton of alfalfa hay can be replaced by to COO pounds of cottonseed cal cake e when fed with straw to mature malure cattle cottonseed cake should be fed to young calves hogs or horses linseed can be used for such classes of stock |