Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — HINTS FOR FARMERS [ARTICLE]

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Cottonseed Meal For Hogs. A great many efforts have been made, especially by our southern experiment stations, to utilize cottonseed meal as a pig ration. It is very high in portein, and if it were not for the fact that it seems to produce some diseased condition cf the hog it would bo a valuable feed for balancing the carbonaceous corn ration. The results of nearly all the experiments seem to indicate the presence of some poisonous agent in -cottonseed which is fatal to the hog. No station has yet determined exactly what this agent is. and no station has solved the problem of safely feeding it in any quantity, at least to swine. Where hogs follow cattle which are receiving cottonseed meai as a portion of their ration there is practically no danger, provided the feed boxes are so arranged that the steers do not root much, if any, of the cottonseed meal out. —Farmers Advocate.