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A Study in Varying Cottonseed Cake Levels in a Beet-Belt Steer-Fattening Ration

Holly Sugar Corporation^,2

Abstract

Various levels of cottonseed cake supplementation were studied in connection with a standard beet-belt ration of beet pulp, alfalfa and grain. In these studies one-half pound of cottonseed cake was found optimum in balancing the ration. Higher amounts of cottonseed cake resulted not only in slower but more expensive gains. Higher amounts of cottonseed did not improve dressing percentage, grade, or market value significantly. Elimination of cottonseed cake from the ration decreased market value and dressing percentage and did not increase economy of gain over the one-half pound level of this supplement.

¹ Thanks are due to Colorado Milling and Elevator Company for sharing in the costs of this investigation.

We wish to thank Roy Wiand, Roger S. Smith, Louis P. Orleans, and Alve Cole, of Holly Sugar Corporation, and William H. Burkitt, of Colorado Milling and Elevator Company, for help in this study.

² Colorado Springs, Colorado.