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The Relative Value of Cottonseed Meal, Linseed Meal, and Corn Gluten Meal in Fattening Cattle Rations

Kansas State College

Abstract

Cottonseed meal, linseed meal, and corn gluten meal were fed singly and in different combinations to fattening steer calves at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1928–29, 1929–30, and 1932–33. All of the supplements were fed at the rate of one pound per steer daily. In addition to the protein supplement, each lot was fed alfalfa hay at the rate of two pounds per steer daily and full-fed shelled corn and corn silage. All feeds were hand-fed except shelled corn which was self-fed after the first sixty days.

The average length of the three experinients was 185 days. The calves used were range-bred Herefords. They graded choice and averaged approximately 388 pounds when starled on feed.

The calves fed linseed meal consumed more corn in the first and third experiments than the calves fed cottonseed meal and ate an average of .31 pound more shelled corn per head daily for the three experiments.

¹ With the collaboration of W. E. Connell, B. M. Anderson and M. A. Alexander.