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Corn and Cottonseed Meal in Beef Fattening Rations

Georgia Experiment Station

Abstract

These tests were conducted in Moultrie, Georgia, in cooperation with the Animal Husbandry Division, U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry. Three comparable groups of high grade native yearling steers, 32 head each, were fed. These steers were mostly Herefords but a number of Angus were used in this test. The rations of the three lots consisted of shelled white Georgia corn, cottonseed meal (42% protein), good quality Georgia peavine hay, steamed bone meal, mineral mixture, and block salt. The mineral mixture fed during the first 28 days of the test contained ground limestone, hardwood ashes, steamed bone meal and salt in equal amounts. It was then replaced with steamed bone meal.

The corn and cottonseed meal were proportioned carefully for each of the three lots. In Lot 1 the steers received one part of cottonseed meal to six parts of shelled corn, in Lot 2 one part of the cottonseed meal was fed to three parts of shelled corn, and in Lot 3 two parts of cottonseed meal were fed to three parts of shelled corn.