The Effect of Feeding Cottonseed Meal as the Only Concentrate on Several Properties of Milk. I. Fat, Total Solids and Ash Content

Summary The precentage of fat, total solids and ash of the milk produced by a group of holstein cows receiving cottonseed meal as the only conentrate was compared with that of a similar group receiving a mixture of corn gluten meal, wheat bran, ground corn and oats. The roughage was the same for the two groups. The data collected covered a feeding period of sixteen consecutive months. Pour months after placing the animals on their respective experimental rations the milk produced by the group receiving the cottonseed meal ration had a lower percentage of total solids, fat and solids-not-fat than that from the control group. Later the ash content likewise became lower.