Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-14
Cattan seed for HOGS.

The Southern CaEiUdtor, published at Augusta, Ca,
contained communication in recent issue, sug-
costing the feeding of cotton seed to hogs We have
reason to believe that it is very nutricisus food
and grateful to the palstes of hogs. Heretofore,
cotton seed has been used mostly as manure, al
though has of late been discovered that it contains
valuable oil, and ingenious men are using 1t for
that purpose. On the smaller plantations it is a
waste to use it manure if it can be used for the
feeding of hogs Every planter can test its value in
this respect and find for himself what virtue there
is in it. We should suggest the trial of it,
for two reasons the first is that it is econom-
zeal and always at hand on cotton farms the second
is that if found useful it may stimulate the growth
of q meat which enters largely into the consump-
ton OF our people, both white and black. There is
vast AMOUNT Of pork, in its various forms, used in
this country. It is the staple article of food on our
plantations, as well as, in large measure, in our
cities. and the direction Of attention to il by orr
planters viii serve to make them Independent of
foreign sources Of supply, besides enabling planters
10 convert cotton seed to substantial use.
The following is he communication referred to /;
EDITORS SoUrHERx cVLTIYAFoR The saving Of
corn is desirable at any time. but especially this
season, when the supply ia but srauiy in tae South.
Il may, therefore, proper present to substi-
tute cotton seed as food for hogs. Almost every
psner has learned the fatal result. Of feeding cot
ton seed in its raw state to hogs Ia your Septem-
Der number cotton seed is recommended for this
purpose when cooked. think this is only one half
Of the recipe, and having had some experience IL
this branch of husbandry will here state the way
in which am using il daily for about two hundred
hogs.
fhaye two large oauldrons, one holding ninety
gallons and the other ffyVe gallons, arched in as
tor distillery. They are filed with dry. cotton
seed pressed in hard; after which water is poured
on till it raises the seed above the rim Of the kettle
which is then covered with some planks and piece
of baggng old carpet, to prevent the steam from
escaping too much. 1t requires boiling, more
correctly, steamng for two or three hours, until
the seed at the top of the kettle is well done that
it can he mashed between the fingers,
The ne4t process is the Fermentation of the seed
which consider of the utmost Importance. 1 have
large tubs which hold about sixty gallons each.
About two or three bushels of steamed seed are
placed In each tub, and filed up with cold water.
In about twenty-four hours it has undergone
strong fermentation and ia then in fit condition to
be fed to the hogs; but as have several tubs some
land do not feed but two tubs day. of this cotton
seed beer it actually u.s. will often turn sour the
hogs will like it so much the better.
Once a week give few handsful Of aalt or
ashe on this food, .tf
1t does not, however, seem to agree with young
pigs, and it is therefore not fed to pigging
til their pigs couple Of weeks old, or stall bet
ter, until they are weaned,
would, also here state that the hogs have free
access to small Bermuda Grass patch and always
an abundance of water.
learned this method from Rev. Samuel johnson,
Of this place, who used 1t for nine years, and al
ways had beautiful lot of hogs, that got any
corn, except what they could CLEAN on the fields
after the erep was gathered. His year oil hogs,
fed on cotton seed, usually weighed $50 to 200
pounds. Ga
have fed large lot of hogs this plan, for the
last year, with SO much success that never shall
give it up as long as l am raising hogs.
Respectfully ROBERT NELSON.
MONTGOMERY Ala Sept 1860.