Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-12
cOTTENSEED MEAL.
lis value as food for Cattle by an intelligent
Agricultural.

AS Memphis has three c~ottonseed
, oil factories, and is largely interested
in the introduction of cottonseed
meal as the best substitute for corn or
fodder for stock, we present the fol-
lowing extract from the american Ag-
ricuLtuTist, as worthy the attention
and consideration of every farmer,
gardener, dairyman or stock raiser
who reads the APPEAL. This is
strong testimony; added to the expe-
rience of all who have used cotton
seed meal, in this country and Eng
land, it must have the effect to induce
its general adoption, especially in the
South where it is so available:
Cottonseed cake meal, now to be
found in our markets, is the residue
left after pressing the oil from the cot
tonseed, ground Tor feed. The cotton
seed, as it comes from the gins, is COW
cred with a hull or shell, which in the
upland variety is clothed with a short
down of cotton fiber. The seed makes
more and better oil, and better feed, if
il is deprived Of this hull; neverthe-
less, there is, or has been, cOnsidera-
bic seed pressed which has not been
thus decOrticated. There are several
patented processes for this hulling or
decOrticatiOn. After pressing the
cake is ground for feed, as we ind it,
and sold at considerably lower prices
than those of linseed cake and meal.
It's actual value for feeding purposes is
considerably lower prices than those
Of Iinseed cake and meal. Its actual
value for feeding purposes is cOnsId-
in a report made 10 the Connecticut
State Agricultural Society, in 1857,
says: COttOnseed cake is much
richer in oil and albuminOus matters
than the linseed cake. Three pounds
of the cOttOnseed cake are equivalent
20 four Of the linseed cake OF average
quality. The value OF the article as a
manure is obviously very cOnsidera-
ole. The dung OF the cattle fed upon
il will be greatly richer, both in nitro
zen and phOsphates, than that Of an
unals led on hay alone. Where stock
IS Kept, probably the best manner of
using this cake as a fertilizer, IS to
iced il 10 the cattle. and carefully APP
ply the they furnish. In this
way, whatever is not economical as
at or flesh will be available - ma
nure."
We have tested in the mauger, the
soundness of these views from the
laboratory, and have no doubt Of their
correctness. We Overcame a prejudice
ia using the meal for feeding mich
COWS, and found il a very valuable
article. All animals will not eat it at
first. If it is not relished at once, il
may be mixed in small quantities
with cOrnmeal, and sprinkled with It
| over cut feed. The most reluctant
animal viii soon come to it greedily.
We would use the meal in connection
with both roots and hay in the winter,
feeding not more than four quarts a
day. 1t is said to be dangerous to feed
it TO young calves while living In part
upon mick. There are we'll attested
cases upon record OF its having killed
them. Whether this was owing to
some defect in the preparation of the
meal, We are not able to say. 1t Is
well for stock raisers to be cautious.
1t is a safe article for cows, increases
the flow Of milk, and keeps them in
| good condition. 1t stands at the head
/ of all kinds of fodder in producing
manure richi in nitrogen. AS the value
! of manure depends mainly upon the
food from which it is made, farmers
ought to look good deal more sharply
at this matter than they have been
accustomed TO do.