Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-01-22

1eeQ1ng Vatuo OF COCCOn-Soe0 meal as
compared to corn-meal or other foods.
Cotton-seed meal is a waste product
from the manufacture of cottcn-seed oil.
The seed, being first freed from the lint
which surrounds it, is ground or crushed
and pressed Under powerful machinery,
by which the oil is squeezed out. The
scrap remaining is in the form of thin
cakes, weighing fifty pounds each, more
Or less. These cakes are now shipped
to Europe in large quantities for feeding,
or they are first reduced to meal by an
other grinding. A few years since there
was large establishment for grinding
cotton seed in Providence, R. l., and the
farmers in that portion of New England
could easily supply themselves with the
meal at any time, but the company have
since removed their business to New Or
leans, to save freighting the raw ma
terial, so that at present there is no way
of obtaining the meal but by shipping
from the South or West. We have fed
many tons of this food, and for many
years could buy it for little more by the
ton than corn-meal, and, when first in
troduced to the notice Of farmers, it was
sold even lower than cOrn-meal. Since
it's value has become better known,
especially by the farmers of Eng
land, the price has gone up, till
it is often considered beyond the reach
of farmers in this vicinity. While
the price was low, many farmers made
the mistake of feeding it in too large
quantities, or rather, in too large pro-
portion to other kinds OF food. Cotton
seed meal is classedl with those foods
that are specially rich in albuminoids, as
peas, beans, palm-nut cake and linseed
cake, but excels them all in this respect.
Such foods are of most value, in an
economical point of view, when fed in
connection with cheap hay, that which
is over ripe, or grain, straw and the
: hay from our swamps. These are all
deficient in albuminoids, which is the
chief reason why animals kept exclu-
sively upon such fodder are always thin
in flesh and make slow growth. Of the
digestible matter in 100 pounds of corn
meal, 9 pounds are reckoned albumin
oids, 81 fat and 63.3 carbohydrates.
Cotton-seed i meal has 81 pounds
albuminoids, 1873 fat, and but 1873 car
bohydrates in a hundred. It will be
seen, by comparing the analyses Of diff
ferent kinds Of hay, that cotton-seed
meal bears arelation to corn meal sim.
liar to that between clover hay and hay
of otner kinds. Glover hay, best quail
ity, has 1917 albuminoids, 81 fat and
37.6 carbohydrates, while average En-
glish hay has but 5.4 of albuminoids, I
fat and Al. carbohydrates to the
100 pounds. There is another
view to be taken when +. con-
sidering the value of cottton-seed
meal as compared with other foods--its
manurial value. According to an
analysis made by DR., J. b. Lawes, cot
ton-seed is very valuable used directly
upon the soil as a fertilizer. He finds
of nitrogen $50, potash 3.12 and phos-
phoric acid seven pounds to the hundred
j weight. These figures bring the value
Of cotton-seed meal as fertilizer well
up to that of the commercial fertilizers
sold in our markets, and, when we re-
member that the richer the food the
richer the manure made from it, it be-
comes evident that cotton-seed meal
must be valuable ingredient in our