The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-18
Cotton.seed Meal.

dence of one of the patrons OF q CO.
operative creamery q few days since at
the time of the daily visit of the cream
gatheIer who said that he was directed
TO notify all patrons of the: creamery
that thereafter no cream would be ac-
cepted from farmers who fed their cows
with cotton-seed meal. This notifica-
ton led me to inquire into this farmers
manner of feeding, the. profits of the
he would pursue in consequence of the
notice. He said that he told the cream
gatherer that he should not change his
feed, whether he took his cream or not;
that he had been feeding but q pint of
cotton-seed meal a day to each COW, and
he did not believe the astute butter
maker with his six weeks experience in
making butter, knew anv more than he
did with an experience of forty years
in feeding cows and making butter. He
then said that one of his neighbors in
formed him that since he began to feed
cotton-seed meal he was making one
eighth more butter from the same num-
,ber of COWS, and that he could better
afford to sell his butter at a less price
than. to discontinue the use of cotton
seed meal. This led me to inquire as
to the returns he was receiving from
the creamery for his product. He replied:
" Before ! sent my cream to the factory
l was getting thirty-five. cents pound
for my butter, for all could make, and
my customer was disappointed when I
stopped sending it to him. From the
creamery 1 do not expect to get more
than twenty-five cents per pound. 1
also lose 800 pounds of buttermilk for
the month of December, or, in other
words, shall pay twenty dollars for
making my butter for the month and
lose 800 pounds of buttermilk, which
latter would have about paid me for
making the butter at home.n / was told
that the first lot of butter from the
creamery brought forty cents per pound,
and that the second lot brought thirty
five cents, which was probably the rea-
son for the PRONUNCIATION of the edict
forbidding the use of cotton-seed meal,
and which also led one of the directors
of the aforementioned creamery asso-'
citation to visit all of the patrons of the
creamery, to inquire into the methods
of feeding, to look at the milk-setting
apparatus, and to note the cleanliness
or the want of it among the different
patrons. IL is worthy of note here that
this director was led 10 remark that he
found the patrons were feeding less
cOtton-seed meal than when they were
making the forty-cent butter.
Similar testimony would be given by
large majority of the butter-makers of
Franklin County, where large quanti-
ties of cotton-seed meal is fed to milch
cows, and where the use of it is steadily
increasing. The testimony is that when
fed judiciously, it increases the quantity
of milk, and improves the quality of
butter. A Franklin County farmer told
me while since that he was feeding
his cows four quarts, each, daily, that
he was making ninety pounds of butter
per week, and that it netted him thirty
seven cents per pound. He said that he
continued to feed the meal through the
summer, while his cows were at pasture.
Although would not advise feeding so
large q quantity as this man did, yet
believe it to be a valuable feed. prefer
to iced it in connection with other kinds
of grain, and am at present feeding q
mixture of cob-meal, wheat bran, rye
and cotton-seed meal. The intention is
that each COW shall receive three pInts
of the cotton-seed meal per day. Having
fed cotton seed meal more or less for
twenty-five years, / am prepared to
speak in its favor. For fattening stock,
there is no danger in feeding It more
freely, and would give any fully-grown
animal from four to six quarts day, or
even more If mixed with an equal
amount of some lighter feed, as cob
meal or bran, or both. I have learned
from experience that fatteuing animals
are fed more economically when fed
with = variety of grains, especially, when
the animal is being fed all it will bear.
During the last year there has been
considerable cotton-seed meal brought
into the valley which is not the best.
The best meal is finely ground and of
quite yellowish cast, sweet to the smell
and taste, and readily dissolves when
put into the mouth. The poorer class
is red, or greenish in color, smelling
strongly, not ground finely, and contains
what appears to be a portion of the
seed-hulls, which are very objections
BILE. 1 am not sure but that the latter
described article may be just as good
for fertilizing purposes, but should
not advise any one to purchase such for
feeding. While speaking of the value
of feed for a fertilizer, the thought is
suggested, that according to Professor
Laws's, or Professor Harris's ANALYSIS
of the fertilizing value of different kinds
of feed, cotton-seed meal is worth the
market price of it to-day for that pur-
| pose. Then when we consider that
when used as feed it loses but from five
to ten per cent. of its value by passing
through the animal, we see that its
value as nutrition is not its only value.
My experience in feeding the meal for
so long time has given me a preiudics
in favor of what we call 'Memphis
meal, !" or that which is ground in Mem
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