Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-12-10
FARMER PLANTER.
FEEDING STOCK.
The Value OF Cotton Seed Halls as srock
Fond.

The Value OF Cotton Seed HILLS as Srock
Food.
While cotton-sced hulls are admitted
N all sides TO be an excellent rough
feed, do not think they have yet been
estimated high enough in comparison
with hay or other provender
Having fed large quantities for two
years, regard them being worth more,
pound for pound, than average Ber-
muda or other grass hay. feed per
day about eight to twelve pounds hulls,
four pounds wheat-bran and four
pounds cotton-seed meal, thoroughly
mixed together, with very satisfactory
results. This ration is very cheap,
about ten cents per day, and the yield
and quality of milk highly satisfactory.
Hulls are much more easily handled
than hay, and there is less waste in
feeding, as the cows eat up the hulls
very clean.
In the spring of 1890, about the time
thought there was getting to be abun-
dant grass in pasture, my hulls gave
out. The milk yield began to fall off
so that increased the bran and meal,
but never did |, during the whole
spring, get as good results as when !
used bulls. So consider huls fed in
connection with bran and cotton-seed
meal equal to tolerably ample Ber-
muda pasture as milk producer
Having found them such an excellent
food for cattle and knowing that cotton
seed meal is being fed to some extent to
horses, reasoned that hulls ought also
to be good for horses. So / procured
some corn meal, and by mixing only q
very small quantity of cotton-seed meal
and bulls with bran and corn meal, sue
ceeded in making them eat it. The
quantity of hulls and meal was in
creased gradually until each animal
consumed about three pounds of meal
and considerable hulls,
The oil mills have started up again,
and will commence right away to feed
hulls and meal to my horse stock. i
never succeeded in getting them to eat
hulls and meal without mixing with
well-fed animals can be made TO do so
or not. l will feed it as largely as |
can. 1t will very much lessen the ex-
pense of horse-feeding Eight cents a
day in hulls and meal will keep
thousand-pound work-ox fat. Why
should it not do the same for horse
of the same weight? We find horses and
oxen in their natural state eating the
same kinds of food. What difference
can exist between the digestive organs
of the two animals, that one can thrive
on food unsuited to the other? ] am
sure that the horses and mules that
work the cotton fields of the south will
eventually be fed largely on cotton
seed.
This writer can very well remember
(having been raised on cotton farm
80 miles from railroad) when teams
Of oxen would haul loads of cotton
away from the gin where hundreds OF
bushels of seed were rotting, and
would have to pull in addition, enough
$3.50 corn to eat on the trip, and i
| lnlSuU Dc tlu1 Illlo NSIy WdSoh Noui'
return loaded with western corn tC
feed the horses to make the next crop
Cotton seed was then thought to be nm
, fit for oxen. That was economy with {
, vengeance, but we are doing very mucl
, the same thing now.
! The south is paying literally million
Of dollars for horses, mules, corn
meat, hay and other products of othel
; sections, while the oil mills of tn
/, south are burning a million tons an
8 nually of the finest feed (c. S. hulls) TO
, want of purchasers at 81 to Si a ton
and that here in the land of cheap Goa
and wood.
Enough hulls burned, if fed to goo
class of animals, to, produce tw
hundred million pounds of beef, wort
| SO, 600, 900; or, if mixed with it'll
e more skill and made into butter, t.
, produce $l2, 10000 worth. If made T.
= take place of the hay, corn and oat
+ purchased abroad, the saving would b
i enormous, probably S2O,OOO,O0O at tn
t prices prevailing the past year.-W {
L Welborn, in Southern Farm