The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-12-14
Cotton Seed Hulls % Stsck Food.

While cotton seed hulls are admitted
on all sides to be an excellent rough feed,
l do not think they have yet been esti-
mated high enough in comparison with
hay or other provendeH.
Having fed large quantities for two
years, l regard them being worth more
pound for pound than average bermuda
or other grass hay. I feed per day about
8 to IL pounds hulls, pounds wheat
bran and pounds cotton seed meal,
thoroughly mixed together, with very
satisfactory results. This ration is very
cheap, about 10 cents per day, and the
yield aud quality of milk highly salts
factory. Hulls are much more easily
hsudIed than hay and there is less waste
in feeding, IS the COWS will eat up the
hulls very cleau.
In the spring of 1890, about the time I
thought there WAS getting to be abundant
grass in pasture, my hulls gave out. The
milk yield began to fall off so that 1 in
creased the bran and meal, but never did
I, during the whole spring, get IS good
results as when used hulls. So con-
slider bulls (fed in connection with bran
and cotton seed mesl) equal 10 tolerably
ample bermuda pasture as q milk pro-
ducer.
Having found them such an excellent
food for cattle and knowing that cotton
seed meal il being fed to some extent to
horses, 1 reasoned that hulls ought also
to be good for horses. So I procured
some corn meal, and by mixing only 8
very small quantity of cotton seed meal
and bulls with bran and corn meal, sue
ceeded in making them eat it. The
quantity of hnlls and meal WAS increased
gradually uutil each animal consumed
about three pounds of meal and consid-
erable hulls.
The oil mills have started up again,
and 1 will commence right away to feed
huls and meal to my horse stock. !
never succeeded in getting them to eat
hulls aad meal without mixing with
other food, and do not know whether a
we'll fed animal can be made to do so or
not. will feed it as largely as l can'
1t will very much lessen the expense OF
horse feeding. Eight cents a day in
hulls and raoal will keep thousand.
pound work OK fat. 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 ono can thrive on
food uusuised to the other 2 / am sure
that the horues and mules that work the
cotton fields of the South will eventually
be fed largely on cotton seed.
This writer can very veil remember
(bsving been raised on q cotton farm 81
miles from a railroad) when teams Of
oxen would haul loads of cotton away
from the gin where hundreds OF bushels
of seed were rotten, and would have to
pull in addition, enough sl.5O corn 10
sct on the trip, and it might be that this
vsry wagon would return loaded with
Western corn to feed the horses on to
make the next crop. Cotton seed was
then thought to be unfit for oxen. That
WAS economy With q vengeance, but We
are doing much the same thing now.
The South is paying literally millions
of dollars for horses and mules. corn,
meat, hay and other products of other
sections, while the oil mills of the South
are burning million tons annually OF
the finest feed (c. 8. hulls) for want Of
purchasers =, 81 to 81 q ton, and that
here in the land of cheap coal and wood
Enough hu!ls are burned, if fed to 8
good class of animals, to produce two
hundred million pounds Of beef, worth
six million dollars; OF, if mixed with 8
little moro skill and made into butter, to
produce twelve million dollars worth. II
made to take the place of the hay, corn
and oats, purchased abroad, the saving
would bs enormous, probably twenty
million dollars at the prices prevailing
the past year,-W c. Welborn, IN 'S0'tth
ern Farm,