San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-27

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CoTTONSEED FOR COWS.
Results of Feeding Tests Conducted at the
Tennessee Experiment Station.

Results of Feeding Tests Conducted at the
Tennessee Experiment Station.
Some conclusions, which the results of
feeding tests conducted at the Tennessee
station during two winters appear to
justify, are thus stated in a bulletin is
sU 4 from the station:
We are convinced that, properly used,
cotton seed bulls from sound seed and
free of eXtraneous matter are a valuable
addition to our list of feed stuffs for
mich cows. We can recommend as
giving satisfactory results the use of as
much as Is pounds of cottonseed hulls
in the daily ration per 900 pounds live
weight. A larger proportion has with
our cows caused d weakening of the Iii.
gestive powers, evidenced in some cases
by tendency to diarrhea, in others to
constipation.
Cottonseed meal is the most valuable
of all the so called waste products used
as feed stuffs. 1t can be safely fed for
long periods, as much as five pounds per
day per !, 900 pounds live weight, in the
ration for cows giving milk. As the cow
approaches the time for calving the pro-
portion of cottonseed meal should not
exceed three pounds daily. We do not
think it advisable to feed more than five
pounds of cottOnseed meal daily to mich
cows. For butter making it is not adj
visable to exceed three pounds daily.
Many years of close observation else
where, as well as the results of recentex.
periments, induce the writer to believe
that it is not safe to feed cottonseed
meal as the sole addition to the daily al.
lowance of coarse folders, particularly
during the three months preceding and
the month after calviug.
Cottonseed meal and cOttonseed bulls
vary in quality and the percentage Of
nutriment, such variations being due to
the greater or less care in choice Of seed
Only such hulls as are taken from sound
seed, ginned from cotton fully matured
before killing frosts, should be used for
feedstuff. COttonseed meal especially
for milk cows, should be made only
from sound seed. carefully excluding all
that have been frozen and such as ara
ever SO little decayed. The meal when
pure is of deep yellow color and
smells clean.
Whole raw cotton seed are extensively
fed by farmers in the cotton growing
sections o Tennessee. The raw whole
seed cOntS an average of 1874 per cent
of fat, with only 1912 per cent of protein.
To use the whole seed with economy and
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not more than tive-and, better, not more
than fOur-pOunds can be used as a part
of daily ration. If cottonseed is sold
at Sl2 per ton, the farmer should buv
cottonseed meal at $3.50 per ton, and il
he is to pay S25 per ton for meal he
ought to get $l6,4 per ton for his seed
not to be n loser by the transaction
provided the protein, fat AMI other food
elements are equally as available in the
whole seed as in the meal. But it is
as difficult, even with the assistance Of
clover or peavine hay, Cornmeal, wheat
straw or corn fodder chaffed and other
coarse folders, to compound balanced
ration with raw cOttonseed which shall
be readily and completely eaten.
There is unavoidable waste of the fat
constituent of the seed. Unless, there.
fore, the difference between the figures
at which the seed can be sold and the
meal can be purchased is materially
larger than above stated, it is best to .
sell the seed and buy the meal.
No cotton grower should sell cotton
seed unless he buys its value in cotton.
seed meal or other feedstuffs or fertilizers.
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