The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-24
An EmcacIous Remedy.

solution of it's free use as a feed STUFF
is Of prime Importance to the feeders of
the United States.
The continued feeding Of so rich food
| containing an excess of fat and carbohy-
| drates-as hulls and meal do-has a ten
dency to induce constipation, mal-nutri-
tion and abortion in cows and heifers.
| When the vulva of the heifers begin to
swell freely it is weel 10 change the food
for a time.
When it is remembered that this meal
is fed in many instances out Of all pro-
portion of the wants of the system and
| without any cooling or soothing laxative
food, such as silage or roots, TO counter
act and keep the digestive organs free
| from obstruction, it is not surprising that
evil results should follow.
Nearly all the cattle in this state are
fed in open paddocks, the meal and hulls
being placed in feeding troughs at the
rate of from ten to fourteen pounds OF
meal apiece a day, SO that a few sick
animals from this treatment may be eN-
pected but it is a question if more than
| an average death occurs from the NUM-
Der handled.
As to the danger of feeding cotton seed
meal to cattle; when it has been fed sue
| cessfully to our cows for a number OF
years, and when nearly or quite all the
cattle that are shipped from the SOUTH
west to the Chicago markets are fed on
meal and hulls exclusively, no stronger
argument could be used to convince the
northern farmer of the groundless nature
of his fears.
Cattle when. first brought in from the
sparse pastures of the plains will almost
starve before they will touch this food
but when they once become accustomed to
it, eat it with avidity, and it may natural
ly may be expected that some evil er-
fects will follow from their consuming
an over-supply of so concentrated food
In an animal of strong constitution this
may not be apparent for some time, but
eventually it will affect the system caus-
ing it to break down.
The most satisfactory rations found
here are as follows: In feeding steers,
for the opening periods four to six pounds
of meal with hulls ad libitum; increasing
to six to eight pounds even ten of meal
toward the finishing period. For winter
rations for dairy cows six pounds meal,
ten pounds hulls, twenty to twenty-five
pounds silage. Southern corn, being
thoroughly mature, has a higher nutri-
tive value, and cattle will not eat nearly
as much of it here as they do in the north.
Other rules are: One pound of meal to
four to five pounds of hulls for fattening
steers; or one-fourth to one-half pound
of meal per 100 pounds of live weight,
and other adjuncts to suit. In steer feed
ing experiments here, the ration making
a pound of gain at the least cost was;
% Boiled cotton seed and silage. () Meal
and hulls. go Meal, hulls and silage.
The trouble from cotton seed meal feed
ing seldom appears before ninety days,
and then is very often due to the inju-
dicious feeding practiced. An expert
ment, carried on here for $50 days the past
winter with eight steers, where the meal
exceeded eight
to ten pounds, With hulls ad libitum, was
not attended with any i'll effects. And
since COWS have been fed as high as ten
pounds of meal for considerable periods
without injury, where rational system
of feeding is pursued there is little dam
ger to be apprehended.
The people of the north are prejudced
against this food, and accordingly have
never fed it in sufficient quantity to
achieve the best success with it. Then, for
several other reasons, 1t should be fed
there with less danger than here. Pro-
TEN is so much cheaper here than there
that the farmer can afford to feed what
may be termed extravagant rations, and
even with less satisfactory results than
if more bulky folders were used in con-
junction, because he can get this food so
much cheaper than he can grow by-prod-
ucts to feed with the meal.
In the north the system is just the re-
substances are the cheapest, so that cot
ton seed meal, being so concentrated, will
take the place of that portion of the ration
to good advantage. as hulls would never
pay to transport to feed with the meal,
though experience here has shown them
to combine better with the meal than with
any other food stuff for fattening pur-
poses.
Another reason why meal can be fed at
the north with greater immunity is be-
cause of the long cold feeding period, for
it should not be forgotten that any trou-
BILE from feeding it here generally does
not appear until warm weather and
seems to be aggravated by it. The sys-
tenn of farming so long pursued in the
south has educated her farmers to one
line of usbandry-cotton farming; conse-
quently they do not handle food with the
skill and judicious management of the
northern feeder; hence here is another
element of danger eliminated there but
found here.