The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19

POUNDS TO Gne mlIl and 500 pounds back
home. This rate will pay for short
haul where at least two tons of seed
can be exchanged in one day by one
team for one ton Of meal. Calculated
in this way the seed is sold at 164 cents
per bushel and the team has a value of
nearly So 90 C$2 96) for making the ex-
change.
Suppose this same value be allowed
the team for moving the seed in case it
is sold and the price be increased by
80 much per bushel, the price to CORE
spond should be $11 16 plus 81 48 or
$12 64 per ton, which for 668 bushels is
18 96 cents per bushel This is in con-
sideration of no other factors than the
fertilizing values of the seed end giving
for transportation simply what the
mill offers as an inducement to haul
the seed in exchange. If the seed is
sold, the price at present rates for the
value given for potash, phosphoric
acid and nitrogen should not be less
than 10 cents per busbel. But theirs
are other factors yet to be considered
which will tend to advance that price.
There is a feeding value not easy of
definition which will considerably ad-
vance the price of seed wherever the
cotton farmer is paying proper atten-
tion to stock and where well bred cat
tie and sheep are fed for the dairy, beef,
mutton and wool. The feeding value
may be approximated to a certain ex
| tent by a comparison of heat eQuiva-
lents as found from the digestible por
tion Of each. The large amount OF oil
in the whole seed unduly increasing
this value of The seed while the large
amount of protein in the meal specially
fits 1t to become the most economical
food to balance" coarse carbonaceous
foods that are plentiful on nearly every
farm. The meal is worth more in com
parisOn with seed than can be thus
shown, but it is far from being worth
two for one to feed stock. Third, the
value of cotton seed meal just mentioned
has come to be recognized far and vide.
1t is sought for because it is so rich in
protein that a small amount goes g
long way in producing rational ration
with the cUarse foods common on
farms in the first place, and in the sec
ond place because it has long been the
cheapest Of foods in the market in COM
pairing the values received for the mar
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serious attention of the farmers, mer-
chants and oil mill men should be
directed to this fact and immediate
steps taken to push up the price to a
reasonable point. This may decrease
the demand for cotton seed meal, but
| If the difference is added to the price
of seed it will go step toward undo
ing the wrong done to the cotton grow
ers by taking valuable article from
him at half its worth and handing it
over to some oDe else at three fourths
it's value. If it we're the avowed pur-
pose Of the dealers in cotton seed and
its products to break down the cotton
growing sections financially, no surer
way could be devised than the present
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and lmpoverishing tillers, while at
present nothing like an adequate value
ls being returned to those who sell their
seed.
A ton of cotton seed meal, no better
than some which has been found to
contain protein SO. so per cent. available
phosphoric acid 2 AZ per cent, and
potash LIS per cent, carries in itself
what according to present valuations
is worth and will cost the farmer $25 40
in commercial fertilizers. At the same
rates the seed is worth $11 Is per ton.
If A accepts less than that amount for
his seed he yields up the difference
from the soil, and gives his labor spent
in making sale and delivery.
Third This article from your farms
sold, as has long been done at less than
its value and recently at very far less
than it's value, tends to return against
dairy men at least, in crushing compe-
titiOn. AS long as this continues to be
sold so cheap every farmer should turn
feeder of beef, mt Gton, and dairy stock
and insist on buying at the same rates
per car load that the meal brings t. o.
b when started North. This last is
for non cotton raising farmers. Those
who raise cotton should feed their
seed, and exchange it for meal at two
for one of meal, feed all possible and
use the balance for direct application
to the soil at less than Is or cents per
bushel.
A large proportion of farmers have
but very inadequate idea of the value