The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-11-29
QUEEN COTTONSEED.
The New Cereal and It's Place in Agri'
culture and Manu- factures.

culture and Manufactures.
BY Edwin Lehman johnson.
Wherever reference has been made
to feeding cottonseed it was always
meant that the seed should by some
means be separated into its component
parts and fed intelligently in some
thing at least approaching proper
proportions of protein, fat and
carbohydrates. ....
A common old wives ration In the
backwoods of the South for a COW is
three gallons of boiled cottonseed per-
diem.
TABLE No. 12.
THREE RAT1oNs FOR 1o0oLB. COW PER DIEM.
IA Very Unbalanced Ration.
9 gallons al lbsY Hulls, lbs. Total. 2.% lbs;
comprise: ION, quart. too much.
"a Rough and Ready Balanced Ration.
Hnis Hsiss mss, Ms MsaI lbs Nutrtiss asis ss:'i0
2-Wollfs Germany Standard Balanced Ratio.
Total protein Mat5ti7e
n 4 lSs e AgE EaS. Sta. Bulletin. lIs; s4d 's
A quart of oil, with nine pounds of
dry matter, is probably the most un-
balanced ration ever offered man or
beast for steady diet.
The truth is that nature does not
pack the cottonseed as feed, and art
must unpack the seed before 1t can be
fed economically or safely. Many
experiment stations have tried feeding
whole cottonseed raw, boiled and
roasted, but this has not proved salts
factory, and Harry Hammond of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture In Bulletin 33, page 3Sl, thus
sums up the matter: "The products
of the seed when separated in the
manufacture of oil are far more valu-
able and available as food for man or
beast, or as fertilizer, than they are
in the lump in raw cottonseed:"
This discloses the co!tonseed's posi-
ton in manufactures. Unless some
new and better method shall be invel-
ted all the cottonseed grown, except
planting seed, should be sent to and
passed through the oil mill in order to
convert the unusable cottonseed into q
cheap, wholesome and nutritious feed
for. cattle and shep, and into fat
suitable for human use and con-
sequently its highest-priced use.
The oil mills should receive the plant
er's cottonseed, divide 1t up into its
component parts, hulls, meal, lint and
oil return the planter as much as he
needs and can use Of each Of these,
charging them up against the account
and endeavor to sell what the planter
cannot use to pay
/. Cost of manufacture.
2. A fair manufacturers profit.
8. Freights to and from the planta-
ton.
4. A bonus to the planter.
AS there are some 225 separate, dis
tinct and independent oil mills. beside
about 100 belonging to few larger
companies, more than enough to crush
all the cottonseed now grown without
a single new mill, and all of them
scrambling for seed enough to keep
going from three to six months In the
year, it Is plain that the planter may
receive from this extraordinary COM
petition all benefit that comes from
good prices for products under division
4 (bonus) above, 80 soon as l., z ana
are satisfied. 1t is plain, therefore,
that self-interest should LEAD the
planters and all residents of the cotton
States who invariably share In the
planters good fortune to 90 their
utmost to promote the market for COT
tonseed products.
The present low price of oil, about
two cents per pound, will not, even at
the present low price of seed, twelve
and one-half cents per bushel, pay
more than division / (cost of manufac-
ture) and 2 reasonable profit. From
one and one-half to two cents per
pound more, or total of three to three
and one-half cents per pound (twenty,,
one and one-half to twenty-slx and
one-quarter cents per gallon), must De
realized for the oil, or an equivalent
added from the sale of the other pro-
ducts, before division 3 (frelghts TO
and from the plantation) can be cover
ed and the planter can receive any
direct benefit from the extraction OF
the oil or bonus over the actual feTtl-
lizing value of his cottonseed.* he
does receive. however, large lnolrect
vale from the better mechanical COZ
dition of the products and their adap-
liability for feed, while the 80 per cent.
profit he can make from the double
use of the meal and bulls as feed and
fertilizer Is sufficient to cover the
freights both ways. The planter,
therefore, who exchanges seed for
hulls and meal will at least come out
even. and if there be any profit in cat
tie feeding and manuring, will be that
much ahead.
sThese estimates are based upon conditions
OF more than year ago.