St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-03-10
FARMER AND PLANTER.
THE VALUE OF COTTON SEED.
Seed and Cotton Seed Meal AID
Their Results.

| The Mississippi experiment station,
in bulletin No. 60, gives details of eN-
peIiments in feeding cotton seed and
cotton seed meal variously compound
ed with other feed stuffs with the OBJ
| ject of determining the value of cotton
| seed to the farmer. The following re-
suits and deductions constitute the in
| PRODUCTION to the main body of the
| bulletin:
1Gtroduction-The results of feeding
| tests with cotton seed, cotton seed
meal and corn, which are given in this
bulletin, are worthy of careful study
| by the farmers of this state. The
| facts, as demonstrated. are: "a a
| pound of cotton seed has greater
value for feeding cattle than pound
of corn; CD a pound of cotton seed
meal has feeding value about equal
to two pounds of corn; (3) that at
least SIS per cent. OF the fertilizing in
gradients in the feeds is excreted by
the animals fed, and may be recovered
in the manure; (D that nearly half of
the fertilizing ingredients eNcreted is
found in the urine; 90 that both cot
ton seed and cotton seed meal may
constitute a very important part of the
grain feed of cattle without injury to
their health; (6) that cotton seed and
cotton seed meal, when fed to dairy
COWS in proper quantity, and properly
combined with other feeds, do not in
jurc the quality of either milk or but
ter.
Value of ton of cotton seed-With
corn at 40 cents per bushel (about the
average price in this STATED ton of
cotton seed is worth $16.70 as a feed,
for either beef cattle or dairy cattle.
y. present prices for commercial fer
tili2ers nitrogen costs about twelve
cents per pound, and phosphoric acid
and potash each five cents per pound.
Allowing these prices for the same in
gradients in manure, we have $500 as
the fertilizing value of the manure for
each ton of seed fed, making for
farmer a total value per ton of $3.50.
Farmers sell their seed for four to six
dollars per ton. Some of them sell for
two dollars per ton.
Value of a ton of cotton seed NEAL
In a similar way we find the feeding
value of ton of cotton seed meal to
b. $3.50, and the manure to be worth
$l?.E; for every ton of meal con-
sumed, making Il total value of S47.6S
that farmer might derive per ton by
first feeding the meal to cattle and APP
plying the manure TO his land.
Value of the cotton seed crop-Mis-
sissippi produced, in 1s07-9S, 1.627 900
bales of cotton. This gave 100000 tons
OF seed which had combined feeding
and manurial value of $50, 6S2, 900. Had
the entire crol. been sold for SIS per
ton. it would have brought only ST.
CO0.Ouo
The cotton crop for the south the
same year was 11,200,G00 bales and s.
630.G0c tons of seeed. having a COM
bined feeding and fertilizing value of
Sit4 i2l 900. At SIS per ton the seed
would have brought S2s.OOO.OOO. The
farmers of Mississippi lost SIG. 1852 900
on this one crop, and the farmers of
the entire cotton belt lost $l16,424,-
Geo..
Small oil mills-The present DISPOSE
ton of the cotton seed crop secures to
the farmer a very small part of its
rea. value. and must of necessity give
place TO a practice that will secure to
the farmer the maximum benefit which
he may derive from this product
The time will come when the south
err farmer will realize that the fertil-
ling value in cotton seed must stay
on the farm to maintain its fertility
and productiveness.
lie will not always regard the mat
ter OF hauling as of no consequence
as something which he can do without |
cost. If the best disposition of cotton
seed is finally demonstrated to be to |
extract the oil for human food and |
other commercial purposes, and let the |
meal and hulls go back to the farms
to serve both as food and fertilizer,
then. most likely, there will be a small |
ci! mill at each ginnery and oil and |
lint will be the only products of the
cotton crop sent to market.
The southern farmer. however, need |
nos wait for oil mills. He may get the |
full value of his cotton seed by Judi |
cious system of feeding, accompanied |
by the most careful saving and proper |
use uf the manure.