The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-05-31
I hope you wiz NOW go back and care.

Auily read again my previous letters
and nix in your mind the explanations
there given of the various terms, which
are used in the above table of analyses,
what protein is and what function it
nils in the animal economy, building
muscle and lean meat. blood, nerves.
hair, tendons and even part of the
bones. also the Office of the carbohy-
drates and the fat producing fat, in the
body, keeping up its heat and produc-
Ing force or energy. You will then
Letter understand the table just given.
This is a short table selected from nu.
merous analyses, as containing the ma.
terials most likely to be met with on
the average southern farm and used for
the feeding of stock.
The above table does not give the
complete analysis OF the fee ling stuffs
mentioned, but gives the digsstible
matter IN 100 pounds of each feed. For
instance. the complete analysis of cot.
tonseed meal is as follows: Water 81
per cent, ash 7.2 per cent, protein AZ. 8
per cent, carbohydrates 292 per cent,
fat ID. per cent, or total 100 per cent
BY referring TO the table, however, you
will see that about five pounds of the
protein is indigestible aud about
Is pounds OF the car 5ohydrates
are also indigestible, The figures in
the above table h. We been obtained by
careful feeding exp,r me It's. and are
the result of much painstaking, careful,
conscientious work, and are therefore
very valuable as being practical in the
best sense. Only that part of the food
is OF valus to the animal which passes
into the circulation, after being acted
on by the fluids OF the stomach and in.
testines, and being taken up by the
blood goes to repair the waste OF the
body, to make new flesh, to add fat, or
to serve as source of energy or work.
In preparing these tables OF digesti-
BILE matter the experimenters carefully
weighed the animals at the beginning
OF each experiment.. carefully analysed
the rations fed 20 them, carefully saved
every drop of liquid and solid of the
dung and urine and analysed them,
and then by studiously comparing all
the results, calculated the indigestible
matter in 100 pounds of each feed stuff
and these percentages they called the
digestion coefficlents." Such tables
as these are the basis OF scientific feed.
ing. Little as you may think Of it this
subject is of the utmost practical i'm.
portance. not only to the agricultural
community, but to the general prosper.
ity of the nation.
The experience OF the past decade has
demonstrated. and hope conclusively
to our farmers at least. that the day has
passed when their exclusive attention
can be devoted to the production Of one
crop, and that crop. one which is not
essential to the life of man; at least in
the way in which it is at present han.
died, it is only conducive to the com.
fort Of the human family as raiment.
but it can be so handled as to minister.
not only to their comfort but to the de.
velopment and sustenance Of life itself
To explain my meaning in as few words
rs possible, is this, that we have been
raising cotton for the sake of its fiber.
to be spun into cloth, when we should
have been raising ii for the sake of its
precious seed. born into the world in a
manner BETTING its royal origin as the
son of King Cotton. swaddhed and en-.
ctrcled in the downiest fur and not ma.
he'd and forlorn as Is the wont OF earthly
princelings 1t does seem as if this
Jealous care Of Mother Nature should
have made rs recognize earlier the great
value Of the little seed which she
wrapped up so carefully. AS said,
We have been raising II for the sake Of
its fibre to be spun into cloth when we
should have been raising is chiefly for
ths sake OF the protein and carbohy.