Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-28
FOOD PROPER TIES
OF COTTON SEED
facts the Farmers Woulddo Well
to Profit BY.
SOMETHING ABOUT VALUES
As Compared With Wheat and Corn ysIu-
able as Milk and Flesh Producer r..
tsrestins Experiment.. by tho state
Chemist of Georgia. Mr.. John NJ. Mo.
0andiess. as Given in an Article recent.
~ Published in the Southern Farmer.
wilmington star,

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Wilmington Star.)
"A snort time ago we published an az.
ticie on the food properties Of cotton
seed as compared with whaa, rr,,o
following. which we clip from tha
Charleston News and Courier thro,ys
some light on its value as compares
with corn. and may be of interest," 70
cotton growers and stock raisers.
I'm view of the short cron. =, 80.
corn and cotton in this region
generally Will derive some very hainsnI
instruction as to the relative vaina 80
cotton seed, cotton seed meal and con-
as 1000 for cattle. especially dairy and
oesi cattle, from statement ON the
subject recently published in the
Southern Farmer by Mr.. John NJ NIno
Sandless. State chemist of ceoryia s
We give the substance of the article 4
Inc experiments reported were
MADE by the Mississippi Agricultural
station. In the first instance. these
experiments were made with different
lots OF cows, which We're fed on ra tions
consisting of peavine hay. siIa s-s
wheat bran, cotton seed, cotton seed
meal and corn and cob meal, the pro-
portion of these ingredients yarvinr
in each case. and the experiments Cow
ering each period of four weeks. The
several results obtained are stated az
follows: $50 90
SIX pounds of whole cotton seed arc
superior to three pounds of cotton seed
meal, both as milk and flesh prod,,cers
Three and a half pounds of meal are
Just about equal to six pounds of seefj =
SIX pounds of seed are not equal tn
-FOUR pounds OF meal. One pound Of
| meal LII pounds of cotton seed. ~.
I'm the second set of experiments
cotton seed was first compared direct
| iy with corn and cob meal, and then
cotton seed meal; the other ingredients
OF the rations remaining the same The
| results are as follows.
| SIX pounds of cotton seed gave a
better yield of milk than six pounds OF
corn and cob meal. Six pounds of cot
ton seed meal gave better results than
eight pounds of corn and cob meal.
Six pounds of corn and cob gave gave
as much milk as eight pounds of the
| same meal. 5-s
Three pounds of cotton seed meal
equal six pounds of corn and cob meal.
and as satisfactory yields of milk az
eight pounds of corn and cob meal but
the latter caused the cows to fatten.
Three and half pounds OF cotton seed
meal are better than six or eight
pounds of corn and cob meal In the
dairy rationS used In we'll balanced
dairy ration two pounds OF corn and
cob meal are about equal to one pound
or cotton seed meal. &
Summarizing: ~ One pound Of
cotton seed Is equal to LII pounds OF
corn and cob meal or to 05S Of q pound
of cotton seed meal. 2) One pound of
cotton seed meal Is equal to LII pounds
and cob meal. (3) One pound OF corn
and cob meal is equal to one-half
pound of cotton seed meal. or to 0.S5
of n pound OF cotton seed"
The Mississippi Station concludes the
report OF It's investigation as follows:
tf,or Tn
is worth 40 cents per bushel or $14.2S
n ton, cotton see meal should be worth
27.S cents a bushel, or $3.50. and cotton
seed meal s2S.56 a ton. II cotton
seed is worth 10 cents bushei.
or Sc ton. corn should be worth
Of cents a bushel. or $50 cents a ton,
and cotton seed meal should be worth
S10.26 n ton. When cotton seed meal IS
worth SIG ton cotton seed should Do
worth 16.4 cents a bushel, or 9.2S q ton,
and corn meal should be worth l4.3
cents n bushel, or IS ton. Thus you
see that the three conclusions above
are valuable to you, because they efftt
BILE you to calculate for yourself wheth<
err you can afford to feed corn TO your
cattle. and from the above figures ft
appears that you cannot afford TO DO SO
at all at any price per bushel that corn
ever sells at in this section OF the coun-
try. because its feeding value is so rag
below It's money value when compared
with the feeding value and money
value of cotton seed and cotton seed
meal.
Conclusion No. / also enables yoY
to tell when you are getting faie
value for your cotton seed. For ins
stance. If cotton seed meal is worth s2f
a ton. then cotton seed should bring
21.2 cents per bushel at sixty bushels
to the ton, for It's feeding value aS
compared with the feeding value OF
meal
In the light of these importans
facts Mr.. Chandless thinks 1t Is ass
tonlshing that no experiments appear
to have been made to see whether
horses and mules will not eat cotton
seed and cotton seed meal and hullss
one or both; and. IL not vOsSntarily,
whether they could he trained to do so
by mixing them gradually, by slowly
Increasing degrees. with corn and oats
and hay He promises to have the
matter tested at the Georgia Station.