The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-07-30
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR
CATTLE
Pointers That Are Of Vital Interest to the
lJp.to.dste Farmer. Money In DahyinS.

What has cotton to do with DAIRY
Ing? Cotton seed products nave ce.
come the most popular food stun ios
cattle. because of the low price Anu
the most excellent results. Tney aIe
ihe natural cattle feed for the cotton
region. on account Of saving IN Ireish'
and the easy and convenient aScso'
Strange to say. the value or these plo
ducts was not first discovered IN .ne
scientists to point out their great
value. German agriculturists are al
ways standing ready to make use OIL
the discoveries Of science. ana SO they
inported vast quantities OF cotton seeo
meal from this country and used IL lor
cattle feed in their dairies years oelore
our own people woke up 10 the srea.
possibilities In cotton seed meai as =
feed stun. But 1t Is now very we"
known that cotton seed meal. In con-
nection with cotton seed hulls, make
the most valuable cattle foods that are
available. especially that offered py
the Southern Cotton Oil company Oh
the Carolinas and Georgia. at any OF
their mills or at their Headquarters at
Columbia. S. c.. Savannah. Ca. Al
lanta. Ga. or Raleigh. n. c.
There is one fact In connectlon VIII
cattle feeding on cotton seed products
thai is not generally given the prom
inence that its importance demands.
This Is the value Of the manure.
Most exhaustive experiments nave
been made. both In this country ano IN
i:urope. with u view to finding the
relation between the feed and the re-
sulting excrement from cattle. a
most important and far-reaching con-
clusion has been reached. ana IL u
one which does not admit or any
doubt. This Is that practically all OF
the nitrogen that Is fed to cattle re-
appears in the excrement: about half
in the solid and half In the liquid.
Nitrogen In the most expensive 1ngre-
iient in all food stuffs, and In all Ter
ti.zers. Hence this discovery Is u
most important one. leading 10 the
astounding fact that the present COM
mercial value Of cotton seed meal as
feed stuff Is but half Its real value.
when properly understood. II means
that the full value Of the nitrogen In
the meal may be utilized In feeding.
and then, IL sufficient care be taken 10
save solid and liquid manure the wnoie
of the nitrogen may be collected anu
used again as a manure. There IL
further value in this. In that the FORM
OF the nitrogen in this manure, taken
with the other elements. chemtcai ana
mechanical. makes the manure pet
ter fertilizer than the original meal.
The general statement that practi-
caIiy ali of the nitrogen fed to cattle
reappears In the excrement might lead
TO the conclusion (which would be
easily seif-contradictory) that nitrogen
feeds are Of no value to cattle. and that
IL is in no way assimilated or made use
Of by the animal economy. Nothing Is
more firmly established than that nitro
genous feeds are most important. In
Aoa hfffar.
is not vet well understood how the an
Imal uses the nitrogen and then ex-
cretes II. It may be that the nitrogen
from the air Is utilized. or II may be
that through some transformation In
the system the nitrogen does its work.
and Is then rejected.
There is a perfect analogy In the use
Of nitrogen in making sulphuric acid.
II Is necessary to supply a certain
amount OF nitrogen to make the process
operative. and yet all Of this nitrogen Is
either recovered or lost. none Of IL
actually being retained In the sulphuric
acid.
The cotton plant requires large
amount Of nitrogen, and this may be
supplied with the manure from dairy
cattle, which themselves feed on cotton
products, and In the interim. turn out
large amounts Of valuable milk cream
and butter. Then dairying on the cot
ton farm becomes a logical occupation.
There are now many cotton seed oil
mills Of the Southern Cotton Oil Co. so
widely scattered that IL Is easy for any
cotton farmer to trade his cotton seed
| for meal and hulls. and thus provide
| himself with valuable feed stuffs for
dairy or beef cattle. and incidentally
procure the very best fertilizer that Is
known--the manure from cattle main
| tained on nitrogenous feeds.
Aside from all considerations Of ma
nurial value. the relative feed value Of
| cotton seed meal and hulls Ii shown
below. in connection with relative value
OF other feed stuffs In the following ex-
| tract from a table In the book Cotton
and Cotton OIL" by D. A. Tompkins.
Relative NutritiYe