The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-07-30
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR
CATTLE.
Pointers That Are of Vital Interest to the
Up.to. date Farmer. Money in Da!rynS.


What has cotton to do with dairy
ing? Cotton seed products nanG tf per
come the most popular food stun loI
cattle, because of the low price ana
the most excellent results. They are
the natural cattle feed for the cotton
region, on account Of saving IN 1re1Sht
and the easy and convenient access.
Strange to say, the value OF these pro-
ducts was not first discovered in their
native home. 1t remained tor German
scientists to point out their Sreat
value. German agrlculturlstS are al
wavs standing ready to make use OF
the discoveries; of science, and so they
imDorted vast quantities OF cotton seed
meal from this country and used 1t Tor
cattle feed in their dairles years before
our own people woke up to lhe great
possibilities in cotton seed meal as Il
feed stuff But it is now very we'll
known that cotton seed meal, IN con-
nection with cotton SEED nuns, MAKE
the most valuable cattle FOODS thal are
available, especially that offered py
the Southern Cotton on company %
the Carolinas and Georgia, at any OIL
their mills or at their headquarters al
Columbia, S. c., Savannah, Ca, Al
lanta, Ca, or Raleigh, n. G.
There is one fact in connection with
ca, feeding on cotton seed products
that IS not generally given the prom
inence that it's Importance demands.
This is the value of the manure.
Most exhaustive experiments nave
been made, both in this country and IN
Europe. with a view to finding the
relation between the feed and the re-
sulting eXcrement from cattle.
most important and far-reaching con-
clusion has been reached, and it is
one which does not admit Of 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 is the most expensive lngle-
dent in all food stuffs, and in all fer
tilizers. Hence this discovery is
most important one, leading to the
astounding fact that the present COM
mercial value of cotton seed meal as
feed stuff is but half it's real value,
when properly understood. II means
that the full value of the nitrogen III
the meal may be utilized in feeding.
and then, if sufficient care be taken to
save solid and liquid manure the whole
of the nitrogen may be collected and
used again as a manure. 4nere IS
further value in this, in that the form
of the nitrogen in this manure, taken
with the other elements, chemical ana
mechanical, makes the manure bet
ter fertilizer than the original meal.
The general statement that practl-
cally all of the nitrogen fed to cattle
reappears in the eXcrement might lead
to the conclusion (Which would be
easily lf-contradictory) that nitrogen
feeds are Of no value to cattle, and that
it is in no way assimilated or made use
of by the animal economy. Nothing IS
more firmly tablished than that nitro
genous feeds are most important, III
producing both beef and butter; but it
is not vet we'll understood how the an
imal uses the nitrogen and then eX-
cretes it. It may be that the nitrogen
from the air is utilized. or it 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.
It 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 1T
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 valuab BILE 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
" idely scattered that it is easy for any
cotton farmer to trade his cotton seed
fer meal and hulls, and thus provide
himself with valua bic feed stuffs for
dairy or beef cattle, and incidentally
procure the very best fertilizer that is
known-the manure from cattle main
toined on nitrogenous feeds.
Aside from all considerations of ma
nurial value, the relative feed value Of
cotton seed meal and hulls is shown
below, in connection with relative value
cf other feed stuffs in the following ex
tract from>a table in the book Cotton
and Cotton Oil'' by D. A. Tompkins.
Relat tive Nutritjye