Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1902-08-06
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR
CATTLE.
Pointers That Are of Vital interest to the
Up.to date Farmer. Money in DairyinS.

Up.to-date Farmer. Money IN DairyinS.
What has cotton to do with dairy
ing? Cotton seed products have pc
come the most popular food stun loi
cattle, because of the low price ahu
the most excellent results. They are
the natural cattle feed for the cotton
region, on account of saving III lrelSh'
and the easy and convenlent access
Strange to say the value OF these pro
ducts was not first discovered IN 'hst
native home. 1t remained for German
scientists to point out their great
value. German agriculturlstS are al
ways standing ready to make use Oh
the discoveries of science, and so -they
imported vast quantities of cotton seed
meal from this country and used II Tor
cattle feed in their dairies years before
our own people woke up to the great
possibilities in cotton seed meal as
feed stuff. But 1t is now very well
known that cotton seed meal, in con
nectiOn with cotton seed hulls, make
the most valuable cattle foods that are
available especially that offered by
the Southern Cotton Oil company of
the Carolinas and Georgia, at any OF
their mills or at their headquarters at
Columbia, S. c., Savannah, Ga, At
lanta, Ga. or Raleigh, n. G.
There is one fact in connection with
cattle 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.
been made, both in this country and in
Europe, with view to finding the
relation between the feed and the re-
Sulting eXcrement from cattle.
most important and far-reaching cen
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.
dient in all food Stuffs, and In oil 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 q
feed stuff Is but half its real value.
when properly understood 1t means
that the full value OF the nitrogen In
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 q manure. There Is
further value In this, In that the form
OF the nitrogen in this manure. taken
with the other elements, chemical and
mechanical, makes the manure a bet
ter fertilizer than the original meal.
The general statement that pracu-
cally all OF the nitrogen fed to cattle
reappears In the excrement might lead
TO the conclusion (Which would be
easily self lf-contrsdictory) that nitrogen
feeds are of no value to cattle. and that
II is in no way assimtiated or made use
OF by the animal economy. Nothing Is
more firmly established than that nitro
eenous feeds are most important, In
producing both beef and butter; but IL
Is not yet well understood how the an
imal uses the nitrogen and then e1-
cretes II. 1t may be that the nitrogen
from the air 10 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 suiphurtc actd
1t Is necessary to supply certain
amount Of nitrogen to make the process
operative. and yet ALI of this nitrogen is
either recovered or lost, none OF 1t
actually being retained in the sulphuric
acid.
The cotton plant requires q 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 oet
large amounts OF valuable milk cream
and butter. Then dairying on the cot
ton farm becomes a logical occupatiop-
There are now many cotton seed oal
mills OF the Southern Cotton OH Co. %
widely scattered that 1t Is easy for any
cotton farmer to trade his cotton seed
for meal and hulls. and thus provide
himself with valuable feed stuns for
dairy or beef cattle. and incidentally
procure the very best fertilizer that is
knpwn-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 hriis Is 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. Tornpkins.
Relative Nutrttive
Feed Value. Ratio.
Cotton Seed Meal. -$24-H TO Is
1inseed Meal. n1S to 1.e
Cow Peas. H.2o 10 2S
Alfalfa Hay. 1924 to *
oats. -. E.T2 70 SIS
Glover Hay I2-8 to Sc
Corn. n22 10 ai