The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-02-15
cotton Seed Meal VS.. Corn.

Cotton Seed Meal VS.. Corn.
A correspondent OF the Columbiana
Gala. Chronicle offers the following
practical solution OF the stock food
question:
The scarcity and high price OF corn
makes the outlook gloomy for the
cotton producer.
Ii there should be big crop OF cot
ton gathered this year the chances
are good for a 6 cent price.
Can we make cotton for 6 cents per
pound on dollarcorn? Itisprobable
that most OF the corn used making
the cotton crop of 1902 will cost the
farmers 81 % per bushel. What
then? Grim ruin for all save those
who make and gather their crops
without hired help. Can the produc-
er cut expenses? Yes, by feeding cot
ton seed meal to horses and mules.
Begin by mixing one-half pound cot
ton seed meal with 8 to 10 pounds
chops per day; gradually increase
the cotton seed meal and reduce the
chops 2 pounds for every pound OF
cotton seed meal added, until they
balance, that is to say, 6 pounds of
chops and 3 or 81 pounds of cotton
seed meal. One pound of cotton seed
meal is equal to 2 of corn meal in
strength. Twelve pounds of corn
meal or chops is the average grain
ration for 1000 pound horse or
mule per day. Reckoning 6 pounds
of cotton seed meal equal to IL
pounds OF corn meal, you have the
basis for feeding separately or mixed.
Cotton seed meal will cost approx
mately on time $25 per ton, or TX
cents per pound. Corn will cost at
least on time $45; IA pounds per
day per horse will cost 31K cents for
100 days from February 1st'till oats
come in $50 so; cotton seed meal,
6 pounds per day, will cost X cents,
for 120 days, 50; if fed hall and half,
which is best, 100 days, $22 %.
Cotton seed meal may go higher than
my estimate, but let the corn buyer
remember that shipped corn will not
measure out as weighed up. So the
above comparativeestimate viii hold
good. Any one can readily see the
net saving from the use of cotton
meal as horse feed. Can any man
give an intelligent reason why cotton
seed meal is not as good for horse
as for COW or hog? Every dollar
paid for western corn goes off never
to return; every dollar paid for cot
ton seed meal is kept near home. We
only need to educate ourselves to feed
it.and our mules toIeat it; thatfs all
there is of it. Ninety per cent OF our
people are eating cotton seeds, bulls
and all, every day-in lard, milk, but
ter. beef, etc; then why not feed them
to the mules that make them?
Mark well this prediction: In a
very few years the standard price of
cotton will be from 4 to 5 cents per
pound; the meal, hulIs, lint and oil of
cotton seeds will be separated by a
chemical process at all the cotton
gins at nominal expense; the lint
and oil will net 2 cents per pound per
bale of lint; this will make four cent
cotton net six cents. The meal will
make the bacon and feed the mules
that produces the cotton; this saving
added to the price of cotton will be at
least SO per bale more. Then add
the increased area of cotton VS.. corn
planted for mule feed and you put on
another $40 per bale. In other
words, in the production, sale and
utilization of all the products of raw
cotton we will be $40 per bale better
paid in A cent cotton than we are
now with z cent cotton. This is CON-
ing, directors and doubters to the
contrary notwithstanding.
For fear Of making this letter too
lengthy, have not been as careful
and explicit as this subject deserves,
but hope l am sufficiently clear to