The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-08-13
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR
CATTLE.
Pointers That Are OF Vital Interest to the
Up.to date Farmer. Money in Dalrying.

What has cotton to do with dairy"
ing? Cotton seed products have be-
cattle. because OF the low price and
the most excellent results. They are
the natural cattle feed for the cotton
region, on account OF saving in freight
Strange to say. the value Of these pro-
ducts was not first discovered IN their
native home. It remained for German
scientists to point out their great
ways standing ready to make use OF
the discoveries OF science. and 90 they
imported vast quantities OF cotton seed
meal from this country and used 1t for
our own people woke up to the great
possibilities in cotton seed meal as q
feed stuff. But 1t is now very well
known that cotton seed meal. in COM
nectiOn with cotton seed hulls. make
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
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 its Importance demands.
Most exhaustive experiments have
been made. both In this country and IN
Europe. with a view to finding the
relation between the feed and the re-
most important and far-reaching con-
clusion has been reached. and 1t is
one which does not admit OF any
doubt. This is that practically all OF
appears in the excrement: about half
in the solid and half in the liquid.
Nitrogen is the most expensive ingre-
dent in all food stusfs. and in all fer
III e..
most important one. leading to the
astounding fact that the present COM
merqlal 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. IL sufficient care be taken to
save solid and liquid manure the whole
of the nitrogen may be collected and
used again as 81 manure. There is q
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 practi-
cally all Of the nitrogen fed to cattle
reappears in the excrement might lead
to the conclusion (Which would be
easily self-contra dictory) that nitrogen
feeds are OF no value to cattle, and that
1t Is in no way assimilated or made use
Of by the animal economy. Nothing is
more firmly established than that nitro
gepous feeds are most iril rtant, in
producing both beef and butter: but 1t
Is not yet we'll understood how the an
imal uses the nitrogen and then ex-
cretes 1t. 1t may be that the nitrogen
from the air Is utilized. or 1t may be
that through some Transformation in
the system the nitrogen does its work.
and is then rejected.
There Is perfect analogy in the use
OF nitrogen in making sulphuric acid.
amount Of nitrogen to make the process
operative. and yet all Of this nitrogen Ia
either recovered or lost none Of It
actually being retained in the sulphuric
acid.
The cotton plant requires a 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. 30
widely scattered that 1t Is easy for any
fer 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
tanned on heterogeneous feeds.
Aside from all considerations Of ma.
nurial value. the relative feed value Of
cotton seed meal ana hulls Is shown
Of other feed stufrs In the following AK
tract from q table in the book Cotton
and Cotton OIL" by D. A. Tompkins.
Relative Nutrttive
Cotton Seed Meal. .$2A16 to Ia
Linseed Meal. H.18 TO 1.6
Cow Peas. 21.20 to 28
Alfalfa Hay. -. 1924 to IS