The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-07-30
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR
CATTLE.
Pointers That Are Of Vital Interest to the
up.fo.dase Farmer. Money in Dairyins.

What has cotton to do with GARY
ing? Cotton seed products nave pe-
come the most popular 1000 Sun .oa
cattle, because Of the low pIice dno
the most excellent results. iney az
the natural cattle feed for the COTTON
region on account of saving in freight
and the easy and convenient access.
Strange to say, the value Of these pro-
ducts was not first discovered IN lheir
native home. Tt remained Tor German
scientists to point out their great
value. German agriculturiSts are al.
ways standing ready to make use Oh
the discoveries Of science, ana so tley
imported vast quantities Oh COTTON seeu
meal from this country ana useo II ~,
cattle feed in their dairles years oelore
our own people woke up to the great
possibilities in cotton seed meal as q
feed stuff. But it is now very Wen
known that cotton seed meal, IN con-
nectien with cotton seed hulls, make
the most valuable cattle foods that are
ayailable. especially that offered by
the Southern Cotton Oil company OIL
the Carolinas and Georgia, at any OIL
their mills or at their headquarters at
Columbia, S. c., Savannah, Ga, At
lanta, Ga, or Raleigh, n. c.
There is one fact in connectlon VIII
cattle feeding ON cotton seed prooucts
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 ana IN
Europe, with view to hnolng the
relation between the feed and the re-
sulting excrement from catlie-
most important and far-reaching con-
clusion has been reached, ana II
one which does not admit OF any
doubt This is that practically all OF
the nitrogen that is fed to cattle re-
anpears in the excrement: about half
in the solid and half in the liquid
Nitrogen is the most expensive lngre-
dent in all food stuffs, and in all fer
tilizers. Hence this discovery is
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 nroperly understood. It means
that the full value of the nitrogen IN
the meal may be utilized IN feedlng,
and then, if sufficient care be taken to
save solid and liquid manure the wnole
of the nitrogen may be collected ana
used again as a manure. Ihere IS
fIlrtf1er value in this, in that the form
of the nitrogen in this manure, taken
with the other elements, chemleat anu
mechanical, makes the manure pet
ter fertlllZer lIldH lliS VI ASAAisA
The general statement that practl-
callv all Of the nitrogen fed to cattle
res ooears in the eXcrement might Iead
10 the conclusion (Which would be
easily self f-contrad dictory) that nitrogen
feeds are Of no value to cattle, ana that
If 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
producing both beef and butter; but II
is not yet we'll understood how the an
inaal uses the nitrogen and then eA-
cretes it. It may be that the nitrogen
from the air is utilized. or 1t may pe
that through some Transformation IN
the system the nitrogen does lls "olh'
and is then rejected.
There is perfect analogy ln>tn use
of nitrogen in making sulphurlc acld.
1t is necessary to supply 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 sulphur1c
acid.
The cotton. plant requires large
amount Of nitrogen. and TINS may oe
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 logical occupation:
There are now many cotton seed OIL
mills of the Southern Cotton Oil Co. SO
widely scattered that it 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
tanned on nitrogenous feeds.
Aside from ali considerations of ma
nurial value, the relative feed value OF
cotton seed meal and hulls 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. Tompkins.
Relative Nutritive
Feed Value. Ratio.
Cotton Seed Meal. .s24.l6 to IL
Linseed Meal. Ills to l.S
Cow Peas. 21.20 to 2.S
Alfalfa Hay. 1924 to 4.3
Oats 1772 to So
clover Hay. 1884 to 6.5
Corn. 2272 to go
Timothy Hay. Az to l5.I
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