The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-07-31
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR
CATTLE.
Pointer, That Are Of Vital Interest to the
Uo.to- date Farmer. Money in DairyinS.

Up.tO-dat1 fafN9. HOhSy ~ Dd"J"y
What has cotton TO do with dairy
Ing? Cotton seed products nave
come the most popular food stun Tor
catela, because u the low price anu
the most excellent results Ihey are
the natural cattle feed for the cottoi
region. on account OF saving In lre'eh'
and the easy and eonyenienS access @
Strange to say. the value d these pro-
ducts was NOT first discovered In theif
native home. Il remained for German
scientists to point out their gresR
value German agriculturists are az
ways standing ready 70 make use Oh
the discoveries Of science, and 80 tney
imported vast quantities OF cotton seeo
rseal from this country ana useo IL \"
cattle feed IN their dairies years BEFORE
os< own people woke up 70 the sfeaS
possibilities IN cotton seed meal aS a
feed stuff. But Il ie now very We'll
kpovn that cotton seed meal. m con-
pectioe with cotton seed huhs. make
che most valuable cattle foode that are
nyaF+lbSe especially that onereo oy
the Southern Cotton Oh company VI
the csrolinas and Georgia. at any OF
their mifis " at their headquarters az
Columbia, 8 c.. sevannah. Co.. AZ
lants, Ca. or RaleLgh, N. c.
There Ia one fact N connection with
that "a not generally given the prom
hence that It's importance demands
THIS IA the velus Of the manure.
Most exhaustive experiments nave
been us2a, both Ia this country and In
Europe. with a view 70 finding the
relation between the feed and the re-
sutesna excreuseR from cattle. a
nost important and far-reachins oon-
ciuston has been reached. and Is
- al ~
doubt. This is that practically all OF
ths nitrogen that te fed to cattle re-
appee<e IN the excSenent: about hall
IA the solfd aod half IN the liquid.
Nitpocea is the most expensive ingre-
d4t.nt IN al food stuffs. and 10 all fer
t-.eexe Hence this dtscovery ie
most important ono. leading 70 the
sstoandfns fact that the present COM
mercial value OF cotton seed meal as q
feed stuff ie but half It's real value.
when properly understood. II means
That TIE .fuH value OF the nitrogen in
the meal may be utilized in feeding.
and thea. Il sufficient cere b. taken to
ssvs SOLID and liquid manure the whole
N TIE nitrogen may be collected and
ssed aSstp as q manure. There ls
further rella In this. In that the form
OF the nitrogen In thfs manure. taken
With the other elements. chemical ana
mechanical. makes the manure q pet
.e< Fertilizer than the original meal
The general statement that pract-
csliy an q the nitrogen fed to cattle
reenoeers IN the axcrenfent might lead
10 the conclusion (Which would De
easily sei9-contrad<ctory) that nitrogen
feeds are Of no value to cattle. and that
Il Ia IN no way assimiiated or made U.s.
OF BY thu animal economy. Nothing is
more Grrly esta blished than that nitro
eenous feeds are mcst important. IN
producing both beef and butter: but X
is not yet well understood how the an
'imal uses the nitrogen and then ex-
cretes II. Il may be that the nitrogen
from the air is utilized. or Il may be
that through some Transformation In
the system the nitrogen does It's "ork.
and ~ then rejected.
There is q perfect analogy In the use
Of nitrogen n making sulphurfc acid.
II s necessary to supply certain
amount OF nitrogen to make the process
operative, and yet all oS this nitrogen is
either recovered or loet, none OF II
actually being retained in the sulphuric
aCid.
7hs cotton plant requires large
amount Of nitrogen. and th&s may be
supplied with the manure from dairy
csttle. which themselves feed on cotton
large sUounts OF valuable milk cream
and butter. Then datrying on the cot.
ton farm becomes q logical occupation.
There sfe now many cotton seed OH
mills OF the Southern Cotton OH Co. so
widely scattered that Il Ia easy for any
cotton faefpev to trade bis cotton seed
Eor meal ana hula and thus provide
himself with valuable feed stuffs for
dairy or beef cattle. and incidentally
pYocops the very best fertilizer that Is
kn0~n-tne manure from cattle main
e,4Jsed on heterogeneous feeds.
Aside from, all considers tioos OF ma
u,ipial vsitle the rsia tive feed value OF
.>oteoa seed rI,eal and hutfs Is shown
below. IN connection with reletive Vatte
Of other feed stsfrs In the following ex-
traIt from table 70 the book Cotton
and Cotton Or by u. A. TOmpkins.
Relative Nutrftive