The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-07-23
MEET THE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT.
How Farmers Can Make Money Out of
Cattle. The Best Food Right at Home.


What makes the price Of beef so
high? The price of anything is h!gh
either because the demand outstrlps
the supply, or because of some comb
nation Of dealers to artifcially raise
the price.
But whether price is naturally or
artifcially high, the remedy is the
same-greater production on an lnde-
pendent basis. Fortunately Tor con-
sumers of beef, and fortunately for the
/ southern farmer, there is no trust or
combination that can prevent most
lavish production Of beef, II only the
way is pointed out.
The breeding Of cattle on a farm, at
least in an unsystenatic manner, is
natural and almost spontaneous. But
In the absence of some systematic way
to follow up the subject, and select the
proper animals, and care for them
through the winter, and finally prepare
them to make fat, tender beef, there
is no proper beef production on the
farm. The farmer in the cotton region
is, surrounded with all the elements TO
make beef raising successful. The
climate is such that there is natural
forage most of the year. It requires
Just a little forethought TO provide for
the few winter months. The mate
rial-cheap materials always at
hand, cotton seed meal and cotton seed
hulls. The meal and hulls are ofered
lust as you want them by the Southern
Cotton Oil company, Of the Carollnas
and Georgia, and may be bought at
any of the local mills or from head
quarters at Columbia, S. c., Atlanta
Ga, Savannah, Ca, or Charlotte,
n. C.. Mixed in the proper proportion,
this makes the most nutritious and ac-
ceptable feed that is now available. 1t
is feed, which by varying the proper
tions will answer equally we'll for q
sustaining ration OF for fattenlng
ration It contains ali the ingredients
of nutrition, namely, fat, nitrogen and
carbohydrates. The cotton seed meal
contains fat and nitrogen and the hull
contains carbohydra tes.
A good sustaining ration is made up
Of "a pounds Of hullS and POUNDS OF
meal per day, and good fattenlng
ration is 20 pounds Of hulls and .
pounds Of meal. These proportions IN
both cases must be varied to suit in
| dividual cases, according to the con-
| 6ition and taste Of the animal. In
fattening cattle.i the ration should be-
gin with more hullS and less meal and
| the proportion Of meal gradually In
creased. A steer may be fattened ano
put in good condition for the market
| on 400 pounds of cotton seed meal ana
one ton of hulls. At average prices,
| the cost of this feed in the southern
! States would be about $500.
There is great profit in fattening
beef for the market, even at ordinary
prices, but at present the industry
should prove unusually attractive. The
following estimate of the profit that
can easily be made in this business is
| taken from book which has been
carefully prepared on this subject,
Cotton and Cotton OIL" by D. A.
| Tompkins. a
| AVERAGE PROFIT IN FATTENING
A STEER ON COTTON SEED
PRODUCTS.
| Cost Of steer, 100 lbs, at 2 1-2c. $50 w
| Cost Of hulls, 1000 lbs at $500
per ton.... w
Cost of meal, 400 lbs, at $4,000 -
per tom. :. Nv
Cost of attendance and sundries.. . W
Total. cost of fattened animal: ..SS9 90
Sale of fattened steer, 1,sOO lbs.
at 8 1-2c.. :. 70 ~
The price quoted for the fatteneo
steer, it will be noted, is very low, con-
| e;derinp present prices.