The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-30
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR
CATTLE.
Pointers That Are of Vital Interest to the
Uo.to.date Farmer. Money in DairylnS.

What has cotton to do with dalry-
ing? Cotton seed products nave pc
come the most popular food stun lo5
cattle, because Of the low prlce anu
the most excellent results. Iney are
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 tnelr
native home. It remained for German
scientists to point out their great
value. German agriculturlsts are al
ways standing ready to make use Oh
the discoveries Of science, and so they
imported vast quantities OF cotton seeo
meal from this country and used 1t Tor
cattle feed in their dairies years before
our own people woke up to the great
possibilities in cotton seed meal as a
feed stuff. But it is now very well
known that cotton seed meal, IN con-
nection with cotton seed hulls, make
the most valuable cattle foods that are
available, especially that offered Sy
the Southern Cotton Oil company OF
the Carolinas and Georgia, at any OF
their mills or at their headquarters at
Columbia, S. c., Savannah, Ca, At
lanta, Ga, or Raleigh, N. c.
There is one fact in connection Win
cattle feeding on cotton seed products
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 and in
Europe, with view to hndlnS the
relation between the feed and the re-
sultine excrement from cattle.
most important and far-reaching con-
clusion has been reached, and it is
one which does not admit of any
doubt. This is that practically all OF
the nitrogen that is fed to cattle re.
appears in the excrement: about nall
in the solid and half in the liquid.
Nitrogen is the most expensive ingre-
dent in all food stuffs, and in all fer
tilizers. Hence this, discovery is a
most important one,S leading to the
astounding fact that the present COM
mercial value of cotton seed meal as
feed stuff is but half its real value,
when properly understood. It means
that the full value of the nitrogen in
the meal may be utilized in feeding,
and then, if sufficient care be taken to
save solid and liquid manure the whole
Of the nitrogen may be collected ana
used again as a manure. There is
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 pet
ter fertilizer than the original meal
The general statement that practl-
cally all Of the nitrogen fed to cattle
reappears in the eXcrement might lead
to the conclusion (Which would be
easily self-contradictorV that nitrogen
feeds are of no value to cattle, ana tnat
it is in no way asSimilated or mace use
of by the animal economy. Nothing is
more firmly established than that nitro
renous feeds are most important, in
producing both beef and butter; but it
is not vet we'll understood how the an
ir1al uses the nitrogen and then e1-
cretes it. It may be that the nitrogen
from the air is utilized, or 1t may pc
that through some transformation IN
the system the nitrogen does its Work,
and is then rejected.
There is a perfect analogy in the use
of nitrogen in making Sulphuric acid.
It 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 it
actually being retained in the sulphuric
acid.
The cotton plant requires 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 o. tie 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
fcr 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 all considerations Of ma
nurial value, the relative feed value Of
cotton seed meal and hulls is shown
below, in connection with relative value
cf other feed stufs in the following ex-
tract from table in thc Gook Cotton
and Cotton OIL by D. A. Tompkins.