The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-07-30
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Pointers That Arc of Vital Interest to the
Up.tO date Farmer. Money in DairYina.

What has cotton TO do with dairy
ing? Cotton seed products have be-
come the most popular food stun for
cattle because OF the low price and
the most excellent results. They are
tho natural cattle feed for tho cotton
region, on account or saving in freight
ana the easy and convenient access.
Strange to say, the value of these pro-
ducts was not first discovered in their
native home. 1t remained Tor German
scientists TO point out their great
value. German ugriCulturists are al
ways standing ready to make use OF
the discoveries OF science. and SO they
imported vast quantities OF cotton seed
meal from this country and used it for
cattle feed I'm their dairicS years before
our own people woke up to the great
possibilities i'm cotton seed meal as u
feed stun. But it is now very well
known that cotton seed meal, i'll con-
nection with cotton seed hulls, make
the most valuable cattle foods that are
available, especially that offered by
the Southern Cotton Oil company OF
the Carolinas and Georgia, at any OF
their mills or at .hcir headquarters at
columbia, S. c., Savannah, Ga, At
lanta, Ga, or Raleigh, N. q.
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.
This is tho value of the manure.
Most exhaustive experiments have
been made. both in this country and in.
relation between the feed and the re-
sulting eNcrement from cattle. ~
most important and far-rca ching con-
ciusion 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 eNCremcnt.. about half
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 n
most important one, leading to the
astounding fact that the present COM
merCial value of cotton seed meal asa
feed stuff is but half it's real value.
when properly understood. 1t means
that the full value of the nitrogen in
the meal may be utilized i'll feeding.
and then. If sufficient care be taken to
save solid and liquid manure the whole
OF the nitrogen may be collected and
used again as manure. There is a
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 Il bet
ter fertilizer than the original meal.
The general statement that practi-
caliy all of the nitrogen fed to cattle
reappears in the eXcrement might lead
to the conclusion (Which would be
easily self-contradictory) 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
genous feeds are most important, in
producing both beef and butter: but it
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 n perfect analogy in the use
OF nitrogen in making sulphuric acid.
1t is necessary to supply a. certain
amount nitrogen tn lyat b,N
operative, and yet all OF this nitrogen is
either recovered or lost, none OF it
actually being retained in the sulphurio
acid.
The cotton plant requires n large
amount of nitrogen, and this maybe
supplied with the manure from dairy,
cattle, which themselves feed on cottorf
products, and in the interim turn ont
large amounts of valuable milk cream
and butter Then dairyinS on the cot
ton farm becomes n 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
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
of other feed stuffS in The following eX-
tract from table In the book Cotton
and Cotton Oi' by ID. A. Tompkins.
Relative Nutritive
Cotton Seed Meal. .$2416 1 to IL
Linseed Meal. -. 21.1s to 16
Low feaS. ..ss. 21.20 ito 2S
SIlaila nay. 1924 hto Is
Sats. -. .S.s 1772 Ito 6g
Glover Hay q. a., 1884 1 to 66