Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-07-30
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR
CATTLE.
Pointers That Are Of Vital Interest to the
Into. .date Farmer. Money in Dairying.

WQaL mas COIlol " w "As
ing? Cotton seed products have pc
come the most popular food stun for
cattle, because Of the low price ana
the most excellent results. They are
the natural cattle feed for the cotton
region, on account of saving IN freighl
and the easy and convenient access.
Strange to say, the value OF these pro-
ducts was not first discovered In tnelI
native home. It remained for German
scientists to point out tneir ore s 90.
value. German agriculturists are al
ways standing ready to make use OIL
the discoveries Of science, and so tney
imported vast quantities OF cotton SEED
meal from this country and used II 1or
cattle feed in their dairies years oerore
our own people woke up to the great
possibilities in cotton seed meal as a
feed stuff. But 1t is now very weii
known that cotton seed meal, In 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 their headquarters at
Columbia, s. c., Savannah, Ca, At
lanta, Ca, or Raleigh, N. c.
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 the value OF the manure.
Most exhaustive experiments nave
been made, both in this country and In
Europe, with a view to finding the
relation between the feed and the re-
sulting excrement from cattle. A
most Important and far-reaching con-
clusion has been reached, and 1t 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 half
in the solid and half in the liquid.
Nitrogen is the most expensive 1ngre-
dent in all food stuffs, and In all fer
tilizers. Hence this discovery Is
most important oneS 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. 1t 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 whole
of the nitrogen may be collected and
used again as a 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 a bet
ter fertilizer than the original meal.
The general statement that practi-
cally all Of the nitrogen fed 10 cattle
reappears in the excrement might lead
to the conclusion (Which would oe
easily self-contradictory) that nitrogen
feeds are Of no value to cattle, and that
II 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 1t
is not vet we'll understood how the an
imal uses the nitrogen and then ex-
cretes 1t. It may be that the nitrogen
from the air Is utilized, or 1t may be
that through some transformation IN
the system the nitrogen does It's 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 or 1t
actually being retained in the sulphuric
acid.
The cotton plant requires a 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 dairylng on the cot
ton farm becomes a logical occupation.
There are now many cotton seed oil
mills of the Southern Cotton OH 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
tained on heterogeneous feeds.
Aside from all considerations ef 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.
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