The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-03
Cottonseed as Feed.

INVESTIGATIONS nldue dt Tue MisSiss
ippi Agricultural Experiment Station
as to the relative values Of cottonseed,
cottonseed meal and corn are summar-
lied as follows by Director W. l.. Hut
Crimson in a bulletin issued for the
benefit Of farmers Of the State:
THE facts as demonstrated are Q)
pound Of cottonSeed has greater
value for feeding cattle than pound
of corn; (2) pound Of cottonseed meal
has feeding value about equal to TWO
pounds of corn; g, that at least eighty
five pnr cent. of the fertilizing 1ngre-
dients IN the feeds is eXcreted by the
animals fed, and may be recovered IN
the manure; a. that nearly half OF the
fertilizing ingredients excreted is found
in the urine: (5) that both cottonseed
and cottonseed meal may constitute
very important part Of the grain feed
of cattle without injury to their health;
6l that cottonsced and cottonseed
meal. when fed to dairy cows in proper
quantity and properly combined Win
other feed do not injure the quality or
either milk or butter.
with corn at forty cents per oushcl
(about the average price i'll this State)
q ton of cottonseed is worth $16.1O as
feed for either beef cattle or dairy cat
tie. At present prices for commercial
fertilizers nitrogen costs about twelve
cents per pound and phoSphoric acid
and potash each five cents per pound.
Allowing these prices for the same in
sredfents in manure we have $500 as
the fertilizing value Of the manure for
each ton of seed fed, making Tor
farmer a total value per ton Of $2o.I9.
Farmers sell their seed for 81 to Sc per
ton. Some of them sell for 81 per ton.
In a similar way We ind the feed
ING value OF ton OF cottonseed meal
to be S2S.56 and the manure to be
worth $19.13 for every ton Of meal con-
sumed. making q total value of S4I.6S
that farmer might derive per ton
by first feeding the meal to cattle ana
applying the manure to his land.
mississippi produced in 1S91-9S
1927. 900 bales OF cotton. This gave
100000 tons seeds. which had a COM
bincd feeding and manurial value OF
500, 600 Had the entire crop been
sold for So per ton it would nave
brought only S4,000,000.
The cotton crcp for the South the
same year was 100000 bales and
5.GOO,pOa tons Of seed having COM
bined feeding and fertilizing value Of
S1444240oa At S. per ton the seed
would have brought S2S,O00,OoO. The
farmers Of Mississippi lost $l6,632,OOo
on this one crop, and the farmers or
the entire cotton belt lost S116,424'ood
The present disposition Of the cot
tonseed crop secures to the farmer a
very small part of its real value, and
must Of necessity give place to prac-
tice that will secure to the farmer the
maximum benefit which he may derive
from this product.
1.-The time will come when the South
ern farmer will realize that the fer
tilizfns value in the cottonseed must
stay on the farm to maintain its ferhl-
ity and productiveness.
HE viii not always regard the mat
ter~ef hauling as of no consequence
as something which he can do withort
cost. If the best disposition of cotton
seed is finally demonstrated to be to
extract the Oil for human food and for
other commercial purposes, and let the
meal and hulls go back to the farms
to serve both as feed and fertilizer,
then, most likely, there will be small
oil mill at each ginnnry and oil and lint
will be the only prouucts Of the cotton
crop sent to market.
''The Southern farmer, however,
need not walt for oil mills. He may
get the full value Of his cottonseed by
a judicicds system of feeding, accom-
panied oy the most careful saving and
proper use of the manure"