The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-08
OIL MILLS AND CREAMERIES.
An Address Issued to the Farmers OF the
County-Meeting Called For March
10Th.

ton OF all farmers to the advantage
" erecting the necessary machinery
TO manufacture their OWN cotton
seed. We think this machinery
should consist OF small oil mills
combined with small butter and
cheese factories and run upon the
associated plan.
The oil mills and Si;1ncrie> can
gin the cotton, manufacture what
fertilizers the stockholders wish
and separate the cotton seed into
lin1crs. oil. hullS. and pure meal.
The lintcrS and oil should tl1en he
ready Tor market: but not So with
the hullS ard the pure meal. Tor
they contain two valllcS. VIZ. feed
and fertilizer.
Chemists say these two values
are separate and distinct. The
first value contains the carbon hy-
tlrateS. protein and fats; while the
fertilizer value contains phosphate.
acid. potash. and ammonia. which
makes six separate ingredients. and
only making a small clash between
the protein and ammonia, that
whatever loss the fertilizer value
may sustain BY reason of the small
amount of ammonia the COW re-
tains. is more than repaid BY the
better condition in which the re-
naming fertilizer Ingredients are
placed.
Clemson college, in order to test
the practical effect OF this theory,
made the following experiment: \
cow was confined in a stall and was
fed one hundred and fifty pounds
OF pure cotton seed meal and four
hundred and seventy-four pounds
of cotton seed hulls. She was fed
nothing else. Her drinking was
conveyed to the stall. Pine saw
dust was used for bedding because
it was known to contain no 1ertl-
lizer value.
The fertilizer value OF said pure
meal and hulls was determined by
ANALYSIS before being fed. The
fertilizer value OF the COW manure
was decided BY analysis after the
feed was consumed which showed
that the pure meal and hulls had
lost none of its fertilizer value by
having been led to mich COW.
This manure was then put upon
one acre OF ground. Then $50
pounds Of pure cotton seed meal.
474 pounds of hulls. of same analy-
sis as above meal and hrlls. was put
upon another acre of ground. ad-
Joining the first acre. 1t was found
bv a very accurate and elaborate
experiment that the acre nanured
with the COW manure made .consld-
erablv more cotton than the acre
nlanured with pure meal and hullS.
We all know that pure cotton
seed meal is worth $500 per ton
for cow feed, because we Will buy
it at that price in preference to any
thing else for COW feed. and that
one cow will repay us in milk and
butter for $500 OF meal. We al
so know BY the same reasoning that
it is worth S25.oo per ton as fer
tilizer. 1t is clear that when we use
a ton of meal for feed and do not
pay any attention to our cow ma
n:,re we lose it's fertilizer value.
Then. again. when we use 1t as
fertilizer we lose its iced value.
If we had all the COW manure
we could haul from one cow shed
to one field free of all cost we would
save our guano bills, and at the
same time make both good land and
profitable crops. The only way to
get such conditions is to feed Your
meal and hullS to something that
will eat them and at the same
time make sufficient return to pay
for meal and hulls. A good Cow
should give two gallons OF milk per
dav at IL cents per gallon. - cents
per day. 1t is impossible to make
beef take on Il cents worth OF
flesh per day.
The only way 70 find a market
Tor milk. in unlimited quantities. is