The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-01-24
URGES CATTLE RAISING,
Prof. Michcls to the Farmers of South
Carolina.

tcrcSt 10 South Carolina farmers
has been received by the News and
Courier:
Clemson College, Jan. Is, 1906.
To the Editor Of the News and
Courier: Thanks TO the high price of
cotton which has made the past year
enc of general prosperity for the farm
crs Of South Carolina, most of our
farmers are contentcd and have little
coucern for the future. Thcre arc
those, however, who are less indiffer-
cnt and who are already spcculatiDg
with more or less concern as to what
the coming year may bring forth in
thc>way of cotton aud cotton prices.
1t is feared with good reason that the
present high prices will result in
increased production and conse-
quent depression in prices the COM
ing year.
With the South as the source of
nearly the entire worlds supply Of
cotton, it seems logical that reason
able restriction in its culture would
give us almost positive assurance Of q
continuance of high prices for this
| staple product. A reduction in the
! acreage of cotton would necessarily
! call for the growing Of other crops in
conjunction with cotton, and thus
bring US to our inevitable goal, name.
ly, diversified farming, without which
the full agricultural possibilities Of
South Carolina and the South can
never be realized.
IDEAL WITH COTTON.
The kind of farming which fits in
most ideally with the growing OF cot.
ton, nay, which is absolutely neoes.
sary for best results, is the growing
of live stock. That live stock is our
greatest land improver is universally
conceded, and so long as our farmers
are obliged TO pay So, 600, 900 annually
for commercial fertilizer it must also
be conceded that something is needed
to improve the productiveness cf
our lands.
In conjunction with the growing
cotton live stock is of the highest
value if for no other reason than the
consumption Of the by-products of
this vast industry. Our farmers are
wasting millions of dollars annually
by Supplying their cotton and cotton
seed meal directly to the land instead
OF feeding it to live stock and apply
ing the manure to the land. A ton
OF cotton seed meal has q fertilizing
value Of $3.50 per ton. When fed to
live stock from sc sc &c sc Per cent. of
its fertilizing value is recovered in the
manure. When fed to dairy COW
and cnly butter 10 sold, all she feztil-
izing value Of the cotton seed meal is
sloovered, because butter contains no
feFsilisipg ingredients. -. = ; ~
COTTON SEED NEAL. l&#
II is evident that the value Of cot.
ton i ,ea meal 90 food for milk pro.
duetion 10 far better understood out.
sideo9 the cotton belt than within it..
For years Denmark and Germany have
imported large quantities of cur cotton
seed meal for milk production. Hun.
dseds Of tons are annually shipped to
various parts OF the United States
outside of the cotton producing region,
where this feed 10 regarded as one Of
Che most economical for milk pro.
duotion. ,..:.$ =: ..t.;s & ..is.3
What does this vast shipment Of
jsotton seed meal to daiiGf5Tent different parts Of
the world mean to our farmers? IT
means q shifting Of land values.
Every time she: German. or Danish
farmer feeds ton Of cotton seed
meal he adds practically s28 SO to the
value Of bic :3=sd, and jus. so often
tho Soushers fsEne. !eses ar eaniya!
lent amount 10 lnnd value ,5.. :.s: \
Hundreds OF carloads Of cotton seed
meal are fed TO- dairy cattle In places
where it cannot be purchased for less
than $50 to s3b per ton. Aud yet in
most Of these very places The meal is
purchased solely for the purpose OF;
milk prodpo.ion, and that, TOO, with
the intep.ioa2 Of making 81. money.
When fed TO the right olass Of cattle
cotton seed meal is worth at least s85
per ton as . milk producer, When;
ever, therefore, . ton Of mealia thrown.
upon the land, We add TO =at $3.50
worth Of fertility, but throw away ysits
noat. valuable part, sfeeding valun,
which we have >placeA at s35 per tom.
: The great agricultural possibilities
Of South Carolina will NOT Be realized
until tur farmers will return; sto the
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