The Tupelo journal., 1908-07-10
Cotton Seed Meal for Hogs.
By 10 w. ALLISON.
Qn Cotton Seed Oil Magazine

one third costonseed meal anc
two-thirds corn chops, whole
corn, wheat bran, or shorts; mix
with water to a thin mush in two
vessels ian old barrel sawed in
two is good) and leave to sour OF
ferment, which will take from
IL to 48 hours according to the
weather and other conditions;
then feed from these alternately
using the contents of one, while
that of the other is left to sour.
A good growing ration may be
based on one pound of dry mix
ture per hundred pounds of live
, weight. For quick fattening
this may be doubled, quadrupled
or even more largely increased.
Indeed the Texas Experiment
Station fed as much as seven
and a half pounds per day to
hundred and fifty pound hogs,
though this is extreme and un-
economical, if not positively dan
gerous.
When ready to feed add fresh
water to the feeding ration suf-
ficient to bring to thin slop,
about the consistency of sweet
milk, and give the hogs all they
will clean up.
All hogs eat it greedily and all
hogs thrive on it from the lordly
head of the herd to the tiniest.
But the piggy" or sucking
shows it is especially valuable,
giving to the pigs both before
and after narrowing a growth
and vigor attainable with no
other feed on earth.
In an experience of over rs
years, | have never seen a hog
refuse to eat it. or injured by it.
Indeed tits only the best and
cheapest food on earth. but it an
efficient prophylactic and hogs
fed on it seem entirelp immune
to any of the common i'll that
hogs are heir to.
AS to the feeding value of cot
ton seed meal compared with
corn, chemical analysis, con-
firmed by years of practical tests,
answer this. A hundred pounds
of corn contained from six to ten
pounds of protein, four to six
pounds of fat and about sixty
five to to seventy pounds of cor
bohy drates.
The agricultural experiment
station and the agricultural text
books all teach us these things:
First-To feed a balanced ra-
ton.
Secondhand a balanced ration
is one in which the three iH.qor-
tant feed elements, Protein, Fat
and Carbohydrates. are combined
in such proportions as to meet tn
needs of the body in the best
way at the lowest cost.
Third-That protein tn the
mort valuable food constituent,
supplying growte muscle, bone
and lean meat, and by it the
value of all feed is measured.
Fourth-That fat in feeds sup
heat and energy and builds up
fat in the body, but makes no
muscle or flesh.
Fifth That unber the general
term cabohpdrats are classed the
starch and sugars present in all
feeds, forming the cheapest and
most abundant feeding material,
md like fat giving heat and en-
ergy but making no flesh, bone
or muscle.
SiXth-That a balanced ration
for hogs should contain about
one pound of protein to every 5
pounds of fat and carbohydrates.
Now keeping these truisms in
mind it is easy to see from the
figures already given, that corn
is seriously deficient in portein,
is not properly balanced and is
an expensive and insufficient ra-
ton when FED alone; that cotton
seed meal in portein and fat COM
bined is about five times, and in
protein alone is about six times
as valuable as corn and while
too rich in protein to be fed by
| itself. when combined with corn