Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-01-23
,COTTONSEED MEAL AS A
HORSE AND MULE FEED.

deficiency in Southern husbandry
his finger would point to the utter
,dearth Of good horse feed. 1t is
now generally admitted that the re-
suits of the war, and undoubtedly
its duration would have been alto
gether different had there been a /
sufficient quantity of horse feed for
the Southern cavalry. Though this
deficiency of good fed for mans
best friend" may not be presented
in as acute a form today as it was
in those of the early sixties, still
it is quite as real AS the South
is undoubtedly the land of cotton,
so on the other hand it is equally
certain that it is not the land OF
grain and long forage. Let the
newspaper editor put whip and
spur to the farmer all he will, the
fact remains that it is a tough prop
osition to make barely enough grain
and hay to do, and out Of the
question to make any for market.
With these conditions surrounding
us, how irresistible should be the
alluring invitation which Cotton
seed Meal holds out to the feeder
Of live stock in the South.
In a state Of nature the horse
crops the lucious grass that grows
on the bank of the water course.
In state Of domesticity the horse
is fed on dust dry hay and grain
and no clear running brook passes
his manger, and he drinks only out
of the hot, or freezing polluted
horse trough, when the owner re-
members to turn him out Of the
stall. Not only do our work stock
wear out with shocking rapidity,
under such treatment but the mort
atty among them, all on account
of intestinal trouble, is appalling.
You must keep what horse eats
moving forward, or rather, back
ward, if you don't he will die. So
I have come to believe that aside
from the wonderful nutritive value
eof Cottonseed Meal, its mechanical
value in aiding the peristaltic
movement in the horse is worth
its actual cost many, many times
over. / am not chemist, but you
have only to ask one who is and
he will tell you how tremendously
valuable and NUTRITIOUS cottonseed
meal is as a horse feed. All that
corn, oats, hay and fodder lack as
feeds, is supplied by cottonseed
meal. In combination with them it
makes perfection feed. admit
that every horse and mule will not
show a, fondness for dottonseedl
meal to begin with but evry horse
and mule that ever lived will eat
it, will come to like it, and will
thrive on it.
/ believe any animal of the horse
kind from shaved tail mule to
Lou Dillon, will be benefited and
improved by the addition of Cot
tonseed Meal to- its daily ration.
AS for its not being a natural
feed for the horse, neither is corn
or oats. A horse is grass eater
and he never saw grain until he
met up with man on the plains
of Damascus 1000 years ago and
he got his first taste Of barley.
A horse can worry along on a
general bill of fare. In Afghanis-
tan he is fed on balls of mutton fat I;
while in India he eats dried fish.
1t is not hurtful admission in
this discussion to acknowledge that
cottonseed meal cannot be fed in
large quantities. This only goes
to show its high quality as a. feed.
A man does not at one sitting eat
a pat of butter, or drinka jug Of
molasses, or gulp bowl OF gravy.
He does not pour out vinegar by
the cruet full, or eat salt and pep
per by the spoonful. These are
the tidbits, or as the French say,
c'est la sauce qui fat manager
la poisson. SO cottonseed meal
makes the dry rations Of the domes-
tic horse go down, and not only
down, but what is more important,
90 through If farm animals in the
South could feed daily on a ration
a minimum of one pound of con-
centrates being cottonseed meal,
this land would be richer and a
happier one. While this would
he n actuaI anount only about ten