The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-10-02
(By Prof. John Michels. West Ra-
leigh, N. C.)

(By Prof. John Michels. West Ra-
leigh, N. c.
This State loses annually about
four and half millions of dollars for
want OF enough cattle to consume the
cottonseed meal that is now thrown
directly upon the land as a fertilizer.
Feeders should understand that in
general about Is per cent of all the
fertilizing ingredients in feeds are re-
covered In the manure. But in spite
of the fact that about IS per cent of
the fertilizing ingredients OF the feed
go to make milk. 1t has been shown
by actual tests that ton of cotton
seed meal will make the same amount
OF cotton whether put upon the land
In the raw form or after it has becn
fed to cattle and the manure supplied
to the land. The passage of the cot
tonseed meal through cattle renders
the fertilizing ingredients more
available and the manure also i'm
proves the mechanical condition of
! the soil.
There is no greater waste In asri.
culture. 1 believe. than the destruc-
ton OF the feeding value of cotton
seed meal at $500 per ton. The best
proof of this we have in the fact that
Tor many years Denmark and Ger
many have been importing large
quantities Of cOttonseed meal from
the Southern States for the purpos.
or butter production. and while this
meal mas cost the foreign farmer
fSo.oO or more per ton, he and his
lands have become greatly enriched
from butter produced on imported
cottonseed meal
southern Products Making European
Soils Rich.
Denmark imports annually eight
hundred million pounds of oil cake
which is unground cottonseed mea,
and linseed meal after the oil has
been pressed from it. Germany i'm
ports over one billion pounds of this
meal annually. Both of these coun-
tries have been importing this meal
primarily for t.e production of but
'er; but incidentally. by virtue Of the
iact that the feeding mas not lessened
its fertilizing value. the lands in these
two countries have become enormous
~ rich. selling in many instances at
from $1,000 to $4,000 an acre.
"A matter which is beginning to ap-
peal strongly to the farmers Is the
growing of leguminous crops. But
the reason no more Of these crops are
grown at the present time, l think, is
Que to the lack of live stock to which
TO iced these crops. Leguminous
crops as we'll as other crops are hand
led in the most economical manner
by feeding them to stock.
Another matter Of Importance to
remember in connection with fe.tinc
stock is that there is nothing that has
such beneficial effect upon the soil
rs we'll made manure. This is not
'Aly rich IN available plant food but
is also rich in humus in which most
ot our soils are sadly deficient: and
"hat Is of no little Importance, man.
cre is rich i'll bacterial life which is as
| t,n
Cottonseed Meal and Silage Economi-
cal Feeds
10 reed dairy cattle ecOnomically
Wo must feed only stock Of the dairy
breeds 1t does not matter so much
whether this stock be pure bred or
high grade, but it must be stock
"''o'c n"tt"1' IU.!aCs5 X to make
milk beefy COW. which nature in
| tended FOR beef purposes, cannot be
made high milk producer under any
system of feeding. Having selected
the proper cattle. the next important
| matter is to select the Droper feeds
Cottonseed meal is the cheapest dairy
iced we have. and hulls are the most
| expensive. Therefore see to It that no
hulls are fed and that the cows re-
ceive liberal allowance of cototn-
| seed meal.
| There is perhaps no feed with
which cottonseed meal can be fed so
successfully as with corn silage, and
the latter is also the cheapest rough