The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-18
FEED STOCK COTTON SEED

With the Article Published in Yes
terday's Observer to the Effect That
the Cotton States Should Devote
Themselves Exclusively to the Grow
ing of Cotton and Points Out That
Cattle May Be Supported From the
Cotton Seed PrOducts-COtton Seed
"a Cereal Containing Highly Nutritf-
ouS Observation-Disclosures Good Food
When Balanced After Dill Is Re
moved.
DR.. Knapp and a writer In The
Greenviile News have, 1 notice, joined
me in my highly heretical views on
the subject of all cotton" sale Mr..
T.. w. Thompson yesterday, referring
TO the article in yesterdays Observer.
Farm Journals and Farmers
Unions and all standard authorities
on the subject Of planting have at
least a theoretical idea that the
Southern farmer should raise less cot
ton and more provisions say
theoretical. because as a matter Of
fact, most cotton farmers in this
country keep right on raising cotton
in spite of this advice. I have had
occasion to call attention to this state
of affairs quite a Number of times in
recent articles [ AVE written on the
subject of cotton farming in general.
and intensive farming in particular.
I have maintained all along that
while it might be difficult to point out
the objections Of this apparently
sound theoretical advice, there must
be something wrong about it in prin-
Ciple-otherwise, it would not be so
generally d~isregarded.
According to all modern ideas Of
division of labor. it seems correct by
analogy to eason that the farmers
in the cotton belt might with great
advantage devote their best energies
10 the intensive production of cotton,
leaving the intensive and extensive
production OF other things to farmers
in other parts of the country, where
no cotton can be raised. but where
these other crops can be raised to as
good an advantage as cotto nmay be
raised i'll this country.
There are many sound arguments
which are practically unanswerable
for the raisinfg Of live stock on ali
farms. whether North or South. A
recent newspaper writer has coined
the happy phrase the plant, the ami
This c~rystalizes the thought that has
often been expressed in other Ian
guage by James J. Hill and Others,
that no agriculture can be successful
without stock raising. Cattle make
use Of green forage grown on the
farm and by natural processes return
the fertility of the land, thus by an
endless cycle allowing the land to
raise still more crops"
Cotton Seed a Cereal.
"Grantlng all the above, the ques-
ton arises, How shall we supper the
cattle if We raise no grain and forage
crops? 1t should not. of course. be
supposed that any farm could exist
without a certain amount of forage
crops; but the important point in this
whole discussion is hat on account Of
modern discoveries in the utilization
OF cotton seed products, it is perfect
ly easy to support as many cattle as
may be required en- any cotton farm.
without devoting any important part
of the acreage to the specific cause OF
grain raising.
The time has now come for ua to
look upon cotton seed as a cereal.
Nature has packed highly nutritious
elements into the little cotton seed,
but has not put them IN in the correct
proportion for cattle feeding. l is
the province Of the oil miller to ex-
tract the valuable oil and utilize it for
human consumption. then to recon-
pine the resultant meal and hulls In
such q way as to make a properly
balanced ration for stock. AS YOU
know, l have made a special study Of
this subject for some twenty years,
and at one time personally supervised
the feeding of $500 head of cattle.
hey were fed entirely on cotton seed
meal ana huilS. These cattle made
splendid beef steers and were sold for
fancy prices on the Chicago market.
"There is no reason why any cotton
farmer could not raise as many beef
ana DAIRY cattle as he wants. and
keep them in perfect condition by
eedlng a mixtur Of cotton seed meal
and hulIs.
FOR a great many vars, feeders
have recognized the worth of cotton
seed meal and hulls in a general way.
but the subject did not become so
Well standardized until we commenced
to make special %scientifis mixtures
Of cotton seed meal and bulls with
certain guaranteed chemical analyses.
For Example We manufacture at our
mill in Charlotte a mixed feed which
We all ROVeta.' This is the result Of
long experience in the chemical lab
oratory and i'll the actual feeding Of
cattle