Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-12

lood are generally due TO the lgnor-
ance of the persons feeding the same
ration rather than to the foodstuff it.
self, provided, of course. it has been
properly made and preserved.
Cotton seed meal is being fed at the
present time to dairy cattle in prac-
tically every state in the Union. 1t is
being fed to herds of COWS where the
choicest quality of milk is made and
shipped to selected customers in the
larger towns and cities 1t has been
used in dozens of tests at the various
experiment stations in the United
States and abroad and it has bean
shown to be not only wholesome and
desirable, but one of the cheapest
sources of protein available to the
dairymen. There are few concentrat-
es which blend more satisfactorily
with such foodstuffs as bran, corn,
shorts, oats and other cereals. Corn,
as is we'll known, is low in protein
and high in carbohydrates, and when
combined with cotton seed meal it
| furnishes an ideal ration for the dairy
COW. If cotton seed meal be fed with
forms of roughness relatively low in
protein the ration will be materially
improved as many demonstrations
have shown. 1t is an ideal food .
use in combination with corn sileage
and may be fed to cattle on grass
with very excellent results. If used
| in reasonable amounts it may be fed
for indefinite periods of time AMI
the animals keep in thoroughly Wig
orous and healthy condition. The
great trouble with the average feeder
T is his lack of acquaintance with the
concentrated nature of this material.
and his disposition to feed it there
fore as freely as he would corn or
some other foodstuff not so rich in
digestible nutrients. If the farmer
and dairyman will bear in mind that
one pound of cotton seed meal con
tains about four times as much diges-
tible protein as pound of corn, he
will have no trouble from feeding this
material. In other words, to >
pounds of cotton seed meal containing
the protein equivalent of from 16 to
20 pounds of corn meal. 1t is seldom
that this much corn meal would be
fed as a dairy ration to an animal
weighing / 900 pounds, and the aver
age feeder who is acquainted with
cotton seed meal can hardly bring
himself to realize that or pounds
is about the right amount to feed per
day to 1000 pound COW when not
giving over two gallons of milk
The fact that he statement referred
to in the early part of this statement
is baseless is shown by the record Of
our experts of cotton seed meal which
in 1911 unfortunately amounted to
about $4,000 tons. This meal did not
bring the producers in the South more
than about $500 a ton, yet it is
known to contain fertilizing constitu-
eLts of an equal valu This meal
went chiefly to Denmark, Germany
and Great Britain and was used large
ly in the nutrition of dairy COWS,
though of course considerable guam
titles were fed to beef cattle as well.
For years the policy of these nations
has been to secure concentrated food
materials of high nutritive quality and
rich in plant food constituents from
all the outlaying sections of the world
and food on their farms. AS a result
they have built up soils which were
extremely poor half century ago.
but are now rated as among the most
productive and desirable for agricul-
tural purposes in the world. Denmark
has risen to prominence as a dairy
nation and the products of hel herds
top the market in the great capitals Of
Europe. 1t may be surprising to some
to know that the basis of the dairy ra-