Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-06
CHARLES A. WHITTLE.
Georgia State College of Agricultur re.

South, but few, comparatively speak
ing.
Nothing stands in the way of feed
ing cotton seed meal in the South.
Nothing in the climate forbids it. The
food requirements of live stock do
not forbid it. In fact, whenever cot
ton seed meal has been properly fed
in the South it has always been with
success.
Helps to Make Stock Profitable.
The unbeliever might query:
What is the use of feeding cotton
seed meal in the South if cattle can
not be raised in competition with the
West?"
Cattle can be raised in the South
in competition with the West, but,
of course, cotton seed meal alone will
not account for it. Without the silo,
without making use of the long graz
ing season, without using the double
cropping possibilities of a long grow
ing season, and without making the
best use of cheap cotton seed meal,
there is no use to try to compete with
the West in beef production. BY max
ing use of the advantages offered,
however, nothing whatever can put
the South in second place.
In dairying, where the profits are
larger than in the growing of beef,
in the South than elsewhere.
The live stock to which to feed
cotton seed meal and the willingness
Of the farmer to feed cotton seed
meal are, of course two very i'm
portant essentials. One can not raise
cotton alone and make a success of
growing live stock on the side by buy
ing the feed supplies. The Southern
farmer must raise corn, wheat, oats,
peas, clover cotton, fill a silo and
have Bermuda pasture, if he is GO
ing to grow live stock successfully.
Indeed agricultural progress in the
South awaits diversified farming.
Cattle can not be raised without
growing the feed crops. The feed
crops can not be used to best ad-
vantage without cattle on the place.
Permanent upbuilding of the fertility
of soil can not be accomplished with
out cattle, diversity of crops and crop
rotation. That is the circuit which
agricultural prosperity travels Thus
it will be seen that cotton seed meal
has an important role to play in the
progress Of Southern farming.
How 1t Affords Cheap Food Supply.
In feeding cattle four things are of
importance to the farmer: Dry mat
ter, digestible protein, digestible car
bohydrates and digestible fat Dry
matter is cheap enough and easy
enough to get in the form Of a va
riety of ''roughness." Protein is diff
ferent. 1t is the most expensive but
very essential, going chiefly to build
ing up nerves and tissues. In this
element cotton seed meal stands far
ahead of other feeds ordinarily used
in this country. Carbohydrates build
the fires, as it We're, under the boiler
in heating up the animal and sup
plying it with energy They are
abundant in most forms of feed
raised on the farm. Being easy to get
and abundant, carbohydrates are,
therefore, comparatively inexpensive.
Fat is another one of the expensive
food elements and also very import
ant for building body fat 1t can also
take the place Of carbohydrates as a
source of energy and heat Here
again cotton seed meal comes to the
fore 1t excels in fat contents.
In three particulars cotton seed meal
excels-dry matter, protein and fats,
when compared to corn, corn bran,
wheat bran, wheat middlings, rice
bran and oats. The rank of cotton
seed meal with some of the leading
concentrates is given in the follow
ing table: