Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-06
Cotton Seed Meal a Southern Asset
Poor1yAppreciatedby Southern Farmer
Affords Advantages in Livestock Rails
Soil Fertility.

It is time for an ode to the golden
meal similar to Timrod's to the cotton
boil. Lurking in the heart Of the
fuzzy little seed are wonders incredi-
BILE Presto! They troop upon the
stage at command of the genius Of
invention. Now, it is a dainty. elusive
and rare perfume; now it is a SHIN
mering liquid that parades as olive
oil and defies the epiCure TO say it IS
not; now it is enthroned in snowy
whiteness IN the frying pan; now 1t
Is the Jerseys golden butter-but this
isn't the ode. This is intended to be
very practical discussion. entitled
How the South turns its cotton seed
over to Others to go to the trouble of
extracting some several millions
therefrom, and how the Southern
farmer could tap the golden stream
without a worry"
The South gets about SIC, 900 900 for
its crop of cotton seed, but If 1t got
what the ultimate consumer pays for
it in its various manufactured forms
it would get a hundred million dol
lars. The South does not know all of
the tricks of cotton seed transforma-
ton The painstaking, delving, plod-
ding German has unearthed several
cotton seed gold mines which he has
securely staked Here the production
Of swineless lard and a few other
edibles more or less known to the
public has kept the cotton seed from
eXpatriating the greater part of its
resources.
Where the Farmer Comes In.
But to the farmer who grows the
cotton, that produces the seed, that
the mill grinds and the wonder work
era transform, it is up to him to get
his fertilizer from it and something
more.
A ton Of cotton seed contains SIS
pounds of nitrogen. p pounds Of
phosphOric acid, 31.6 pounds of pot
ash. Convert the seed into meal and
a ton of meal will have more than
twice as much nitrogen as a ton of
seed, nearly three times as much
phosphOric acid and considerably
more potash.
From 40 to 80 gallons Of oil can be
obtained from a ton Of cotton seed.
The oil is not needed for feed or fer
tiliZer. II is, therefore, a product that
should go on to the manufacturer to
be produced into various forms for
the benefit Of mankind. The farmer
should look to the residue of the seed
after the oil has been extracted as a
further source of revenue
A ton of cotton seed meal has plant
food constituents or fertilizer values
worth S2426 per ton. The question is,
How shall this meal be applied with
greatest benefit to the farmer? Shall
he apply IL direct as a fertilizer or
shall he feed it to live stock and ap-
ply the manure as fertilizer?
Feed it.
That cotton seed meal takes the
place of corn in an animals ration
and can be bought in the South and
be fed in the corn belt of the West
cheaper than corn has been demon
strated by many years of practice. II
cotton seed meal can be shipped to
the West and North and fed success
fully, what ought the South not gain
by feeding ii at home?
Butt is a shame TO say 1.-THE
Southern farmer is not feeding the
cotton seed meal, but he is selling il
to the Western farmer and is buying
from the Western farmer corn to feed
Penny wise and pound foolishl It is
not TO be explained upon any other
| basis than that the Southern farmer
| has not learned how to feed the meal,
generally speaking, Of course There
are farmers feeding meal in the