Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-03-14

by the college fed thirty-three animals
Tor 100 days as suggested above. 1t was
necessary to ship these cattle to Rich
mond, a very long way, but the steers
even then sold at 1925 per hundred
weight, and the lot made a profit of
S2I5.S6 in spite of the fact that they
consumed seven tons of cotton seed meal
worn sISS.5O. and 53,23S pounds OF
silage. which at 50 per ton, was worth
SIO6.47. In addition, there was n by
product Of many pounds of yard manure
which experimenteTs have shown to be
worth IS per ton under the agricultural
conditions prevailing in Georgia The
above results il applied TO the number
OF cattle available in Georgia for feed
ing during the present fall and winter
would naturally enable our farmers to
make several hundred thousand dollars
out of this neglected industry.
FEEDING DAIRY COWS.
Milk and butter can be made as cheap
w in the south as anywhere else. An
IDEAL ration for this purpose is grass In
the summer with cotton seed meal. Two
10 four pounds of meal should be fed per
head per day depending on the amount
of grazing available. If the grass be-
comes short a great variety of sOiling
crops can be used in combination with
cotton seed meal. During the winter
there is no better ration for the cheap
manufacture of milk and butter than
cotton seed meal and silage. The cheap
ness with which this can be made has
already been pointed out. 1t is believed
that more than 500 silos have been built
in Georgia recently, which shows that
cur farmers are rapidly coming to full
appreciation of the value of cotton seed
meal and silage in the production of
cheap milk and butter.
The efficiency OF cotton seed meal
as a source of protein for dairy cows
was fully established in a test made
at the college where beet pulp and wheat
bran were fed in opposition to cotton
seed meal. Where beet pulp, cotton seed
meal and silage Were used, the cost OF
a gallon of milk was S.S6 cents; where
wheat bran, cotton seed meal and silag4
were fed, the cost of a gallon of milk
was 7.2S cents; and where cotton seed
meal and silage were fed, the cost of a
gallon of milk was 6.25 cents. Results
similar 10 these have been obtained in
many other southern states, and the
fact that great quantities of meal are
shipped to Denmark, enc of the greatest
dairy cehters in the world, for feeding
TO dairy cows, establishes its value be-
yond dispute. Ii is also extensively used
oy farmers in the north and east. AS an
example of it's efficiency, a dairy COW
owned by the college of agriculture
which made during one lactation period
12,SS9.9 Lounds of milk was fed chiefly
on grass, silage and cotton seed meal
The dairy herd maintained on the col
lege farm and fed on the foregoing ra-
tion has increased its gross returns
~
lection from $50 per individual per an
I,um TO SI93. Dairy cows are essentially
consumers and utilizers of large quaint.
ties Of protein. Milk is rich in this
particular element, and therefore it is
important that it be supplied at a rela
lively speaking, low cost and in desira
BILE quantity. That this can be done
more effectively through the use of cot
ton seed meal than by any other concen-
trate has been amply demonstrated agair
and again. OF course, the excessive use
of cotton seed meal is Objectionable and
is to be guarded against because it might
upset the digestive system. Naturally
care and skill must be exercised in the
feeding of as delicately constituted ar
animal as the dairy COW, but where wiss
management is instituted and proper
oversight kept of the herd, it provides
a satisfactory concentrate.
From : to pounds o. cotton SEED
meal should be fed with all the silagc
which the COW will consume. The guam
tity of cotton seed meal should be va
Tied according to the size, age and pro
ductivity of the COW. On the small farm
and in towns and cities throughout the
state and in suburban localities where
cows are kept and a silo is not availa
bic. any of the following rations will b'
found satisfactory for use in the win
ter: Three pounds of cotton seed meal
pounds OF corn and cob meal, l. pound:
or SWEET Tctatoes and 16 pounds of lesper
deza hay. Four pounds of cotton sec
meal, ] pound of rice bran, 20 pound:
of cotton seed huIls. Two pounds of cot