Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-02
sOUTH's GREAT STOCK FOOD.
Cotton Seed Meal Helps Solve the
Stock Food Problem.

Editor Keowee Courier: If there
was ever 4 time in the history of the
feeding Of work horses on the farm
when the farmer should be willing to
give cotton seed meal trial it Is
now. We can produce figures for
proof beyond any doubt that cotton
seed meal should be selling for more
than 500 per ton, based on the av-
erage cost Of fat and protein Of other
feeds.
The South Is the home of cotton
seed meal, and the average Southern
er has never realized the true value
Of his own product. The feeding Of
cotton seed meal to work horses Is
Of three-fold value
l. 1t cuts down the expense and
feeding cost Of making a crop.
2. 1t preserves the corn for human
consumption. (The food that our
country is so much in need OF just
now. This Is a serious question.)
3. 1t will open up even better
market for the sale Of cotton seed.
Cotton seed meal Is our own God
given product, at our own door, made
by the sweat of our own brows, and
will. Let us urge that you claim
cotton seed meal as your own and
place it on its true value with other
feeds.
Henry G. Hammond, of Augusta,
Ga, (June Goth, 1900 has this to
say about cotton seed meal:
Let me give in a word my eXpe-
rience rather than my views and con-
illusions on the horse feed problem.
Several years ago, when | was cot
ton seed crusher, on Il small farm
U am not now even remotely con-
nected with that worthy calling), it
was at certain times better to do any
thing with meal than to sell It, There
came into my family, unexpectedly,
two colts. At that time oats were
about $36 per ton and corn about
$26. | be gan feeding my mares on
these expensive grains ground with n
little cotton seed meal busted in.
They took to 1t all right, and before
the colts were six weeks old they
were nibbling at their mothers feed.
Since then more colts have come
the oldest now five years oM-and
none Of them has ever passed day
meal. They have never been out Of
fix The old one weighs LOO
pounds and Is 16 hands high-de-
cidedly larger than dam or sire.
They have carried me SO miles q
day without breathing deep. Here
Is clean-cut, decisive example Of
cotton seed meal as O component
part of a horses ration"
The Westminster Oil and Fertili-
Zer Company has fed cotton seed
meal to work stock off and on for
several years with no ill-effect what
ever. Some stock do not take to 1t
as quick as others, and sometimes
will have to be made go hungry un-
til they have cultivated an appetite
for 1t. We have never seen hun
CRY one refuse to eat 1t yet. We have
: many testimonials and feed formulas
: that we would be glad to hand out to
any one who will call at our office to
get them.
Dr.. TAFT Butler says that If you
are feeding your mule ID pounds Of
corn per day, take out 4 pounds OF
corn and put in 2 pounds OF cotton
seed meal and you will get better re-
suits. Based on the present market
price Of corn, $35 per year can be
save loi cdCll III. DuiiGE Is
considered the highest authority on
feeds and feeding. 1t is as necessary
to produce as 1t Is to save, and "sav-
ing" and producing" arc the watch
words Of the day. Quoting from the
Progressive Farmer, dated March 4,
1917, DR.. Butler recommends the
following ration for work stock:
Ration No. 1--One part cotton
seed meal, by weight, to five parts
corn.
Ration No. 2-One part cotton
seed meal to four parts OF corn, four
parts oats.
Ration No. 3-One part cotton
seed meal to ten parts of oats
ITO be fed with usual quantities
Of grass, hay, fodder, ETC."
This article Is prepared not from
any selfish motive, but that we may
serve our country and our people in
these trying times of threatened fam
inc, and that we may wake up to
what we have in cotton seed meal.
Let us be patriotic on our farms by
economizing and saving the corn for
human consumption. These are war
times.
Why fool away and waste our
nice, bright, highly concentrated
horse and COW feed? The fact that
cotton seed meal is very rich, Is the
only reason that we haven't found
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