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r-?? A FAST, OF Gnon thtm :faMmft srr Pace 5 A Farm and Home Weekly for The CarolinaSi Virim Florida. VoL XXlXi No. 49 SATURDAY, DEGE&BER 5 1914 $1 a Year; ;5& a HOW 0 much interest, haW been excited by an article onfeejding cottpii seed that we are' againasked to summar ize the proper policies for feeding to -horses, cattle and hogs. r " Up to the amount which can be sat isfactorily fed, cotton seed are fully equal to corn; pound for pound, for feeding cattle,' but owing - to - the large amount of oil they contain; probably hot more than one-half pound of seed should be given for every 100 pounds of the animal's weight. The oil in the seed has a feeding value, up to the lieeds of the animal and the ex tent to which it can be digested. As compared with cottonseed meal, three pounds of cotton seed are equal to about two pounds of cottonseed meal, or a little less. V ; Cotton seed have not been used for feeding horses and mules, but a few pounds a day two or three would probably be of value, especially for idle, mature animals or those doing slow work, and might take the place of as many pounds of corn. Cotton seed, like cottonseed meal, is not a suitable feed for hogs, except for a short period three or four weeks. If the cotton, seed are cooked they are probably made more palatable for most animals, and possibly may be fed. in slightly larger quantities than raw seed without causing scouring or other dis turbances of the digestive functions. Since the seed are large and soft, it is not probable that they are in creased in feeding value by grinding or crushing. When three pounds of cotton seed can be exchanged for as much as two pounds of cottonseed meal we ad vise making the trade, unless the expense of hauling the seed and meal is consider able Unless enough meal in excess of this proportion can be obtained to pay for the hauling, we advise feeding cat tle as much as one-half pound of cot ton seed for every .100 pounds of the animal's weight. It is not best to feed much cottonseed meal in "addition to the amount of seed suggested ; but a little may be added, especially to mature dry or beef cattle. - - Some believe that cooking, soaking and souring cotton seed make them harm less .for. .hogs; ; but this is hot entirely : correct. .-AsVstate such "tfeatmetjtimay: make it possible to feed a little', larger quantity for a longer period, but it is doubtful if cotton seed; no matter how TO FEED COTTON SEtD ir . . ; I ..." '""" "" - - - ' I 'j .J p ! , - ' ,i MORE EVIDENCE THAT THE SOUTH CAN GROW GOOD LIVESTOCK Four-year-old mule out of a Clyde mare, raised at Mississippi A. & M. College. This mule weighed 1250 lbs. at four years, and sold for 1250 DON'T FAIL TO READ Calculating the Capacity of a Silo Cooperation in Selling Cotton Seed Gets $4 to $5 More a Ton . ... Cost of Growing Cotton . . . . December Suggestions for the Housewife Does Your Market Pay Fair Prices for Cotton?" ' " Give Your Christmas Money to Wife and Children Instead of the Saloon-keeper How About the Home Orchard? ; . In the Flower Garden. . .... . Let's Have a Liquorless Christmas . . . Little Stories of Communities That Coop- erate . " . ' . . y . .'". Livestock Suggestions for December . The Negro and Southern Farm" Life . "Use No Fertilizer" Is Poor Advice . . treated, should form more than one-third the ration of a hog, or be fed for more than four weeks. While the oil in the seed as a feed value, to the extent that oil can be used in the ration, it has no fertilizer value and, therefore, the best use to which the large amount of oil in cotton seed can be put is to extract it and use as human food. ' The meal contains more oil than is needed in a ration for livestock, even after the oir mills have, taken out all that is practicable under present milling pro cesses. If,; therefore, the mills will give enough meai, over 1350 pounds, for a ton of seed, tot pay for hauling the seed to market and the meal back to the farm, we advise the farmer to exchange his seed : for meal and feed meal instead of seed. Page 3 6 10 8 13 7. 10 4 10 6 12 11 3 ' Dry cattle may be well wintered on cot ton seed and roughage ; especially if the roughage be half silage and the other half legume' hay, or if the roughage be half legume hay and the other half corn stover or some grass hay. ( . . J 1 v., ,. ltd
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