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meat and not in the oil or hull. A curious fact, which 

 appears demonstrated thoroughly, is that the meal may 

 be given safely, even in moderately large quantities, to 

 cattle, and that the digestive processes are responsible 

 for changes whereby hogs may work over the droppings 

 of such cattle without danger. This is the testimony of 

 many stockmen, but the extent of the gain which the 

 hogs get from the cottonseed meal in the droppings is 

 ])roblematical. 



If some practical means is found which makes cotton- 

 seed meal a safe supplemental feed, its value in pork pro- 

 duction in the southern states will be immense, and mean 

 the utilization at home of a product exported to the ex- 

 tent of a billion pounds annually to pay for feeding ma- 

 terial bought largely from other sections. 



This should not be construed to imply that cotton 

 food products can be made to take the place of corn 

 with the pork-maker of the South. This idea has been 

 ]>revalent, but, to quote from Bulletin No. 85 of the 

 Arkansas experiment station, it "may well be abandoned. 

 They cannot replace, but may prove valuable adjuncts to 

 corn or any other starchy or carbohydrate food which 

 may be found a\'ailable in the South for hog feeding. 

 . . . .\t $1.25 per hundred, which is its least cost laid 

 down here (Arkansas station, 1904), in half-ton quan- 

 tities, cottonseed meal as a large constituent of any ration 

 cannot be called a cheap feed. As an exclusive feed, if 

 it could be used that way, it is more expensive than corn. 

 Corn itself makes a one-sided or badly balanced ration 

 for pigs, or any other kind of young stock. When fed 

 alone to pigs, it results in stunted growth, unthrift and 



