70 COTTON 



FEEDING VALUE OF COTTONSEED NOT YET 

 APPRECIATED 



Moreover, we are learning more and more each 

 year of the feeding values of cottonseed meal 

 learning how to combine it with other feeds and 

 feed in larger proportions to different classes of 

 stock. In fact, its use as a human food has been 

 seriously contemplated, a thoughtful journal re- 

 cently declaring that "if cotton grew in Michigan, 

 Battle Creek would be marketing a hundred 

 thousand tons of the cottonseed meal mixed with 

 wheat flour and put up in pound packages . It would 

 be advertised, and with truth, as the only complete 

 ration for the human race. A pound of cottonseed 

 meal contains all the elements necessary for whole- 

 some, nutritious bread; it contains three times as 

 much digestible protein as the highest grade of 

 wheat flour or the best oatmeal; it contains twice 

 as much oil as oatmeal and ten times as much oil 

 as wheat flour." 



Whether or not we shall ever have cottonseed 

 meal breakfast food, the fact remains that in using 

 it as a fertilizer we are wasting millions in animal 

 feeding values every year and this is one great 

 leak in cotton profits we shall eventually learn to 

 stop. 



WASTEFUL TO BUY NITROGENOUS FERTILIZERS 



We are also wasting millions of dollars for the 

 purchase of nitrogenous fertilizers, when the cow 

 pea might be made to keep our Southern soils 

 abundantly supplied with this most costly of all 

 fertilizing ingredients. Making a rough guess we 

 should say that the farmers in the Carolinas and 



