CHAPTER XXXII. 



MEAL AND HULLS: KING COTTON ALSO FEEDS 

 OUR FLOCKS AND HERDS 



The correct solution of the cotton seed question 

 is the use of the cotton oil mill, whether privately 

 installed or by co-operative endeavor, for every 

 community. To this mill all seed should be 

 brought except what is saved for the next year's 

 crop, that the oil otherwise useless and wasted 

 may be extracted and put on the market as a com- 

 mercial product; the by-products meal and 

 seed should then be returned to the farms from 

 which they were taken. On each farm then there 

 will be the equivalent of the seed, but now in the 

 form of meal and hulls, to take the place of the 

 fertility withdrawn from the soil by the cotton 

 crop. 



The meal and hulls should not be returned to 

 the soil in their organized and original condition, 

 however, but first fed to live stock, so as to secure 

 the finished product-making begun with the fac- 

 tory, further extended to the oil mill, and now 

 completed on the factory-farm. For the farm is 

 a factory: and factory-farming should be your plan 

 of operating. 



HOW THE PLANT WORKS 



The cotton plant, you know, feeds from soil and 



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