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air. It lives on disorganized materials. While it 

 enjoys a ration in which cottonseed meal forms a 

 part, yet it does not use this material before nature 

 nas rotted or decomposed its component parts. 

 The same amount of effort that nature uses in doing 

 this work, live stock may give, and to their profit. 

 In other words, what is food for the plant is not 

 food for the animal; what is food for the animal 

 is not food for the plant. In other words, just as 

 the oil mill takes the oil from the seed, and yet 

 turns back to the farmer all the elements of the 

 seed that he can utilize, so the animal takes 

 from the seed certain properties useful to it, and 

 yet returns to the soil practically all the matter 

 the soil could utilize for its enrichment. Meal is 

 food for the animal but not food for the plant, 

 until nature does to it precisely what the animal 

 does to it. This is to decompose it. The animal 

 is benefited because it grows and becomes fat in 

 breaking up the organized forms of meal and fat. 

 When the animal gets through with its work, it 

 returns the fertilizing elements to the soil in the 

 form of liquid and solid excrement. 



THE FACTORY FARM 



The cattle industry should be a part of cotton 

 farming; not simply to raise feeding stuffs on the 

 farm, but to change these from the raw state into 

 finished forms. That is what any factory does: 

 the cotton factory, for example, takes raw cotton 

 and makes it into finished products. On the factory- 

 farm the cotton farmer will take his meal, hulls, 

 grasses, corn stover and hays, and manufacture 

 them into such finished products as milk, butter, 

 cheese and beef, For we lose one of the import- 



