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ant values of our meal when it is used simply as 

 a fertilizing stuff: we lose the tissue form that 

 plants in their growing made. 



Now, we use our meal largely as a fertilizing 

 material. We estimate that value at $25.00 per 

 ton. But the dairy farmer and the beef farmer 

 find cottonseed meal an invaluable food at that 

 price. Hence it must have both a feeding and a 

 fertilizing value. 



Let us see: does butter or milk or cheese or beef 

 use the fertilizing material of the meal? Surely 

 not, for in a whole ton of butter, but 48 cents of 

 fertility is found. In a ton of milk but $2.80 

 of fertility is found. Does it go in the dairy stock ? 

 Of course not, else these dairy animals today 

 would be as large as houses or barns. The 

 material they used found its way back again 

 to the soil. First it went into the feed lot, and the 

 barn-yard, or wherever excrement dropped. But 

 if not wasted it is in the land. Experiments show 

 that after allowing for various quantities used by 

 the animal products, such as butter, milk, beef and 

 the like, and legitimate wastes that naturally fol- 

 low the management of cattle, fully three-fourths 

 of the original fertility may be saved and returned 

 to the soil. 



THE DOUBLE VALUE OF MEAL AND HULLS 



We therefore have two values : one for feeding, 

 and one for fertilizing. This may be expressed 

 as follows: 



Value as a feeding stuff $25.00 



Value as a fertilizer.. 18.75 



Total value . . .$43.75 



