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When cottonseed meal is used simply as a fertil- 

 izer, therefore, there is a loss of $18.75 on every 

 ton thus utilized $18.75 a ton actually thrown 

 away by the cotton farmer who is not thrifty 

 enough to raise stock and to get all the profits from 

 his seed. There is no proposition less open to 

 argument than that on every farm on which meal 

 is used as a fertilizer, we should first feed that meal 

 to cattle so as to secure the double value. 



And then also bear in mind that our cotton lands 

 need animal manures, more than fertilizers, for 

 whenever and wherever used, stable manures show 

 a greater efficiency than their actual nitrogen, 

 phosphorus, and potassium content would indicate. 

 This is because they supply humus so much needed 

 by all our lands, sick as they are from the one- 

 crop system. 



Much of the meal now produced in the South ( 

 finds its way to the dairy farms of Germany, \ 

 England and the northern and western parts of 

 our own country. 



Rich in protein, which is the basis of milk pro- 

 duction, meal is naturally winning much favor as 

 a dairy ration. A dairy cow with a capacity of 

 three gallons of milk daily, requires two and one- 

 half pounds of digestible protein. She can get 

 this only from the protein of the food she con- 

 sumes. Oil or starch or fiber will not make pro- 

 tein. You cannot convert lead into gold by any 

 process, nor can you take foods like timothy hay, 

 orchard grass, corn stover, corn and like products, 

 and make them furnish protein for the milk ration. 

 Cottonseed meal stands foremost of all vegetable 

 feeding stuffs in the quantity of digestible protein it 

 contains. It follows then, that the cotton farmer, 

 since he produces meal and since he produces the 



