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most valuable dairy food, should combine dairy 

 farming with cotton farming. In this way double 

 profits may be made and cotton lands may be im- 

 proved. 



EFFECT OF COTTONSEED MEAL ON BUTTER 



When meal is fed as a part or as the whole of 

 the concentrate of a dairy ration, it raises the 

 melting point of butter. As a matter of fact, cot- 

 tonseed meal makes a harder butter than any 

 other feed. A number of tests have been made, 

 and the value of cottonseed meal as a superior 

 butter-producing food is proved beyond all doubt. 

 When fed in combination with hulls with no other 

 feeding stuffs, a relatively inferior butter is pro- 

 duced, but when combined with such materials 

 as corn ensilage, corn stover, and cowpea hay, 

 no better butter can be made by any feeding ration 

 in the world. 



THE VALUE OF MEAL AS A DAIRY FOOD 



It is not stating the case too strongly to say 

 that as a food for dairy cows cottonseed meal is 

 superior to all others. When compared with 

 wheat bran, the importance and value of which is 

 known wherever butter is made, cottonseed meal 

 increases the quantity of milk one-fifth. When 

 compared with corn meal, the milk production is 

 greatly increased. This is evidence enough to 

 show that the value of cottonseed meal as a dairy 

 food is not yet generally appreciated, and that for 

 years to come, constantly increasing quantities 

 will be used by wide-awake dairymen. 



MEAL AND HULLS FOR BEEF PRODUCTION 



Already the beef industry is assuming consid- 



