COTTON 297 



When cottonseed meal was compared with corn 

 meal, pound for pound, it was proved conclusively 

 that 1 . 73 pounds of corn meal were required to 

 produce the same weight of beef as one pound of 

 cottonseed meal produced. 



This shows that in beef production one ton of 

 cottonseed meal is equal to 1 .73 tons of corn meal. 

 Hence for feeding purposes, when corn is worth 

 fifty cents per bushel or $18 . 00 per ton, cottonseed 

 meal is worth $30 . 80 in beef production. 



Can the cotton farmer longer neglect the cattle 

 industry, when he has in his own hand the feed 

 which is most efficient and at the same time the 

 least expensive and which possesses the richest 

 mammal effects ? 



Cattle raising should go hand in hand with cotton 

 culture. When so combined, they afford an ideal 

 system of agriculture and more completely blend 

 in promoting both profits and the maintenance of 

 fertility than any other sort of land and animal 

 management. We cannot too often emphasize the 

 fact that the opportunity of the South lies in this 

 direction. 



Will you take it up or permit it to pass by, as you 

 have been doing heretofore ? 



Let the idea prevail all the time that fertilizers 

 can be purchased best in the form of cattle foods; 

 take a dollar and buy concentrates like meal and 

 hulls, and first feed these, using the voidings and 

 waste for the manurial effect on the land. You 

 must not get away from this fundamental fact that 

 the meal and hulls contain two values one for 

 feeding and one for fertilizing and that in using 

 them as a fertilizer alone, you are deliberately 

 throwing away one profit $18.75 for every ton of 

 the meal. 



