298 COTTON 



MEAL AND HULLS FOR HORSES AND MULES 



Horses and mules may be fed moderate quantities 

 of meal and hulls with great advantage. No 

 danger attaches to the use of hulls, but meal has 

 always been fed rather sparingly. In recent years 

 many experiments have been conducted which show 

 that meal can form a part of the grain ration both 

 profitably and satisfactorily. From two to four 

 pounds may be used daily, although it is best not to 

 make it a constant and regular diet. 



COTTONSEED MEAL FOR CALVES AND PIGS 



For reasons unknown meal seems not to be a de- 

 sirable feeding stuff for calves and pigs. For a few 

 weeks meal may be fed with impunity, but there 

 soon comes a time when bad results follow some- 

 times death. 



WE NEED MORE LIVE STOCK 



While there is profit today in the razor-back hog, 

 the long-legged, thin back, scrub steer, and the light 

 carcassed wether, we need more animals and 

 better animals. 



The by-products of our oil mills are not fully 

 consumed : we need more cattle and sheep to utilize 

 these materials . Of course, meal and hulls are no 

 longer wasted; if the Cotton Belt is unable to utilize 

 the product, the rest of the world is eager to secure 

 it. But why should the South permit this ? Its 

 lands suffer, since a ton of its meal when shipped 

 away, means just so much valuable plant food, so 

 much actual Cotton Belt soil -richness, sent else- 

 where to build up lands in some other State. So 



