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high-priced lands of the Central West. He 

 said: "Why, of course. What is the hindrance? 

 But the Southern farmer must quit sending his 

 cotton seed meal over the world to enrich other 

 lands. He must use the rich fertilizer himself." 

 It is deplorable that the Southern farmer has 

 allowed the larger part of this valuable fertil- 

 izing and feed product to be shipped from its 

 native territory to other sections of the United 

 States and to Europe. The full feed value may 

 be derived from cotton seed products and at 

 the same time, if the manures from the stock 

 are returned to the soil, from 70 to 90 per cent, 

 of the fertilizing value may be retained on the 

 farm. The combined feed and fertilizing value 

 of a ton of high-grade cotton seed meal when 

 fed to animals and the manure carefully saved 

 and returned to the land is about $50; when 

 used alone as feed or a fertilizer its value is 

 about $30. The farmer sustains a tremendous 

 loss when he fails to get both the feed and fer- 

 tilizing value from cotton seed meal. When 

 the Southern farmer appreciates the import- 

 ance of feeding the meal and returning the 

 manure to the land, the South will become one of 

 the greatest stock-raising countries in the world. 



