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Southern farmers should keep enough stock 

 to consume all the cotton seed meal on the 

 farm, but it will be years before they can 

 accumulate enough stock to do this. At 

 present some meal is fed to dairy cows and 

 animals in the nearby towns, but compara- 

 tively little of it goes back to the farm except 

 what is used directly in the form of fertilizer. 

 Cotton seed meal is one of the most satis- 

 factory forms of nitrogen that can be used 

 in making mixed fertilizers for the common farm 

 crops. It is not only rich in nitrogen but 

 contains considerable quantities of phosphoric 

 acid and potash. The fertilizing elements 

 in cotton seed meal are slowly available, a 

 quality which makes it desirable for such crops 

 as have a long growing period. Unless the 

 cotton farmer has enough stock to consume his 

 meal, it will pay better to use it as a fertilizer 

 than to send it away to enrich other sections. 



Hulls. Hulls are used for feed, paper, 

 fertilizers and packing, but of recent years 

 almost the entire supply has been utilized 

 as a stock feed at prices ranging from $3 to 

 $10 per ton. In addition to the outside cover- 

 ing of the cotton seed, the hulls contain small 



