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stance, ever sustained any injury from this course. They ate 

 them freely, and from some comparative experiments, I think 

 they kept in better condition than others that had the same 

 allowance of corn, without the cotton seed. I say, I think, 

 for the experiment was not very carefully made. I have also 

 fed them boiled, and again I think without injury. My con- 

 clusion is, that with corn, hogs may safely have a small (equal) 

 allowance of cotton seed. At the same time I am fully con- 

 vinced they are very injurious to pigs ; but managed as above, 

 I never noticed any injury. I noticed that the hogs mace- 

 rated, and sucked the pulp from the seed, and dropped the 

 hull and lint upon the ground perhaps pigs do not do this. 

 Would not hulling free them from any injurious quality ? 

 Cannot some one answer ? 



SECTION X. COTTON SEED. 



MR. EDITOR : Will you, or some of your correspondents, 

 please inform me what would be the cost of a mill for extract- 

 ing the oil from cotton seed ? It is not very certain that it 

 would be advisable for a cotton planter to manufacture oil 

 from his seed, even if he could make it a profitable business, 

 for they constitute one of the most valuable of our manures ; 

 but I should like to know what the profit would be. It would, 

 at any rate, add to the interest of your columns if you could 

 furnish your readers with an article on this subject, stating 

 the cost, and modus operandi of manufacturing the oil. 



I should like also to know if any of your subscribers have 

 ever made the experiment of feeding hogs upon cotton seed, 

 and what was the result. I made the experiment once, or 

 rather my hogs did it without my knowledge or consent, of 

 feeding them on raw, unrotted seed ; they died in conse- 



