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qtience ; but I have no doubt a fine article of food for hogs 



might be prepared from them. 



TETRARCH. 



We have no information upon which we can rely, as to the 

 cost of a mill for making oil from the cotton seed, or of the 

 profit of the operation. It is a question of interest in a cot- 

 ton-growing country, and one which some of our patrons are 

 doubtless prepared to answer. We hope they will do so. 

 We have often heard of the value of cotton seed when heated 

 or partially rotted as food for hogs. We never had much 

 faith in the recommendation, and therefore never tried it. It 

 was perhaps because we knew that they were good for corn, 

 and that corn was, beyond all question, good for hogs. There 

 may, however, be more in it than we have imagined, and if so, 

 there can be no harm in finding it out. Who can tell ? [Eo. 



SECTION XI. FEEDING SHEEP ON COTTON SEED. 



MESSRS. EDITORS : Experience and observation has pre- 

 pared me to believe that sheep which are fed on cotton seed 

 are more subject to the rot and other diseases than when fed 

 on other food. For the last eight years my sheep were win- 

 tered entirely on cotton seed ; during the most of that time 

 they were affected with a most distressing cough and running 

 at the nose, which foretold their condition ; and after they 

 were turned to grass in the spring, running at large, they 

 continued to cough and run at the nose, and when the weather 

 became warm, would sicken and die in large numbers. This 

 season I have fed entirely on fodder and oat straw, which 

 they eat kindly, and in keeping them in this way I find they 

 are now healthy and sound, free from cough and as clean 

 about the nose as a goat. 



