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a live stock food. It has steadily advanced in value 

 from $3 to $5 a ton up through a steadily increas- 

 ing scale until it has reached at times as high as 

 $30 per ton. In 1909 the cottonseed crop of the 

 South was valued at over $150,000,000. The oil 

 meal cake made from cottonseed is one of the best 

 meat and milk-producing feeds known. Yet most 

 of this enormous amount is now shipped North 

 or to Europe and fed there, its ultimate fertilizing 

 value being lost to the southern fields and gained 

 by the land upon which the feeding is done. 



At the same time that thousands of tons of valu- 

 able forage are being allowed to waste, and that 

 these millions of dollars worth of rich, concen- 

 trated feed are being shipped from the South, the 

 packing houses at Kansas City, Chicago, Omaha 

 and St. Louis are shipping into the South millions 

 of pounds of dressed meats, which have, in large 

 part, been finished upon southern-grown cotton- 

 seed meal. 



What is true of the cattle situation, is equally 

 true with regard to mules. For various reasons 

 the mule is much in favor all over the South for a 

 work animal, and for a great many years the South 

 has been the principal market for the thousands of 

 mules produced in the North and Northwest. In 

 South Carolina alone it is estimated that at least 

 25,000 horses and mules must be added to the state's 

 live stock supply annually in order to keep up the 

 supply of work stock. At the present time, a very 

 large per cent of these are produced outside of the 

 state, and this condition prevails all over the South. 

 Yet there is no section of the country more suited 

 to the growing of good mules. There is scarcely a 

 day in the year when a young mule will not run at 

 large in the woods and waste lands of the South 



