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COTTON 
FEEDING VALUE OF COTTONSEED NOT YET 
APPRECIATED 
Moreover, we are learning more and more each 
year of the feeding values of cottonseed meal — 
learning how to combine it with other feeds and 
feed in larger proportions to different classes of 
stock. In fact, its use as a human food has been 
seriously contemplated, a thoughtful journal re- 
cently declaring that " if cotton grew in Michigan, 
Battle Creek would be marketing a hundred 
thousand tons of the cottonseed meal mixed with 
wheat flour and put up in pound packages . It would 
be advertised, and with truth, as the only complete 
ration for the human race. A pound of cottonseed 
meal contains all the elements necessary for whole- 
some, nutritious bread; it contains three times as 
much digestible protein as the highest grade of 
wheat flour or the best oatmeal; it contains twice 
as much oil as oatmeal and ten times as much oil 
as wheat flour." 
Whether or not we shall ever have cottonseed 
meal breakfast food, the fact remains that in using 
it as a fertilizer we are wasting millions in animal 
feeding values every year — and this is one great 
leak in cotton profits we shall eventually learn to 
stop. 
WASTEFUL TO BUY NITROGENOUS FERTILIZEES 
We are also wasting millions of dollars for the 
purchase of nitrogenous fertilizers, when the cow 
pea might be made to keep our Southern soils 
abundantly supplied with this most costly of all 
fertilizing ingredients. Making a rough guess we 
should say that the farmers in the Carolinas and 
