CHAPTER XXXII. 
MEAL AND HULLS: KING COTTON ALSO FEEDS 
OUR FLOCKS AND HERDS 
The correct solution of the cotton seed question 
is the use of the cotton oil mill, whether privately 
installed or by co-operative endeavor, for every 
community. To this mill all seed should be 
brought except what is saved for the next year's 
crop, that the oil — otherwise useless and wasted — 
may be extracted and put on the market as a com- 
mercial product; the by-products — meal and 
seed — should then be returned to the farms from 
which they were taken. On each farm then there 
will be the equivalent of the seed, but now in the 
form of meal and hulls, to take the place of the 
fertility withdrawn from the soil by the cotton 
crop. 
The meal and hulls should not be returned to 
the soil in their organized and original condition, 
however, but first fed to live stock, so as to secure 
the finished product-making begun with the fac- 
tory, further extended to the oil mill, and now 
completed on the factory-farm. For the farm is 
a factory: and factory-farming should be your plan 
of operating. 
HOW THE PLANT WORKS 
The cotton plant, you know, feeds from soil and 
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