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COTTON 
ant values of our meal when it is used simply as 
a fertilizing stuff: we lose the tissue form that 
plants in their growing made. 
Now, we use our meal largely as a fertilizing 
material. We estimate that value at $25 . 00 per 
ton. But the dairy farmer and the beef farmer 
find cottonseed meal an invaluable food at that 
price. Hence it must have both a feeding and a 
fertilizing value. 
Let us see : does butter or milk or cheese or beef 
use the fertilizing material of the meal? Surely 
not, for in a whole ton of butter, but 48 cents of 
fertility is found. In a ton of milk but $2.80 
of fertility is found. Does it go in the dairy stock ? 
Of course not, else these dairy animals today 
would be as large as houses or barns. The 
material they used found its way back again 
to the soil. First it went into the feed lot, and the 
barn-yard, or wherever excrement dropped. But 
if not wasted it is in the land. Experiments show 
that after allowing for various quantities used by 
the animal products, such as butter, milk, beef and 
the like, and legitimate wastes that naturally fol- 
low the management of cattle, fully three-fourths 
of the original fertility may be saved and returned 
to the soil. 
THE DOUBLE VALUE OF MEAL AND HULLS 
We therefore have two values: one for feeding, 
and one for fertilizing. This may be expressed 
as follows: 
Value as a feeding stuff $25.00 
Value as a fertilizer 18.75 
Total value 
$43.75 
