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most valuable dairy food, should combine dairy 
farming with cotton farming. In this way double 
profits may be made and cotton lands may be im- 
proved. 
EFFECT OF COTTONSEED MEAL ON BUTTER 
When meal is fed as a part or as the whole of 
the concentrate of a dairy ration, it raises the 
melting point of butter. As a matter of fact, cot- 
tonseed meal makes a harder butter than any 
other feed. A number of tests have been made, 
and the value of cottonseed meal as a superior 
butter-producing food is proved beyond all doubt. 
When fed in combination with hulls with no other 
feeding stuffs, a relatively inferior butter is pro- 
duced, but when combined with such materials 
as corn ensilage, corn stover, and cowpea hay, 
no better butter can be made by any feeding ration 
in the world. 
THE VALUE OF MEAL AS A DAIRY FOOD 
It is not stating the case too strongly to say 
that as a food for dairy cows cottonseed meal is 
superior to all others. When compared with 
wheat bran, the importance and value of which is 
known wherever butter is made, cottonseed meal 
increases the quantity of milk one-fifth. When 
compared with corn meal, the milk production is 
greatly increased. This is evidence enough to 
show that the value of cottonseed meal as a dairy 
food is not yet generally appreciated, and that for 
years to come, constantly increasing quantities 
will be used by wide-awake dairymen. 
MEAL AND HULLS FOR BEEF PRODUCTION 
Already the beef industry is assuming consid- 
