COTTON 
297 
When cottonseed meal was compared with corn 
meal, pound for pound, it was proved conclusively 
that 1.73 pounds of corn meal were required to 
produce the same weight of beef as one pound of 
cottonseed meal produced. 
This shows that in beef production one ton of 
cottonseed meal is equal to 1 .73 tons of corn meal. 
Hence for feeding purposes, when corn is worth 
fifty cents per bushel or $18 . 00 per ton, cottonseed 
meal is worth $30 . 80 in beef production. 
Can the cotton farmer longer neglect the cattle 
industry, when he has in his own hand the feed 
which is most efficient and at the same time the 
least expensive and which possesses the richest 
manurial effects ? 
Cattle raising should go hand in hand with cotton 
culture. When so combined, they afford an ideal 
system of agriculture and more completely blend 
in promoting both profits and the maintenance of 
fertility than any other sort of land and animal 
management. We cannot too often emphasize the 
fact that the opportunity of the South lies in this 
direction. 
Will you take it up or permit it to pass by, as you 
have been doing heretofore ? 
Let the idea prevail all the time that fertilizers 
can be purchased best in the form of cattle foods; 
take a dollar and buy concentrates like meal and 
hulls, and first feed these, using the voidings and 
waste for the manurial effect on the land. You 
must not get away from this fundamental fact that 
the meal and hulls contain two values — one for 
feeding and one for fertilizing — and that in using 
them as a fertilizer alone, you are deliberately 
throwing away one profit — $18 . 75 for every ton of 
the meal. 
