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COTTON 
MEAL AND HULLS FOR HORSES AND MULES 
Horses and mules may be fed moderate quantities 
of meal and hulls with great advantage. No 
danger attaches to the use of hulls, but meal has 
always been fed rather sparingly. In recent years 
many experiments have been conducted which show 
that meal can form a part of the grain ration both 
profitably and satisfactorily. From two to four 
pounds may be used daily, although it is best not to 
make it a constant and regular diet. 
COTTONSEED MEAL FOR CALVES AND PIGS 
For reasons unknown meal seems not to be a de- 
sirable feeding stuff for calves and pigs. For a few 
weeks meal may be fed with impunity, but there 
soon comes a time when bad results follow — some- 
times death. 
WE NEED MORE LIVE STOCK 
While there is profit today in the razor-back hog, 
the long-legged, thin back, scrub steer, and the light 
carcassed wether, we need more animals and 
better animals. 
The by-products of our oil mills are not fully 
consumed : we need more cattle and sheep to utilize 
these materials . Of course, meal and hulls are no 
longer wasted; if the Cotton Belt is unable to utilize 
the product, the rest of the world is eager to secure 
it. But why should the South permit this? Its 
lands suffer, since a ton of its meal when shipped 
away, means just so much valuable plant food, so 
much actual Cotton Belt soil-richness, sent else- 
where to build up lands in some other State. So 
