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Show ettOlNO COTTON SEED HULLS. Tl,lf 1nm lo lh lulrrmen aa rnw Ir.rt. rorthobenellt of IhoaeaoaltnatMaa to lirt able to Ret cotton erl linlU, I will Ktleeomiihlnof tnyeilrlencelnfiel lag tbeul for tho Mat two )earei Alxint 1S I bw them fed on n lare icalf by Mr. Albert MontKomery, nf Npw Orlcana It wai feetllnjf aliunt COO Teina aleera (in iinlla and menl nlune. ami ft finer lot of cattle I never anw. Two yu ajrn, when I cniraKeJ In dilrylnir, here, I fnnnd hnll4 innoh the cheaet and moat avallablo ronjh feci (ihtalnahle. I fill It in comlilnation with wheat bran an I cotton eee-1 meal all winter, with miet mlafactory re-anlta, re-anlta, although I waa forced to keep my cow np in a amnl! lot wlthont pasturJKO rr anyklnd. Abonttheliildillenf April, when grata wna putting out nlTly, tho inllh cloae.1 down and 1 coul 1 Ret no more hnlla In Hn of an liicrcnaM grain feeil and tho abundant )uunt Kraaa, the cowa went down conalderahly in milk. At no time during the amnnior of 1900 til 1 IlerinuH paalllro and bran and cotton need meal gUoaiftoodreaQH M did hnlla with then) latter fowl I In v, inter. I hue continued, tu fee4 hnlli ever alnca wltlj Increvnjil eatlfa tlon. I nut coufllent they are) worth more, pound for ,und, than IWinnda, Timothy or any other Kraa hiy. Ties mo wllh whloli they can 14 hnidlel and fetl coiiptaforaoinethtn. lean prtiwiro n fret (a inlatnro of alx lanimla of hnlla, two jiounda of bran an 1 two jmunda of cotton aneil meal) for thirty cowa lu fif-tinn fif-tinn inlnutea. tho frtid atuff bHnK In ono corner of the Inrii, I hno never fcl nnythlnK tlut oowa will eat up bo clean. 1 am wlII aware that inoit eclentlflo wrilera do not accord to cotton Mttl hulla tholilxh placo In tho real,, of imr fe-I UnlTa lint I do. They nrguo tliat hnlli IN? a very low ilegreo of iliReatibUt ty and are vatnble eltnply na a metne of lliltnfc up1 tho mw'a atomicli. lint rhaiM theao opinlnna are btaeil more nm n rhoinlcal nniilj,li tli.m iipun nn actual fetflluif trial. I am Inclined tu think the ooiv'a Btomacli la tho laboratory labora-tory In which tho conclualvo teat ahouM bo tnado W. tX Walborn lu tiouthern LivuRUickJuttrnaL nT,k he llora-a. Tho hayrack In thoahApo of an tn-TcrteJ tn-TcrteJ wedge Is found by thoao who have trhtl It to la) innoh lttrr than that wukli la tho other way, amalli rat tho brtttoin than at tho lop. In tho rack In the tlluftration the amall end of the rack (anunlevel with tin haymow, tho 1010 in I la down near tho horeo'a noeo, on u 1. vi I with tho n i Imllom of tho fmllaii, an.V cf tend from cloeo loaldo tho fool- bnl arpe4 tho cod of tho stall, Irni-lnif an ojien apnea alxjo too fooilfaox. Tlio front of tho rack la alattul up ami downlntlieliaual miuner.fuaUlnir IL tho lioratopull j ' out lay through u,tt,rv. thu Blau. In t!U maiuck. hapwl rack the hayUpreienteil from bulnff wedijetl In nt tho bottom and thua Knttim; "iminaru" and left. Homi) prefer ali that the rack ahall bo slatted aenna tho buttoin. A Rood alzo for the rack la ono foot and n half l.lo at tho top. Tho elojio of the rack i toward tho Interior of tho etill anil thu hone. Aalopoot ellinclmwill Loanfttclent. TImim who hao tried thli nick, larger at tho bottom than at tin top, pnfer it to nil othera. OltTti.trila. Cork crowing In Bpnln nnd Tortngal la an extremely precarious limlnea, and It deinaliila coiiflderaUe capital Only the other day a man In this city v, ae seeking n pnrtni r with (100,000 to put Into i cork I fun at in ftialu, w 1th a leuac of 150 eara. Tin' lwrk Is cut only once lu ten )cara, but aa tho foreets are very lario tho grower managee to obtain an nnuual croji. This ) civr' crop la Just la ginning to come Into tho Anitric-in market, the treea hiving ltularked in July and Auguat Crude cork cornea over In griat bald weighing from 1? to SJ3 itonmls c ich Tho heat to which It it auliJcUcil in order to tl itten out IU curves alao drivei out uiost of tho IiimxIs, such as ono would intnrally exiM-ct to And in lurk. As cork la too light to form a ca-o of Itatlf, tho cork carrying veaaels alao I bring oil, ollca, vilnu unit heavy iner ihanilUe of urlous sorta. New York bun, |