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Show COTTON SEED FOR CORN. Exchange to be Made to Aid the Farmers of Mexico. El Paso. Heavy trains of cotton seed to be exchanged in the United States for corn to help the food shortage short-age in northern Mexico are en route to Neuvo Laredo and Piedras Negras, according to a dispatch received at Juarez. The cotton seed will be free from export duty to help the farmers of the Laguna district, it was stated. The farmers, however, are said to own but a small part of the seed, the major portion having been sold to the government. |