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Show KEEP COTTONSEED AT HOME Exportation of Meal and Cake Is Agricultural Ag-ricultural Crime Not Enough Produced for Domestic Use. One of the many agricultural crimes of America, it is well stated, is the exportation of cottonseed meal and cake. It would be a wise law, If it weie .constitutional, which should prohibit pro-hibit all exportation of these products. prod-ucts. There Is not enough for home consumption in spite of the enormous cotton crop of- the South, says Baltimore Balti-more American. In fact, there could not be a surplus as long as there remains re-mains a single wornout acre in the Uniled States. Yet we continue to sell a large portion every year of our very birthright. Denmark, for instance, in-stance, has largely built up her wonderful won-derful dairy industry through the purchase pur-chase of a large share of the 1,200,000,-000 1,200,000,-000 pounds of cottonseed meal and cake which the United States annually exports. At current prices the seed alone from an acre of cotton is worth as much as all the corn that could be produced upon that acre. Every ounce of cottonseed grown in America should be fed on American farms and its enormous fertilizing strength thus returned to the soil. Cottonseed meal contains over 40 per cent of protein, or meat and muscle-forming material while cornmeal contains about 9 per cent and oats or wheat less than 12 per cent. Cottonseed meal contains about 7 per cent of nitrogen, and as a fertilizer is worth about $32 a ton However, It should not be applied as a fertilizer; it should be fed to stock on the farm, and If the resulting manure ma-nure is properly handled the great bulk of this $32 will be found In the manure. Poor food makes poor manure ma-nure and rich food rich manure |