The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
A Little War

| The nation has been at war fol-
forty days. Agricultural Dixie.
natural state is a state of war. Fol
a generation Teutonic Allies Of the
insect world have made war upon
her agricultural ability and re-
sources.
She, with her Entente Allies
among them the United States De.
partment of Agriculture. the Elk.
pertinent Stations, Colleges and the
press, has been fighting, is still
fighting. the Militaristic Boil Weevil,
the Blood Sucking Cattle Tick and
the Unspeakable Hookworm. which
last physically enervates the farm
er's boy and mentally makes the
farmer see things crooked to his
own, to the miller's, and to the
| hdIiOn 3, disadvantage.
Feed the Calvary
Dixie needs, the Nation needs,
another ally, the horse and his half
brother, the mule. Of all farm
animals. these are the most I'M
scientifically, most wastefully fed.
They are fed more grain than is
good for them, grain that is good
food, grain that is needed for hu-
man food. Food that men can't or
won't eat is good food for them.
The sugar of black strap molasses,
the starch of the corn cob and of
the cottonseed hull, all carbohy-
drates Interchangeable in part for corn
and oats) and the protein of cotton
seed meal 1.-THE flesh and muscle
building constituent of food) horses
and mules do not but should get in
war times. If they do, it will be
better for them, better for US and
better for our Entente Allies.
King Cotton's Widow
King Cotton is dead. Peace to his
ashes! He died because he put all
the emphasis of his once royal power
on fine rainment instead of food. He
died because he denied the horses
and mules who shaved for him (too
many of whom still slave for him
alone) the food they craved but
couldn't get, which exists in the seed
of the cotton plant. Corn, the King
of forage and food plants, in real
power and usefulness. has supplanted
him.
But the cotton plant is not dead,
for in Cottonseed, the Queen of all
oil-bearing seeds, we have a worthy
helpment for King Corn.
How Wars Are Won
The lines of ignorance and preju-
dice that bar the way to less wasteful,
less expensive horse and mule feeding
that bar the way to more cheaply
raised crops, to more food for man
from the same acreage. are much
like the German line acroes France.
To pierce these obstructing Ger
man lines France has had to do three
things:
First-Secure an equally power
full ally (England).
Second-Standardize guns and am
munition.
Third--Provide a curtain of fire.
So. too, if we would pierce these
formidable lines of wasteful feeding
we must have:
Tristan alliance between Cotton
seed and Corn.
Second-A Standardization of at
least one corn and one cottonseed
product, the one containing the full
food strength of the whole ear of corn
and the other the full food strength
of the whole cottonseed.
Third-A Curtain of Fire (publi-
city, brought against ignorance and
prejudice by the joint efforts of the
u. s. Department of Agriculture,
the State Stations and Colleges. the
corn millers, the oil millers. the corn
growers, the cottonseed growers, the
press and even the pulpit.
"Four Eleven Forty Four"
The combination of these two
standardized corn and cottonseed
products into a standardized COM
pound, a sort of "Cotton-and-corn
Grist". honestly but not prejudicially
named, honestly offered to the public