The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1917-06-06
A BATTLE CRY FOR FooDDoM.
"A horse! A horse! NY kingdom
for q horse!" liking Cotton.)
A Little War.

state Is q state of war. For a gener-
alton Teutonic Allies Of the insect
world have made war upon her agri-
cultural ability and
She with her Entente Allies, among
hem the U. s. Department of Agri-
the Experiment Stations,
Colleges and the press, has been fight
ng, is still fighting, the Militaristie
Boil Weevil, the Blood Sucking Cattle
Tick, the Bulgarian Pink Boil Worm
and the Unspeakable Hookworm.
which last physically enervates the
farmers boy and mentally makes the
see things crooked to his own,
the miller's. and to the nations, dis
Feed the Cavalry.
Dixie needs, the Nation needs. an
other ally, the horse and his half
brother, the mule. OF all farm ami
mails, these are most unscientifically,
most w~astefully, fed. They are fed
more grain than is good for them,
grain that is good food, grain that is
needed for human 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 carbo-
hydrates Interchangeable in part for
corn and oats) and the protein of cot
ton seed meaD (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 raiment 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 useful
ness, has supplanted him.
But the COTTON PLANT is not
dead for in Cottonseed the Queen Of
all oil-bearing seeds, we have a wor-
thy helpmeet for King Corn.
How Wars Are Won.
The lines of ignorance and prejudice
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 lines across France.
To pierce these obstructing German
lines France has had to do three
things:
First-Secure an equally powerful
ally (England).
Second-Standardize guns and am
mrnition.
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 corr 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 publicity
brought against ignorance and preju-
dice by the joint efforts of the U. s..
Department of Agriculture, the State
Stations and Colleges, the corn mill
ers, the oil millers, the orr growers,
the c]ottonseed growers, the press and
wen the pulpit.
-Four Eleven Forty Four"
The combination of these two stand
ardized corn and cottonseed products
into a standardized compound, a sort
of "Cotton-and- Corn Grist," honestly
but not prejudicially named, honestly
offered to the public as compound lard
was and oleomargarine was not,
! whether so combined at the feeding
trough, maze at the corn OF OIL MIL,
or whether combined with other prop
er material by Mixed Feed Manufact-
urers in ever better balanced proper
| ton, will result in a final product
closely approaching the magic figures,
4-11-44, 4 fat, IL protein, IA carbohy-
drates, nutritive ratio of 1 to as, akin
to the composition of oats, figures
which will appeal to any negro mule
feeder and feed which will appeal to
any mule.
President Wilson.
The people who raise corn and the
people who raise cottonseed united to
elect the present commander-in-chief
of the U. S. Army and Navy.
He has appealed to both to increase
greatly the food and feed supply for
ourselves and our allies: We should
remain united for this purpose. We
should sacrifice our agricultural pref
udices in view of the nations need,
as already we have sacrificed old mil
itary prejudices. We should cheer
fully and patriotically obey the COM