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Excerpt from The Value of Cotton-Seed Products in the Feeding of Farm Animals: As a Human Food and as a Fertilizer, With Some General Notes on the Cotton-Seed Manufacturing Industry Hat a royal plant it is! The world waits in attendance on its V V growth. The showers that fall whispering on its leaves are heard around the earth. The sun. That shines upon it is tempered by the prayers of all the people. 'the frosts that chill it and the dews that descend from the stars are noted, and the trespass of a little worm upon its green leaf means more to England and to English homes than the advance of a Rus sian army upon her Asian frontier. It is gold from the time it puts forth its tiniest shoot. Its foliage decks the sombre earth in emerald sheen. Its blossoms reflect the brilliant hues of sunset skies in Southern climes and put to shame the loveliest rose; and when loosing its snowy fleeces to the sun, it floats a banner that glorifies the field of the humble farmer, that man is marshalled under a flag that will compel the allegiance of the world and wring a tribute from every nation on the earth. Its Fibre is current in every bank in the world. Its Oil adds luxury to lordly banquets in noble halls and brings comfort to lowly homes in every clime. Its Flour gives to man a food richer in health-producing value than any the earth has ever known, and a curative agent long sought and found in nothing else. Its Meal is food for every beast that bows to do man's labor, from Norway's frozen peaks to Afric's parched plains. It is a heritage that God gave to this people when He arched the skies, 'stablished our mountains, girded us about with oceans, loosed the breeze, tempered the sunshine and measured the rain. Ours and our children's for ever and forever, and no princelier talent ever came from His Omnipotent hand to mortal stewardship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.