This use of meal on a range ranch was in its way also a novelty.

Afterwards it became general and prices of cotton-seed and cotton-seed meal doubled and more.
When a very large number of range cattle, say 2000 or so, required feeding on account of poverty, hay in our country not being obtainable, cotton-seed (whole) would be fed to them by the simple and effective method of loading a large wagon with it, driving it over the pasture, and scattering thinly, not dumping, the seed on to the grass sod.

The cattle would soon get so fond of it that they would come running as soon as the wagon appeared and follow it up in a long string, the strongest and greediest closest to the wagon, the poor emaciated, poverty-stricken ones tailing off in the rear.

But not one single seed was wasted, everyone being gleaned and picked up in a very short time.

It is the best, easiest and most effective way: indeed, the only possible way with such a large number of claimants.