The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-02-15
ALEXANDRIA, La WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 15 1877

is almost as extravagant as it would be
TO use -four as a manure. That is an
excellent manure, and handful
thrown into hill of corn would have
the best results, but it certainly would
not be thought economical. Let MS
see--a ton of cotton seed will yield
thirty five gallons Of cotton seed oil
and seven hundred pounds of Oil cake,
the former readily worth tifty-fve
cents IL gallon in its crude state, and
the latter $40, a ton. The value of the.
ton of seed then. is oil SlS,25, Oil cake
$500, total s33,25 and there remains
also one thousand pounds of hulls,
which, contain almost all the mineral
parts of the seed, and consequently the
most valuable part of it as manure.
The planter, then may be said, by
hulling his seed, to have got the hulls
for manure, all as we shall show he
had before, and 1885, in addition, an
amount equal in value to ton of
wheat at 81, bushel. !. a..
The above estimate does not take
into account the expense ofconverting
the hulled seed into oil and oil cake.
bnt is only given to show. what value
is in the seed. A. 5ae
Enough has been said to show that
the vinlue ofcotton seed is too great
to permit it to be used MS manure, and
we now PROFOUND the theory, that by
hulling his, seeds the planter will
have in his hulls all the most valuable
part Of his seed rs manure, and in the
kernel, whether he use it for stock
feed or sell it for oil material, a crop
scarcely less valuable than corn. First
we say that the hull, Or .hnsk of the
seed contains all the mineral part OF
the seed, which is the part especially
valuable as manure. A reference to
the analyses made of the ash of cot
ton seed bulls, and of cotton seed oil
cake will show this. Each case was
that of one hundred parts of the ash in
one case of the hull alone, in the othal
of the seed, hull and all after the OF
had been passed out
The kernel of cotton seed is as valua.
BILE for manure as any other strongly
/ heterogeneous vegetable food, but no
more SO while the oil being a hydrocar
bon is worth no more, than so mucl
pine straw.
i In reference to the valne Of cottoI
seed oil, the, Review remarks:
Cotton seed oil, which we have
spoken of rs has lately begnn To at
/ tract great attention as the multiple
city of uses to which it can be applied
is discovered. 1t can in fact he nsci
! tor almost all the purposes which otlieI
! oils can be, and mans for which the,
cannnt be. GU -i.ths of all Il e olive
oil consumed in This ca,lntry is cotton
seed oil, either eXp"ifed in barrels t.
1 NitI SCItI' y w bVtWl'i III pptliNS WI NliIb
ply bottled and labelled brre. Per
llaps if there WAS no deception it won'f
sell ms well, for olive oil fol years has
been adnltcrated shamelrssly will
lard oil, and cotton seed oil is sweet.
In u hundred pounds of seed cotton
about One-third of the weight is lint
one third kernel. aud one third seet
bulls. The. writer sta'rs:. a.,s.s
A bushcl of cotton seed weighs abou,
shirty-,h'ee pounds. The hull and tn,
kernel each make half of the st ed, tina
is. fifty per cent of the seed is kernel
and fifty per cent hull. A ton of un
huiled seed yields about thrifty -fv,
gallons of crude cotton seed oil ant
seven hu dred pounds of oil cake
There is very general impression
among planters that the time is not fa
L. distant when every plantation will l,av
it own portable oil mill, just as no,
they have their own cotton gin ar
corn shelter. But, unless there is son,
marked Improvement made in oil ma
i chinery, this will he fonnd to he mis-
!, take. Cotton seed requires hydrauii
! pressure in ors'er to get ont all the oi
E or even the greater part of it: tt
q cheapest hydraulic press which "
know of costs completed ready atari
!, $1,000, and oi! men tell us that III e,
p pcnse of working one press is the sa,,
rs four. No mill can be worked to ~
- vantage, they tell us,e,by no one Il,
r. has not a capital of at least $1,000
~ and S50,O00 will be found much bett,
y sa FOOD FOR STOCK. Ha~
lie On this subject the writer has so,
Of Interesting statements which colt
at planters wilt do well to rcmeml,
ht He says:
Is We come now to the last use
Is hulled cottSp seed in case the plan
~ does not wish to sell it for oil maieri
'i' This is us fnod for stock. OF it's VIA
~ with the old still in its kernal we j.;
'st but few data. During the war, wi
as feed was scarce, it WAS ftdto cows /;
u pigs with the hulls on, and repea
attempts have since been made nus