The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-08
Editor FARMER ASp MECHANIC
Co++on Seed Oil Mill.

nr,R Stg-I think | can answer III
a few words, the questions
Subscriber" in your last issue
tn. total cost of the machinery uSeo
in extracting oil. from cotton SEED
about as follows s-ooo
Rollers for crushing 49, OlN
Hydraulic Presses $4,000
$4,000
\ cheap building and a ten horse
,owar engine are also necessary. Such
machinery can use ten thousand pouhus
IF seed Der day. yielding one hundred
and sixty gallons of oil, and three
thousand and FIVE hundred pounds Of
cake. This oil will be worth about
sixtv-four dollars, and the cake forty
three dollars. Part of the expenses
can be saved by making soap OF the
residunm of the oil-presses and convert
ing the hulls into ashes for a fertilizer.
These are valuable as manure, manly
for the potash and phosphorlc acld,
which they contain. The dry hulls
having
Potash. So PR e.
~Phosphoric Ac:d. '6o
1.-The kernels" in addition to pc ash
and phosphoric acid, contain from 4 to
6 or. ct. of ammonia. The cake. freed
from oil. containing from 5 to 10 pr. Ct.
The latter is therefore more nearly a
complete manure than the hulIs alone.
Yours sincerely,
ALBERT K. LEEOuX.
State Experiment Station.
CHAPEL HILL, y. c., May lst, 20.
CRAPS We hate to take 1t on
hearsay. but Messrs. c. W. Westbrook,
and l.. ID, Killett, of Wilson, have
been feeding Bro. Woodland, of the
Adrance, with strawberries weighing
haitian ounce each.
The Weldon Neus tells about Col.
J. 3. Zollicoffer's fine orchard of wen
ty thousand trees. all in their prime
and beautiful as a boquet. Peaches
will be short, but apples will do nicely.
The Goldsboro Messenger says
THE first shipment of strawberries,
one 45-quart crate, from this section.
was made by our townsman, DIR. j. +.
Miller, on Saturday. They were for
warded by Express to a fruit house in
New York, and looked most delicious,
Another crate was shipped by Mr.. Rich.
NJ. Johnson. Others of our truckers
are preparing to ship this week yet. -
From Tuesday night, April Doth, to
Friday night, May 2nd, the W. & w.
Railroad shipped from this place 2,225
boxes of early peas, and also 81 boxes
received from points on the Atlantic
road, making a total Of 1896 box, S
shipped by that road during the three
days mentioned. In addition to this.
we learn that about l.2OO boxes were
by the Norfolk steamers from
Newbern to Norfolk. This gives the
reader some idea Of the extent Of the
trucking business in this section Of the
Only SO boxes Of peas were
by Express from this section
since our last Issue. OF which DO went to
New York. Is to Philadelphia an, ~ to
Washington.
THE Pa CKOP.-This has been a
busy week with our truck farmers. On
Monday morning they commenced pick
ing peas, and during the week about
two thousand boxes nave been shipped
to Baltimore and New York, where, we
they have been sold at from 81. %
to 81. 80 per box. Next week will be
the big week, however. and should
out four or five thousand boxes
This Is becoming an important industry.
and gives employment to a large num-
Der of laborers. 1t is estimated that
thousand dollars will be paid to the
who pick the crop. and nearly
as much for boxes, and other laber ne
to move it. Newbern peas
command full prices. and this
year are bringing nearly twice the price
Of Charleston peas. The Irish potato
crop Is looking very fine. One of u
truckers, Mr.. }. l.. Rhem, has thirty
acres In potatoes. and expects TO I
over n thousand barrels.-Neu-
TREMENDOUS SHIPMENTS OF TORAC- |
'O.-The railroads are a%nticipatino
the next few DAYS the largest
of tobacco they have ever