The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-04

The present price is but slightly
above the average of last year. With
a shorter supply and promising trade
in goods, which is now indicated by
mill takers on both sides the Atlantic,
it is to be hoped that our great south
ern staple will bring such rates as will
in a measure compensate for the en-
HANGED cost Of production, which is
estimated at 20 per cent above the
outlay Of last year, through the rise in
provisions and wages, the increased
use of fertilizers, etc.
Every 100 pounds of lint cotton goes
to the gin with 80 pounds of seed cot
ton entangled with it. The process of
ginning is simply that of freeing the
cotton from its seed. 1t is one of the
most expensive parts of the preparation
Of the staple for market, and until a
few years ago the cotton seed were
looked upon as a worthless and useless
incumbrance, like the stalks of hemp
and fax after the fibre has been Sc
cured To a certain extent the seed
have been used for manure, being rich
in ammonia, phosphate of lime and pot
ash. They were known to be very rich
in oil, and many futile attempts had
been made to express, purify and give
it commercial value. Since 1865, how
ever, the value of the cotton
seed is ascertainable, and it
is an appreciable and steadily
augmenting addition to the value of
the cotton crop. Though a large per-
centage of the seed Is still wasted, it
Is known that the seed Will already
much more than recoup to the planters
the cost of ginning. 1t is fully expect
ed by the most Observant southern
agriculturists that the seed will eventu-
ally pay the cost not only of ginning
but of fertIlizing the crop, and anchor
ating the soil be restoring to it more of
the elements of production than have
been taken away by culture. In the
event of these expectations being real
lied, cotton will be the most profitable
crop which can be grown, even at five
cents per pound The root and bark Of
the plant, 1t has recently been ascer-
tanned, can be prepared for fodder
for stock, and the fibre for paper
manufacture. Cotton seed, ground
in mills, yield cake, hull and oil. The
hulls abound in phosphate and potash.
They can be made the basis of a fertil-
izing compost, capable of renewing the
soil, and fertility of old fields. They
make good food for stock, good fuel,
and their ashes, properly leached, can
be boiled with the oil into excellent
soap. The cake of the kernels from
which the oil is expressed makes food
for cattle, and it is proposed to utilize
it for man also. Cotton seed oil ia
very extensively used. Three-fourths
of the so-called olive oil of our tables
Is simply purified and clarified cot
ton-sced oil A butter can be
made Of it, which is at least as good as
oleOmargarine; and it Yields blue dye
stuff which is coming into use. Cattle
fed on cotton-seed meal, made from
ground cake. thrive, fatten and are the
best of stall-fed cattle Ms manure pro-
ducers. 1t is the best possible feed
for wool sheep also. Careful observers,
with these facts before them, confirmed
by results obtained at Atlanta, are con-
vinced that, with anything like eco
nomical husbandry, the cotton plant
viii yield values quite double those
now realized from the sale of lint alone.
THE LOCAL COTTON MARKET.
The market was active and firm,
with no change from yesterdays quo
tations Futures were up s or 10
points from yesterdays closing. We
uuptp.