The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-17
The Royal Seed.

The Royal Seed.
This regal term is fittingly APP
pied to the,seed of the great South-
thern staple by our excellent con-
temporary the Montgomery Adver-
tser. Cotton is king, and the seed
are royal. And no product of South.
ern soil has doomed into such inn
portanoe, within the last few years,
as the seed Of our cotton. This
fact is now seen and recognized in
the North as we'll AS in the South
Only u little while ago the sole nses
shat were found for the royal seed
were those which the planter was
afforded by his own narrow sur-
roundings They were as few as
they were simple. The seed served
as food for cows and hogs when
boiled or steamed; and when rotted,
they did good service on poor spots
in the fields They were considered
the readiest and surest fertilizer for
both corn and cotton that could be
had. Now the demand for them
by the oil mills is so great that they
are scarcely used at all as food for
stock or manure for lands. The oil
they afford makes no me can exhi bit
in the commerce of the world. The
demand exceeds the supply for the
oil is no longer confined to lubrica~
ting purposes. 1t is brought into
such "A state Of purity by refining
processes that it is now extensively
used as a substitute for olive
oil. 1t IS used even as a substitute
for lard in cooking. Not only is
there such great and growing de
mand for the oil itself. but the resi-
due, after the oil is extracted, finds
IA demand equally as great, being
used as food for stock, as we'll as IN
preparation for the growing OF
plants and vines.
The Advertiser says the fertilizer
factory now being erected in Mont
gomery will use largely cotton and
meal in their preparations. Besides
ali this, and more, it is said the
meal is now a very popular adu
terant in mustard preparations,
| is true that every part and par
tiCle Of the seed is utilized in one
form or another from the lint in
the hull to the oil in the kernel.
And yet it would seem the discov-
cry of other causes are still being
made; the limit OF the already wide
spread utility may not yet be
reached. The latest use, Or rather
the one which has created the latest
sensation this side the Atlantic, is
the manufacture Of ''ultramarine, a
blue pigment Of great beauty" 1t
is used by painters, and once, it is
said, it sold for it's weight in gold.
1t was made by grinding TO powder
precious stone known as lapis
lazuli, and although other sources
from which the pigment can be
manufactured have been discovered
ard utilized during the last few
years, yet it has continued very ex
pensivo The fact that it can BE-
anutactured from cotton seed is
made known by the Hon. Ash be-
Smith, of Texas He says:
at occurs from frequent para
graphs to the newspapers in our
State, that the manufacturing oil
cotton seed oil is already assuming
important development in Texas
was president of the section o.
the jury ~, at the Paris Exposition
Of 1878, to which seetion was reter-
red the examination for award OF
cotton seed oil and other vegetable
oils. M. Godillot, Of Marseilles. one
of the largest oil merchants in the
world, and a correspondent, and
believe partner of the A mcricar
house of Turber & Co, of New York
informed me that he Attained IRON
cotton seed ultramarine blue of per
feet purity-bieu d'outremer-in
commercial quantities, and at q
comparatively small cost 1t is I
color OF great cost and large use
He says to me that this manufacture
was Il secret known only to hi:
French manufacturers; that Amer.
leans do not know how to manufac
ture it. | replied then we mus
import Frcnchmen who will mann.
tacture it in America and our PEG.
pie will soon to do it, "
The New Dreams Picayure say'
Col. Smith is 3 man of wide infor
nation, accurate scientific attain.
ments, and thoroughly reliable il
his statements, and what he sayI
develops an important fact in III,
remarkable and varied values o
cotton seed. 1t seems to be it'll,
short of IA gold mine Surely tn,
seed of King Cotton is a RICH
royal product.
The Demand tor labor.