The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-08-31
A BONANZA FOR THE SOUTH.
Millions of Money to be Made from Cotton
Seed.

| Speaking Of the new era of prosperity
for the South, Commissioner kenner, OF
Louisiana, said to-day: 81 made the pre-
uiction five years ago, and the present
state of the business justifies the predic.
ton, that the manufacture of oil and
other products from cotton seed would
within twenty five years bring from one.
fourth to one.third to the South of what
our section then got from the staple it.
self"
"And that means how much increase
In your revcnues?"
Probably not less than 100000, 900.
The business has entirely grown up since
the war, and it is only within the mast
ten years that it has attained any i.nnc:-
tance. There are now sixty.fve or sew
cnty mills in operation or being erected,
and the progress and profits of the mar !.
niacture are already astonishing. When
the chief mill in New Orleans was estab
lished some ten years ago we paid but
from 81 TO so ton for the seed. Last
year we were obliged to pay from Sic to
Sl5 a ton. At first we could get such
supply rs We wanted along tho water
courses, and the transportation cost but
little. The demand has grown to such
proportions that we must now 70 into the
interior, aud the difference in the cost Of
getting the seed to market makes the
difference in the price to u.s."
why do you think tho product will
ever equal in value one third of the cot.
ton crop itselfY"
For every bale of cotton-4OO pounds
there are l,200 pounds of seed. The
annual cotton crop amounts to about six
million bales, which would yield, after
ressrying the necessary seed for planting
next year, about two and half million
tons OF cotton seed. This pe1d, If manu-.
featured into oil, oilcake and other pro.
duce, would yield in value not less than
$4,000 900, and probably 800, 900 OOO."
Wha: are these products 2"
"Al! of this seed before the war, with
tho exception of that used for planting,
was thrown away. We now buy all that
we can get. With increased facilities of
transportation, permitting tho planters
TO ship their seed to the mills, the entire
crop will be utilized, because the profits
OF the manufacture, with the price ut not
more than $50 ton delivered at the mill,
will induce the expansion of the bust.
ness until the whole crop will be used.
There will be always ready market.
All that is now made is readily sold.
There are four products of the seed-thc
oil itself, lint necessary left on the seed
IN the process Of ginning. the cake and
the residuum left after clarifying tho oil.
The oil is used for table purposes and for
cooking; the oil cake for feeding animals
and for fertilizers; the residuum for soap
stock. Out of one ton of seed we get
thirty-six gallons Of oil and about seven
hundred pounds OF cake, besides the lint
and residuum. The total value of the
manufactured nH product yields very
Where is your market?"
For the oil, Italy and the Mediterra.
mean ports; for the cake, England and
Germany. OF course, large quantities Of
both are also consumed in the United
States. Good judges declare that where
cotton seed oil is we'll made and clarified
1t is hard TO tell the difference between it
and the best olive oil. Both are yepeta.
Bile products, and there can be nothing
purer or more free from injurious effects
upon the stomach than is cotton seed oil.
l have no doubt that the time will come
when it will be used with fully as much
favor rs tho salad oil from Europe. Itis
now used by thousands who cannot de-
tect the difference between it aud olive
oil. / lcok to its manufacture az one of
the great factors OF the future prosperity
of the South. ."-Ne,v York Herald.