The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-01-12

mills, was used Tor iced for stock or fer
tilizers. But il is demonstrable that Tho
seed is better for either food or fertili
za,s after the oil has been taken out tha,
before. The oil makes il too rich fo
food, and retards its decomposition ant
assimilation rs a fertilizer. a ton of tn,
meal, the bulk left after the oil is taker
out, is worth $18 ton, or nearly twice
as much ae q ton of seed. Indeed, Mr.
Boston tells me that he exchanges or
his farm. two tons Of seed for one ton oil
meal. The hull Of the seed is used a.
fuel at the mills, and the ashes from
these hulls is worth S25 ton, for fertil
izing uses.
If the whole crop of cotton seed wa.
worked through the oil mills, therefore
it would add over $GO,O0O0OO to the
value of the cotton crop, and rot deprive
the land of one pound of fertilizer, OF
the cattle and sheep of one pound OF
iced. Indeed, it would only assist the
land and the stock in digesting the food
and make it moro agreeable to them
And yet we work up only one sixteenth
Of the seed
One difficulty. of course, is the lack of
capital with which to build mills. This
Is being rapidly eliminated. Each wear
sees new mills added, and the future will
show even brisker growth. | hear that
Mr. II. |. Kimball is going to establish
refinery in Atlanta, and thet the for
mer owner Of Catoosa springs will estab.
lish one in Dalton. No legitimate en-.
terprise in the South need over lack for
capital again. Another difficulty, and
quite serious one, is that the mills can i.
not buy enough seed to keep them busy
the year through. The farmers having
been accustomed for years to throw their
seed back on the ground or TO waste it
altogether, still pursue that plan. OF
course, mills established in new localities
will be supplied from new territory.
Even old mills find it easier to buy seed
every year. The rise in the price tempts
new farmers to sell, and in a short time
the mills will get ell the seed they want.
Then they will run twelve months in
the year instead of six months az at
present, and their capacity will be prac-
tically doubled.
STEP STILL FURTHER FORWARD.
Now, we have seen how, in the past
few years, we have taken from ton Of
cotton seed 35 gallons of oil, hitherto
wasted, worth first 80 and 40 cents n GAL
ton; and we have seen under this process
the cash value of n ton of cotton seed rise
from Sc to Sl2 We have seen further. n
system of refining established by which
this crude oil, selling at 40 cents gal.
Ion, has been made worth 65 cents 10 FL
n gallon. But we should not stop even
here.
The American Grocer shows that
salad oil and olive Ill is selling in New
York from $3.50 to 81 n gallon. There
is not tho slightest doubt that this is our
cotton seed oil, refined up to the highest
point and sold in fancy bottles Mt fancy
prices. Analysis shows this-the exports
and imports show it-and Americans
who have been to Europe and Europeans
who come here affirm it. Indeed, since
the excellent qualities Of the cotton seed
oil have been demonstrated, it is not
denied by those who sell it that the finer
sad oils owe their origin to this humble
aAu despised seed
Now, the man who sells this oil at 81
q gallon gets more for the oil than the
lint from the same seed gives the farmer
for allowing 20 per cent for loss in re.
fining) the oil would be worth $l12 per
ton, while two bales of cotton which
came from the same ton OF eoed would
not bring over 800.
If the re6ner in Marselles or Antwerp
can afford to send over here for his crude
oil, pay its way across the ocean twice
and its duty at New York and still get
rich on it, how much better could he do
by establishing his refinery in the South
err States. And this is what i will
come 10. Had the cotton seed been grown
in New England, every village would
now have its refinery, and would have
re.established in the making of "pure
olive oil" 8 cute industry TINT died with
the decadence Of wooden nutmegs, and
!angiiisi.cd whun tho demand for flannel
sausage was dismissed. There is not in
the whole range Of nature, more per-
feet economy than is furnished in the
handling Of cotton seed. It comes to the
mill bursting with an oil the quality of
which is Incompatible and the demand
for which is exhaustless. The bulk of
the seed becomes more valuable rs an
article of commerce and more useful for
its material purpose after this wealth of
oil has been pressed out In its hulls it
furnishes the fuel for tho machinery
used TO crush the balsam from its body
carries even into it's ashes all the valua-
BILE properties of its hulls. Considering
these things, and the contempt in which
this precious seed has been held, isn't
there tinge of romance'in its develop
ment, its beneficicnt adjustments and its
perfect yindicntion. ii. WIG.