Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-19
A BONANZA FOR THE SOUTH.
Millions OF Money 90 be Made from
Cotton Seed-The Profits I'm the
Manufacture OF Cotton seed Pro
duets
Neso York Berald

Speaking of the new era of nrosner,tv for
the South, Commissioner Kenner. of LouIsi-
ana, said today: 81 made the prediction
five years ago, and the present state of the
business justides the prediction, that the
manufacture of oil aud other products from
cotton seed would within TWENTY-FIVE wears
bring from one-fourth to one-third to the
staple Itself"
"And that means how much increase in
your revenues ?"
Probably not less than $1O0, ,O0O, 900. The
business has entirely grown up since the
war, and 1t is only within the past ten years
that it has attained any importance. There
are now sixty five or seventy mills in oper-
alton or being erected, and the progress aud
profits OF the manufacture are already as
tonlshing. When the chief mill in New
Orleans was established some ten wears ago.
we paid but from 81 to $40 a ton for the
seed. Last year we were obliged to nav
from SIG. to $19 ton. At first we could
get such supply as we wanted along the
water courses, and the transportation cost
but little. The demand has grown to such
proportions that we must now go into the
interior, and the difference in the cost of
getting the seed to market makes the differ
enee 10 the price to u.s."
"Why do you think the product will ever
itself s'
''For everv bale OF cotton-4OO pounds
there are ], 200 pounds of seed. The annual
cotton crop amounts to about six million
bales, which would yield, after rescrving
the necessary seed for planting next year,
about two and half million tons of cotton
seed. This seed, If manufactured into oil.
oilcake and other produce, would yield in
value not less than $75, ,000, 900, and probably
500, 0,000,0 ,00O."
''What are these products ?''
"All OF this seed before the war, with the
exception OF that used for planting, was
thrown away. We now buy all that we can
get. With increased facilities of transports
ton, permitting the planters to ship Their
SEED to the mills, the entire crop will b6
utilized, because the profits OF the manu-.
facture, with the price at not more than
twenty dollars ton delivered at the mill,
will induce the expansion of the business
until the whole crop will be used. There
will be always q ready market All that
Is now made is readily sold. There
are four products of the seed-the oil
itself, lint necessarily left on the seed
In the process of ginning, the cake and the
residuum left after clarifying the oil. The
Oil is used for table purposes and for cosk-
ing; the oil cake for feeding animals and
Tor 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 resi-
dunn. The total value OF the manufactured
product yield very handsome profit"
"Where is your market?"
'For the oil, Italy aud the Mediterranean
ports; for the cake, England and Germany.
or course, large quantities of both are also |
consumed in the United States. Good Judges
declare that where cotton seed oil Is well
made and clarified it is hard to tell the DIFF
ference between 1t and the best olive oil.
Both are vegetable 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 1t will be used with fully as much favor
as the salad oil from Europe. It is now used
by thousands who cannot detect the differ
ence between it and olive oil. look to its |
manufacture as one Of the great factors of |
the future prosperity of the South"