San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-02

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that they could put one pumpkin against
another. However, it is being intro,
duced more rapidly than we haa dareo
III YOU can sell all You refine, l
asked MIR. Boston the other day, 10
Europe. why do You labor to create u
demand in American"
"Simply because if we open new
market we make Larger demand ana
better prices. We have just shipped
l 900 barrels from the Montgomery re-
finery at Go cents a gallon. AT 10 Genus
a pound for cotton butter every gallon
of oil will yield 81. For many reasons
we prefer a home market; and then we
believe we do q good thing in suDstl-
tuting this perfectly clean, pure veee.
table oil for lard in the kitchens OF our
homes. AS for the demand, L tell you
that if every ton of cotton SEED III tns
South was pressed next year, couiu
sell the entire oil output before tne
18th of November. l could actually
have it sold before it was made.
AN ENORMOUS wAsTAGE.
Now Let me show you what q wastage
there is. The cotton crop OF last year
produced over 100000 tons OF seed
it averaging about half ton OF SEED 10
every bale of cotton. OF this amount
only 10000 tons, or about one-slx'
teenth, was worked up. With the other
9, 800 1000 there was buried and wasted
98, 100000 gallons of oil, worth IN lts
crude state (4O cents) $39, zoo, 600, or IN
its refined state (65 cents) $62,7O0,OoO.
I speak advisedly when l say wasted,
for it was literally wasted. Inc Vast
amount of seed not put through the
mills was used for feed for stock or fer
tilizers. But it is demonstrate that
the seed is better for either food or
fertilizers after the oil has been taken
out than before. The oil makes 1t too
rich for food and retards its decompo-
sition and assimilation as fertilizer
A ton of the meal, the bulk left after
the oil is taken out, is worth $40, or
nearly twice as much as 81 ton OF seed.
Indeed, Mr.. Boston tells me he ex.
changes on his farm two tons oil SEED
for one ton Of meal. The hull OF the
seed is used for fuel at the mills, and
the ashes from these hulls is worth $50
a ton for fertilizing uses. If the whole
crop of cotton seed was worked through
the oil-mills, therefore, it would add
over $6O,OOO,OOO to the cotton crop and
not deprive the land OF one pound OF
fertilizer or the cattle and sheep OF one
pound of food. Indeed, 1t would only
assist the land and the stock in digest
ing the food and make it more agreea-
BILE to them, and yet we work up only
one-sixteenth of the seed. One diff
Guilty, of course, is the lack of capital
with which to build mills. This is be-
ing rapidly eliminated. Each year
sees new mills added, and the future
will show even brisker growth. hear
that Mr.. H. I. Kimball is going to es-
tablish refinery in Atlanta, and that
the former owner of Catoosa Springs
will establish one in Dalton. No legit-
innate enterprise in the South need
ever lack for capital again. Another
difficulty, and quite serious one, is
that the mills OF buy enough seed
to keep them bnsy the year through.
The farmers, having been accustomed
for years to throw their seed back on
the ground or waste it altogether, still
pursue that plan OF course mills es-
tablished in new localities will be sup
Piled 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 all the seed they want.
Then they will run twelve months in
the year instead of six months, as at
present, and their capacity will be
practically doubled.
STEP STILL FURTHER FORWARD.
Now we have seen how, in the past
few wears, we have taken from ton of
cotton seed thirty-tive gallons of oil
hitherto wasted, worth first 80 and
then 40 cents a gallon; and we have
seen under this process the cash value
of q ton of cotton seed rise from Sc to
SO. We have seen further system of
refining established bvwhich this crude
oil, selling at 40 cents gallon, has been
made worth IS cents and 81 gallon ;
but we should not stop even here. The
american Grocer shows that salad oil
and olive oil is selling in New York
from $3.50 to 81 a gallon. There is not
the slightest doubt that this is our cot
ton seed oil refined up to the highest
point and sold in fancy bottles at fancy
prices. Analysis shows this, the ex-
ports and imports show it, and Ameri-
cans who have been to Europe and Eu-
ropeans who come here affirm it. In
deed, since the excellent qualities Of
the cotton seed oil have been demon
strated it is not denied by those who
sell IL that the finer salad oils owe their
origin to this humble and despised
seed. Now the man who sells this oil
at 81 a gallon gets more for the oil than
the lint from the same seed gives the