The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-19

fourth story is of frame, built of heavy
timbers throughout, 1t is also two stories
high, and is eighty-6ve feet long and sixty
feet wide. The first floor Of this building
is occupied 10y the engine, the boiler room,
three large sheet iron oil tanks, each with a
capacity of fifteen hundred gallons by the
meal mill, and by net work of elevators
conveyors, shafting and pulleys and belts,
communicating with all the other buildings
On the second floor OF this building much
of the important work is done Here are
first of all, the oil presses, four in number
each having capacity Of turning out
about four hundred pounds of pressed
meal, every time the presses 90 together.
Here also is the rolling machine IN which
the kernal Of the seed, as it comes from
the huller and the shaker, free from all for
eign substances, is pressed or rolled Near
the roller, stand the steam heaters, four in
number in which certain quantities
of the rolled seed are heated
to a certain degree SO that
the oil may run more readily from the seed,
when put under the presses. On the same
floor lisa machine, called the moulding reel
in which the dry meal cakes, as they come
from the presses are broken into bits,
which drop through the floor and into the
meal mill below. In fact although the
buildings are all very large and the rooms
not DISTRACTED with partitions, there is no
room TO spare-machinery occupies every
part of the great rooms. And one fact is
remarkable, and cannot fail to be noticed
by even the casual visitor, 1t is
that, although ponderous machn.
cry moves with terrific rapidty,
and with many tons power in nearly every
part of these buildings the jar occasioned
is but slight, and the noise in.erferes but
little with conversation in a natural tone of
voice This tact is much TO the credit Of
Messrs. Lancaster IL Rice, the contractors
for the buildings, Mr.. J. r. Ery, master
machinist, and Mr.. James Arlington, mill
wright under whose supervision the ma.
chinery was placed in position
A walk through the mills, watching the
crude seed as it passes from the ware
house, where it lays in great pyramids,
reaching nearly from the floor to the ceiling,
into the elevator; thence to the SCREEN
which removes all foreign substances /;
thence to the gins, which remove every par
ticle Of cotton; thence to the huler, which
frees the kernas Of the bulls thence TO the
| shaker, which separates the loose huls and
the clear kernals; thence the huls.
pass. to the furnace, where they are used for
fuel, and the kernaIs pass to the rollers,
which llatten them 80 that they have the
appearance of shayings; from the rollers
the seed goes to the heaters; thence to
the presses, and thence the oil runs into the
tanks, and the cakes 90 to the crusher and
thence into the mill out Of which they
come in the form of meal as fine as flour,
whis is bagged for shipment The cotton
from the gins of which about twenty pounds
is obtained from every ton of seed, drops
down into large bins in the room below
out OF which it is taken, placed in large
cotton press and put up in lules of from
four to five hundred pounds each There is
not particle of waste in the whole process
even the ashes of the balls of the
seed can be, and is in most places,
used in the the manufacture Of soap.
The oil thus produced is a purely vege.
table article and is in great demand for
various purposes. Purified, 1t is odoress
and As clear as crystal In many of the
southern cities it is very extensively used
for culinary purposes with the best salts
faction, In northern cities it is used large.
ly in the adulteraton of butter lard. etc.
1t makes the finest bread and can be used
instead Of lard with great advantage. 1t
can be bought for eighty cents per gallon
one gallon is equal to seven and half
pounds Of lard, and one pound of oil.
which is purely vegetable, costing about
ten cents, will 90 as far as one and quar-
ter pounds Of lard, which is seldom pure
and. always costs from fifteen TO twenty
cents
The meal Is the best article now known
as stock feed aud as a frtilizer. AS feed.
one pound Of cotton seed meal is equal to
ten pounds Of hay or bran, and as a
fertilizer it has no superior. As
both, it is being very generally
used already and it will steadily grow in
favor as it becomes better known.
The mills are under the managompnt M