The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-03-04

We prefer Il home market; and then we
believe we do good thing in subsh-
tuting this perfectly clean, pure yege
table oil for lard III the kitchens of our
homes AS for the demand | tell you
that if every ton of cotton seed in the
South was pressed next year, | could
sell the entire oil output before the
10th of November. | could actually
have it sold before it was made"
An ENORMOUS wAsTAGE.
Now let me show You what wastage
there is The cotton crop of last year
produced over 5000, 900 5,ns of seed -
1t averaging about half Don of seed to
every bale of cotton. Il this amount
only 100000 tons, or y nut one.six
teenth, was worked up. 9th the other
100000 there was burr qpud wasted
9o,C00,000 gallons OF oni worth in its
crude state 40 cents $50 100000, or in
its refined state (65 cents S62, 100000.
l speak advisedly when say wasted,
for it was literally wasted. The vast
amount OF seed not put through the
mills was used for feed for stock or fer.
tilizers. But it is demonstrable that
the seed is better for either food or
fertilizers after the oil has been taken
ont than before. The oil makes it too
rich for food and retards its decompo-
sition and assimilation ms u fertilizer.
A ton of the meal, the bulk left after
the oil is taken ont, is worth SIS, or
nearly twice as much as ton of seed.
Indeed, Mr.. Boston tells me he ex.
changes ON his farm two tons Of 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 $25
a ton for ferlilizing uses. If the whole
crop of cotton seed was worked through
the oil.mills, therefore, it would add
over $60,000,000 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, it 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.. II. /. Kimball is going to es-
tablish refinery in Atlanta, and that
the former owner of Catoosa Springs
vii! establish one in Dalton. No legit-
innate enterprise in the South need
ever lack for capital again. Another
difficulty, and quite a serious one, is
that the mills cannot buy enough seed
to keep them busy the year through
Tho 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 10 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 al
present, and their capacity will be
practically doubled.
A STEP STILL FURTHER FORWARD.
Now we have seen how, in the past
few years, we have taken from ton OF
cotton seed thirty-fiye gallons of oil
! hitherto wasted, worth first SO and
then 10 cents gallon; and we have
seen under this process the cash value
OF ton of cotton seed rise from So tc
sl2. We have seen further a system Of
refining established by which this crude
oil, selling at 40 cents gallon, has beer
made worth Go cents and 81 gallon
but we should not stop even here. The
american Grocer shows that salad OF
and olive oil is selling in New Yorl
from $3.50 to a a gallon. There is moi
the slightest doubt that this is our cot
ton seed oil refined up to the highss
point and sold in fancy bottles at fancy
prices. Analysis shows this, the OK
ports and imports show it, and Ameri
cans who have been TO Europe aud Eu
ropeans who come here affirm it. In
decd, since the excellent qualities o
the cotton seed oil have been demon
strated it is not denied hy those wh'
sell it that the finer salad oils owe thoi
origin TO this humble and despise,
seed. Now the man who sells this oil
nj 81 gallon gets more for the oil thai
the lint from the same seed gives thu
iurmer; for, allowing 20 per cent. 70
loss in refining, the oil would be WORT
SIP per ton, while two bales OF cotton
which came from the same ton Of sect
would not bring over 500. 1.-THE refine
in Marseilles or Antwerp can afford 4
send over here for his crude oil, pay it
way across the ocean twtse and its dut.
at New York, and still get rich on il
how much better could he do by estah
fishing his refinery in the Southern
States And this is what it will com
TO. Had the cotton seed been grown il
New England every village would no'
have its refinery, aud would have re
established in the making of "pur
I olive oil {" a cute industry that died wit
the decadence Of wooden nutmegs an
languished when the demand for far
, mel sausage was diminished. There
not in tho whole range OF nature u moE
peIfee. economy than is furnished
the handling OF cotton aeed. II come
to the mills bursting with sn oil, III
quality OF which is incompatible an
the demand for which is exhaustles
[ The bulk OF the seed becomes moi
valuable as an article OF commerce an
: more useful for its material purpo,
; altor this wealth Of oil has been prease
Z ont. In it's halls Il furnishes tho fu
Tor the machinery used 10 crush n
! balsua from It's body carries even int
4 its ashes all the valuable properties
It's bulls. Considering these things, an
7 the contempt in which this preeiol
seed has been held, isn't there tinl