Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1882-08-31
A BONANZA FOR TIE SOUTH.
Millions Of Money to Be Made
From Cotton Seed.
The Profits In the Manufacture of Cot
ton Seed Products.

The Profits In the Manufacture OF Cot
ton Seed Products.
Speaking of the new era of pros
perity for the South, Commissioner
Kenner, Of Louisiana, said to-day
II made the prediction five years
ago, and the present state of the bus
iness justifes the prediction, that the
manufacture Of oil and other pro-
ducts from cotton seed would within
twenty-five years bring from one
fourth to one.th;rd to the South OF
what our section then got from the
staple itself"
"And that means how much iu-
crease in your revenue?"
Probably not less than Slo0,000,-
900. The business has entirely
grown up since the war and it is only
within the past ten years that it has
attained any Importance. There are
now sixty.Gve or seventy mills IL
operation or being erected, and the
progress and profits of the manu-
facture are already astonishing
When the chief mill in New Orleans
was established some ten years ago
We paid but from s. to $40 ton
for the seed. Last year we were
obliged to pay from Sl6 to $40 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 60 into the interior, and the diff
ference in the cost Of getting the
seed to market makes the difference
il the price to u.s.
"Why do you think the product
will ever equal in value one.t6ird CT
the cotton crop itself?"
"For every bale Of cotton-40O
pounds-there are 200 pounds Of
seed. The annual cotton crop amounts
to about six million bales, which
would yield, after reserving the nee
essary seed for planting next year,
about two and half million tons Of
cotton seed. This seed, if manufac-
tured into oil, oilcake and other pro-
duce, would yield in value not less
than $75 100000, and probably $780,
0Oo.oOO."
"What are those 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 transportation,
permitting the planters to ship their
seed to the mills, the entire crop will
be utilized, because the profits Of the
manufacture, with the price at not
more than $50 ton delivered at the
mil, will induce the expansion of the
business until the whole crop. will be
used. There will be always a ready
market. All that is now made is
readily sold. There are four pro
ducts of the seed-the oil itself, lint
necessarily left on the seed in the
process Of ginning, the cake and the
residuun left after clarifying the Gil.
The oil is used for table purposes and
for cooking; the oilcake for feedir G |
animals and for fertilizers; the resi-
dnum for soap stock. Out of one
ton of seed we got thirty.six gallons
Of oil and about seven hundred
pounds of cake, besides the lint and
reaiduum. The total value of the
manufactured product Yields very
handsome profit"
Where is your market
"For the oil, Italy and the Medi-
terranean ports; for the cake, Eng
land and Germany. OF course, large
quantities of both are also consumed
in the United States. Good Judges
declare that where cotton seed oil is
we'll made and clarified it is hard to
lell the difference between it and the
best olive oil. Both are vegetable
products, and there can be nothing
purer or more free from injurious ef
fects upon the stomach than is cotton
seed oil. 1 have no doubt that the
time will come when it will be used
with fully as much favor as the salad
oil from Europe. 1t is now used by
thousands who cannot detect the diff
ference between it and olive oil.
lo,k to its manufacture as one OF the
great factors of the future prosperity
of the South.
WORTH REMEMBERINo.-Persol
who have given liens on their crops
Joo, ,ra forh,ddan hy re.