The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-01-25
Cotton Seed Oil Mills.
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COLUMBIA, January ! L. In your issue
Of November II noticed communca.
,;on FROM correspondent in Orange.
burg, :. G., relative 10 cotton seed oil
mills. In it number Of questions were
soEe detail. concerning the manufacture
the foot Of his communication, offer your
columns for information on the subject
will enlcavor to give all the information
desired, promising it with the remark
that am II manufacturer of oil mills Of
the kind described, and have them in
actual Use to day, in spite Of the great
efforts to maintain its manufacture Sc
cret by large oil mills.
An oil mill, suitable for public gin
house. would consist Of one heavy hy-
draulic press, Tor two Of them, according
as you would desire, to work up two tons
of seed per day of twelve hours, or four
tons the force pump necessary to run
the presses, one huller, one pair Of rolls
to crush the seed into meal. after being
hulled, instead Of grinding it, las burrs
would gum,) one jackcted steamer TO
cook the meal in after it is crushed
The seed are put through; the liulleT,
which has SCI aTating attachment 10
clean the kernel, then the meal or kernel
is put through the crushing rolls and
then into the steamer. The meal is
cooked at times varying from % to 80
minutes, with the steam in the steamer
at pressure of 20 to 35 pounds. The
meal is then put into bags of somewhat
unusual shape, this in turn is mt into a
"mat" or book" to confine the meal
and keep it from bursting the bags when
under pressure; the whole is then put
under lie hydraulic press and given a
heavy pressure. The oil then appears
crude OIL The meal, after the oil is
expressed, is in the form of Il cake and is
"c";.a:i seed oil cake" This is all there
is in it,
In ton Of seed there are about 36
gallons of oil, somewhat less in the
spring when seed have dried out consil-
erab!y. About 100 pounds of meal to
the ton is usually obtained, including
the oil, or before pressing The balance,
say 900 pounds, is hulls. Both the meal
and the hulls are magnificent fertilizer,
as the oil is detrimental to the extent
that it prevents whole seed from rotting
for SO long, and the meal has more than
twice the body of corn for feed after the
oi! ID taken from it..
Crude oil is worth at the mil from 45c.
to 4sc. per gallon, with a constant up.
ward tendency, nA new uses are being
found for tho oil and the producers sell
it to the refincries, number of which
are in the country and are glad to buy of
any one.
The cake is worth $27 to $50 per ton.
I know a prominent fertilizer manufac
turcr who now regularly uses cotton seed
meal in his product and it has splendid
reputation.
In reference to horse power necessary
to run it, | have one running now by a
is horse engine, which runs in addition,
ut the same time, one so, one 40 saw gin
cotton press and corn mill. With all
these it can run the lIullcr Pump and
Crushers. They can be arranged TO run
by man aud boy, assuming the owner
has an engineer.
have eEdearorcd to answer, in brief,
the questions your correspondents asks,
and the information, lii connection with
what | will give regarding the cost, about
covers tie whole thing: a . ton mill
will cost 81 500, on board cars at factory :
and 1 ton mill $4,000.
There is no mystery about making cot
ton seed oil (; it is very easily learned,
and stand ready to back my assertion
with substance that with the above mill
rs much oil can be gotten from ton OF
seed. aud gotten as quickly as with the
large mills. and the proportion of ma.
chinery considered, the product of the
mill will be just as much as the large
| ones.
1t is only question Of q very short
time when there will be these small mills
MI over the country and they will ge,
the neighborhood seed, and then where
will the large $4,000 to 100000 mills
be-? Men now spend 81 600 or more fo,
an engine, gin, press, &c, and get 80 a
bale. BY investing 1000 more they can
get about 50 bale that is, get tha.
much from the sced-cil and meal
ofa bale
J. w. CALDWELL & Co,
Richmond, Va.