The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-10-11
Cotton at the Worlds Exposi.
ton.

and its products, in both their
manufactured and manufactured
state, will he but one of the many
features of the Worlds Industrial
Exposition to be held here next
year, this great Southern staple,
from the very fact that it is the most
important product, and the chief
source of wealth Of this section,
must take q leading place among
the articles displayed. The Atlanta
exhibition, while il was called cot
ton exposition, by no means confined
itself to that staple alone, but in
cluded as well all agricultural pro-
ducts, al. manufactured articles,
as we'll as minerals, lumber, and
in fact, everything that is usually
shown in display of this kind; and
our Exposition, being Worlds Fair,
proclaimed and advertised abroad, is
a much more ambitious one than that
given at Atlanta.
In this matter Of cotton, it is to be
hoped that our Worlds Fair will
carry out the idea so u~piciously
conceived AMI begun at Atlanta
to find the cheapest and best mode
of raising, handling and manurac-
turing it. If cotton was king thirty
years ago, it should be hailed as
king to-day, for new uses for it
have beea discovered, new wealth
in it uaearthed. The millions ot
tons of cotton seed, formerly deemed
useless, except as fertilizer, are
now converted into a variety of ar
ticlcs of great commercial vaiue and
Importance. There are, indeed, a
score of products coming from the
cotton plant, and new ones being
discovered every year, so that it is
almost impossible to estimate its
value. Take the last crop, for in
stance, and let us Sc what it has
yielded. and what it could have been
made to yield.
We know that 100000 bales Of
cotton were raised, clothing not onl y
this country but the greater portion
of Europe as well. At the same time
that our cotton fields produced all
this lint, they also produced $500
00Q tons of cotton seed above the
amount needed for next years plant
ing. Ii this seed had been utilized
and manufactured it would have
yielded the following results: 1885,
100000 gallons Of cotton seed oil
or we might almost say olive, for all
the olive oil we use in this country
comes from our cotton plant 300
600 tons Of oil cake or meal and
100000 tons of hulls.
The oil enters into hundred diff
ferent manufactured products, and is
rapidly supcrseding all other oils on
account of It's cheapness and in
trinsic merits. The meal is used as
g. fcrtilizing material or as winter
food for stock. and as for the bulls,
now almost thrown away or used at
best for fuel, they furnish an excel
lent material for paper stock, and
will return, wheI the method OF
manufacturing them has been thor
oughly perfected, some 100000 tons
OF paper. These are few OF the
products of the cotton plant. There
ia, however, much more to hope
from it. 1t has been discovered
that tie stalk of the plant yields an
excellent fibre, and that a rich and
valuable dye can be obtained from its
| roots.
Edward Atkinson, when he first
suggested a cotton exposition, de
clared that he hoped to see the
Southern planter raising cotton aud
sheep together He had a grand
scheme of shecp-raising in the South
Each ton Of cotton seed would feed
five sheep, he declared, during the
six mouths of winter, while the grass
would give them food for the sum
mer. This would enable the cotton
States to care for 100000 or more
sheep annually on the mere waste o
their cotton farms, while these sheer
folded upon the fields would so fer
tilize the Soil as to dJuble the croI
of cotton.
Is not this single product one
which alone should make oul
Worlds Exposition great SUGGEST
And fortunately magnificent cot
ton exhibit is assured us. The mat
ter has been placed IN the hands of 6
committee of the Cotton ENchang,
who will Sec that the great South
ern staple is properly represented
In the act of the Arkansas Legis-
lature. making an appropriation fol
the Worlds Fair, it is provided that
the State exhibit shall be princi-
pally devoted to displaying Arkan-
sas' possibilities as cotton producer
and the Governor is ordered, III
making selections for the commits
sioners to represent the State, tC
choose in preference, persons prac-
tically engaged in cotton planting
The cotton feature of the EXPOSE
ton, therefore, may be considered as
assured, and there is certainly every
reason for hoping that it may results
in great and practical benefits to the
entire South.-N. O. TimeS-Demo-
crat.