Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-29
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that, as lands are cleared and cultivation
is extended, the amount of our annual
cotton crop will be greatly increased.
True, the raising of produce at home for
domestic consumption is also increasing,
and will increase more as new lands are
opened for cultivation, but indications
thus far suggest that this extension of the
kind of crops raised will not decrease,
but increase the supply of cotton. The
reason is that as the raising of home
crops relieves the cotton-grower from
debt, he is able to employ more labor and
buy better farming implements, and so
produce larger crops. Varying the crops
keeps the land in better condition than
where 'all cotton is the rule. 1t
does more; as cattle and hogs are
raised for home use they and the vege-
table refuse supply means for enriching
the land. Thus there are two elements at
work to increase the production of cotton
the extension of acreage and increased
productiveness. As the supply of cotton
becomes more ample, by the inevitable
law Of supply and demand, the price must
fall. True, the increase of home manu-
faeture will to some extent counterfeit
the declining tendency, but it cannot avert
it. Cheapness of the fiber does not nee
e~ssarily mean loss to the grower, if the
larger amount of cotton be grown at a
less expense, and, from better cultivation
from varied crops, with less loss from the
occasional failure of the crop. Cheapness
will also give us a nearer approach to the
monopoly of the worlds markets, making
it difficult for India, Egypt, and elsewhere
to o%utrival us. This probable cheaper
ing of the cotton fiber is compatible with
equal, if not increased, money productive
ness of the cotton plant, because a por-
ton of hat plants yield that was former
ly thrown away is becoming yearly
more into demand-the c~otton-seed.
As the uses of the oil and cake from
the seed become more known they are
more valued, and the time is coming
when our export of seed oil will assume
great importance. In the Atlanta Con-
stitution of August Odd, there is a COM
munication with the w~ell-known sigma
ture of Ell Perkins" 1t is written
from New York, and gives what the
writer knows about seed oil, and his
knowledge is derived from intelligent OBJ
%servation, and amounts to the following:
C~otton-seed can be made to double the
waa1th .nf thn G,,tI - Al-,o.A Il,
Gated family in New York City now uses
it in place of olive oil and lard, and it is
esteemed sweeter and healthier for food
than lard or common butter. 1t is easier
to handle, easier for the cooks use. New
York people are employing it in all sal
ads, mayonaise dressing; and frying oys-
tiers, fish, and making cakes, and for ord
mary shortening In fact pork and
lard have disappeared from the New
York cuisine, and seed oil has taken its
place. The writer is using his fourth
three-gallon can, and his last can
was better than he had had previously.
On the day before writing he had toma-
toes and cucumbers, with French dress
ing of seed oil, and the salmon was fried
in that oil. Several epicures present at
the meal pronounced the oil equal to the
best olive oil. ELI Perkins" in the
presence of these facts, comes to the con-
clusion that an annual 7,000,0 900 bales of
cotton will be accompanied by 5000, 600
barrels of seed ola healthful food, that
is banishing the miserable pork and lard
of-Cincinhati and Chicago from all the
better class of tables. Yet the cotton
d.. growers have been throwing away the
good food, and they added a second throw
ing away-that of money for bad food.
The foremost Now York chemist, Prof.
Chandler, %pronounces. the cotton-seed
superior in healthful qualities to pork or
lard, and adds that it will not pro-
duce dyspepsia. The writer adds that,
with proper harvesting, the seed oil will
produce one-half the money derived from
the fiber. To harvest properly the seed
should not be allowed to mold in deep
bins, but should be spread out so as to
dry without heating, then ground while
fresh, so as to preserve the sweetness and
delicacy of the seed. Southern Europe
and Asia will use the oil if rightly ,har-
vested, and the time will come when
New York will as impatiently await the
new crop of seed-oil as it now awaits the
new crop of tea, coffee or -four. The
educated Italians in New York use seed
oil with their maccaroni. Five hundred
Italian laborers on the New York, West
Shore and Buffalo railroad are using seed
oil in place of meat, which they do not
eat, and what splendid food, so healthful
as compared with lard, this will be for
the laborers in the South when the
whites have been careful to intro
duce it at their own tables. Such is the
knowledge and the estimate of this man
Of intelligence and experience, and whar
he says is worth the attention of ever!
cotton-grower. We see from all hat ha:
been here said that, supposing the price
OF cotton fiber to fall, the value of tn,
cotton plant would not be lessened; ther,
Will be increase of production withou
corresponding increase of outlay; Their
Will be home manufacture of the create
portion of the fiber; there will be abilit
to overcome Indian and Egyptian rivalr
IN cOttOn-groWIDg, and there will be tn