Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-10
ooTTON-sEED's ROMANCE.

COTTON-SEED'S ROMANCE.
 The Story of Hts Rtse in Agricultural
 Importance Reads Like Fairy Tale.
 From the Atlanta Constitutional Was ever there history, this side of Cin-
 derella, of the uprising of humility, like that
 of the cetton-seeda See! For seventy years despised as a nuisance and burned or dumped as garbage. Then discovered to be the very food for which the soil was hungeriag. and reluctantly admitted to the rank of ugly utilities. Shortly afterwards found to be nutritious food for beast as well as soil, and thereupon treated with something like respect. Once admitted to the circle of farm hus
 bandries, found to hold thirty-fve gallons of pure oil to the ten, worth, in it's crude state, 1 crop of seed.
 1 But then a system was devised for refining l this oil up to value of $1 gallon, and the | frugal Italians placed 8 cask of it at the root I of every elive tree and then defed the Borean breath of the Alps. ssze1--5-,s
 And then experience showed that the ton of cotton seed was a better fertilizer and better stock when robbed of it's thirty five gallons ot | oil than before.
 [ | of fuel for feeding the oil mill engine. | And that the ashes of the hulls scooped from | the engine's drift had the highest commercial l value as potash!
 | And that the "refuss" of the whole made | the best and purest soap stock to carry to the toilet the perfumes of Lubin or Col l gatel
 About this time we begin to spell cotton 1 seed with capital letters.
 And how it travelled abroad in its various dressesl Az meal cakes it whitened the mea. dows of England with woolly deeces and ! fattened the British cattle under the oaks; ii | seuttered on the stoves of tho Dutch in lieu I of lsrd it glistened in the cafes of Paris as | olive oils under seals and signatures it | couldn't even pronounce to save its life, and | from under the dikes in Holland it went forth to parade in all the bravery of butter and | butterine.
 In our own country it removed the vast | ing strength of southern fields and clad them with whiteness that would shame the \ hesces of England, or yellow that would | pale the deeces of Argonauts. It knocked | the western hog into spots and poured the western lard out of the frying-p pan into the I fire. It furnished the Arnours and Fair. ! banksss with pure substitute for the ran- | cid fat they had besn shipping us, and sug- gested the possibility of a clean and cheap ! lard.
 ! And about this time Congress jumped on to cotton-seed with both feet, and proposed
 to check it's further career by a prohibitory | tax.
 | And now comes a gentleman of this city ! with a process by which he extracts thirty
 gallons of fine oil from every ton of cotton seed meal after the oil mills have done with
 it. In the "tailings" of the oil mills he ! finds this unexpected and ample store, which he deftly extracts with naphtha, leaving the meal more nutritious as food for beast
 or field than before he took $10 per ton from it.
 This process he has proved repeatedly in
 his laboratory, and next week will approve | in wider practice in mill erected for the purpose near Atlanta. This invention will add 40 per cent. to the quantity of oil taken blythe old process from given quantity of ! seed.
 Mere than this, 1t suggests the splendid possibilities yet undevelsped for this rural | Cinderella that has risen all so swiftly from | the ashes of the waste heap!