St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-05-19
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
The Romance Of cot,onseed.

Was ever there history, this side
OF cinderella. OF the uprising Of hui.
manitY like that of tho cotton seed,
Sect
For seventy years despised rs .
nuisance and burned or dumped as
garbage.
1hcn discovered 10 be the very food
Tor which the soil was hungering, and
reluctantly admitted 10 the rank of
ugly utilities
Shortly afterwards found TO he mn.
trltious food for beast as well as soil,
and thcrcupon treated with something
like respect
Once admitted TO the circle of farm
nusbandrics found to hold thirty-five
gallons OF pure oil to the ton, worth
IN It's crude state sl4 to the ton, or
GAO COO 600 for the whole crop Of seed.
But then a system was devised for
refining this oil up TO a value Of one
dollar a gallon. and the frugal Ital-
ians placed a cask of it at the root of
every olive tree and then defied the
borean breath of the Alps.
And then experience showed that
the ton of cot.onsccd was a better fer
tiiizer and better stock food when
robbed of its thirty-five gallons OF oil
than before.
And that the hulls of tho seed made
the best Of fuel for feeding the OLE
mill engine!
And that the ashes OF the hulls
scoopcd from the engines drift had
the highest commercial valuo .s
potash!
AID that the s'refuse" of the whole
made the best and rurcst soap stock
to carry TO tha toilet the perfumes Of
Lubin or Colgate!
About this time we began TO spell
coftonsecd with capital letters
And how it travelled abroad in lis
various dresses! As meal cakes it
whitened the meadows of England
with the woolly fccces and fat
tened the British cattle under
the oaks; it spurted ON the
stoves Of the DLtch in lard; il
glistened in the cafes of Paris as olive
oils under seals and signatures il
couldn't pronounce to save its life,
and from under the dikcs in Holl and
it went forth TO parade in al. the
bravery of butter and butterine.
In our own country 1t renewed the
wasting strength Of Southern fields.
aid clad them with whiteness that
would shame the leeces of England.
or yellow that would pale the fleeces
Of Argonauts. 1t knocked the West
crn hog into spots. and poured the
Western lard out of the frying-pan
into the fire. 1t furnished the Ar
mours and Fairbankses with a pure
substitute for the rancid fat they had
been shipping us, and suggested the
possibility Of a clean and cheap lard.
And about this time Congress jumped
onto cottonseed with both feet. and
proposed to check its further career by
prohibitory tax.
And now comes gentleman of this
city with a process by which he cx-
tracts thirty gallons of fine oil from
every ton of cotton-secd meal after the
oil mills have done with it. In the
.failings" Of the oil mills lie finds this
unexpected and ample store. which
he deity extracts with naphiha, leav-
ing the meal more nutritious ~ food
for beast or field than before he took
go per ton from it.
This process he has proved repeat-
cdly in his laboratory. and next week
will approve in wider practice in a
mill erected for the purpose near
atlanta This invention will add
forty per cent to the quantity Of oil
taken by the process from a given
quantity of seed.
More than this. it suggests the
splendid possibilities yet undeveloped
for this rural Cinderella that has risen
all % swiftly from the ashes and the
waste heap!-Atianta Constellation.