The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-14
coTToN-SEED's ROMANCE.
The Story of It's Rise in Importance Reads
Like a Fairy Tale.

Like a Fairy Tale.
Was ever there history, this side of
Cinderella, of the uprising of humility.
like that of the cotton-seedp 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 hungering, and
reluctantly admitted to the rank of
ugly utilities.
Shortly afterwards found to be nutri-
tious food for beasts as we'll as soil, and
thereupon treated with something like
respect.
Once admitted to the circle of farm
husbandries, found to hold thirty-fve
gallons of pure oil to the ton, worth in
its crude state $14 to the ton, or s40,-
100000 for the whole crop of seed.
But then a system was devised for re-
ining this oil up to value of 81 gal
Ion and the frugal Italians placed
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 cotton-seed was a better fertili-
yer and better stock when robbed of
its thirty-fve gallons of oil than before.
And the hulls of the seed made the
best of fuel for feeding the oil mill en-
CINE!
And that the ashes of the bulls
scooped from the engines drift had the
highest commercial value as potash!
And that the ''refuse" of the whole
made the best and purest soap-stock to
carry to the toilet the perfumes of Luz
bin or Colgate!
About this time we began to spell
cotton-seed with capital letters.
And how it travelled abroad in its
various dresses! AS meal cakes it
whitened the meadows of England with
woody fleeces and flattened the British
cattle under the oaks; it spurted on the
stoves of the Dutch in lieu of lard; 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 dykes in Holland it
went forth to parade in all the bravery
of butter and butterine.
In our own country it removed the
wasting strength of Southern fields and
clad them with whiteness that would
shame the fleeces of England land, or
yellow that would pale the feeces of
| Argonauts. 1t knocked the Western
hog into spots and poured the Western
lard out of the frying-pan into the fire.
1t furnished the Armours and Fair
bankses with pure substitute for the
rancid fat they had been shipping us,
and suggested the possibility of a clean
and cheap lard.
And now comes gentleman of this
city with a process by which he ex-
tracts thirty gallons Of fine oil from
every ton of cotton-seed meal after the
oil mills have done with it. In the
"taiings' of the oil mills he finds this
unexpected and ample store, which he
deity extracts with naptha, leaving the
meal more nutritious as food for beast
or field than before he took $40 per ton
from it.
This process he has proved repeatedly
in his laboratory and 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 by the old process from a
given quantity of seed.
More than this, it suggests the SPLEEN
did possibilities yet undeveloped for
this rural Cinderella that has risen all
so swiftly from the ashes and the waste
heap. Constitution.