The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-02
ROMANCE OF COTTON SEED.
Its Rise Ia Agricultural Importance
Reads Lika u Fairy Tale.

Was ever there history this side OF
Cinderella, Of the uprising of humility,
Exc that OF the cotton seed? 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 10 the rank OF ugly
utilities.
Shortly afterward found TO be nutri-
tious food for beast as well as soil, and
thereupon treated with something like
respect.
Once admitted TO the circle Of farm
husbandries. found TO hold thlrty-iive
gallons of pure oil to the ton, worth IN
its crude state sll 80 the ton, or s+O,'
900. 900 for the whole GRIP of seed.
Bar then a system was devised Tor 10
hning this oil up To a value Of 81 a gal
lon, and the frugal Italians placed a oas6
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 fertilizer
and a better stock ford when robbed
Of it, thirty five gallons Of oil than before
And that the huiis of the seed made
the best OF fuel for feeding the Oh mill
enginei
And that the ashes Of the hulls scooped
from the engines drift had the highest
commercial value as potashi
And that the "rcfuse" Of the whole
made the best and purest soap stock to
carry to the toilet the perfumes OF Lubin
or Colgate,
About this time we began to spell cot
ton seed with capital letters
And how it travelled abroad ia its
various dresses As meal cakes II
whitened the meadows Of England with
woolly necces and fattened the British
cattle under the oaks; 1t spuitered on
the stoves of the Dutch in lieu OF lard
il glisteued in The cafes Of Paris rs olive
oils under seals and signatures Il couldn {
even pronounce TO save its life, and from
under the dikes ia Holland 1t went forth
20 parade III ali the bravery OF butter
and butterlne.
In our own country IL renewed the
wasting strength OF southern fields and
clad them with whitenes5 that would
shame the iieeces OF England, OF yellow
that would pale the fieeces Of Argonauts
1t knocked the western hog into spots
and poured the western land ont Of the
irving pan into the fire. Itfmnished the
Armours and Fairbaukses with a pure
substitute for the rancid fat they had
been shipping IA. and suggested the pos
sibility of clean and cheap lard.
And about this time congress jumped
Oh to cotton seed with both feet and pro-
posed 10 check It's further career by a
prohibitory tax.
And noW comes a gentleman Of tins
city with process BY which he extracts
thirty gallons ot fine oil from every tom
Of cotton seed meal after the ol mills
have done with Il. la the 'taiIings' Of
the oil mills he finds this unexpected and
ample store. which he deity extracts
with naphtha leaving the meal more
nutritious as food for beast Or field than
before he took SO per ton from II.
This process he has proved repeatedly
in his laboratory and soon viii approve
in wider practice III a mill erected ior 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 splendid
possibilities yet undeyeloped for thisrural
Cinderella that has risen all 50 swiftly
from the ashes ana the waste heap!-At-
lanta Constitution.