Nevada County picayune., 1888-04-25
AGRICULTURAL.
Romance of Cottonseed.

Was ever there history this side of Cinderella of the uprising Of humanity like that of the cottonseed. See!
 For seventy years despised as a nuisance and burned or dumped as garbage.
 Then discovered to he the very food for which the soil was hungering and, reluctantly admitted to the rank of ugly utilities.
 Shortly afterwards found to be nu- tritious food for beast as well as soil, and thereupon treated with some thing like respect.
 Once admitted to the circle of farm husbandries, found to hold thirty-fve gallous of pure oil to the ton. worth in its crude state Sl4 to the ton. or s4O. 900 .OOO for the whole crop of seed.
 But then system was devised for refining this oil up to value of one dollar a gallon. and the frugal ltal- ian placed cask of il at the root of every olive tree and then defed the Korean breath of the Alps.
 And then experience showed that the ton of cottonseed was better fer tilizer and better stock food when robbed of it's thirty-iiye gallons of oil than before.
 And that the huls of the seed made the best of fuel for feeding the oil- mill engine.
 And that the ashes of the hulls scooped from the engines drift had had the highest commercial value as potash:
 And the refuse" of the whole made the best, purest soap stock to carry to the toilet, the perfumes of Lubln or tOl1ltcJ
 About this time we began to spell cottonseed with capital letters.
 And how it travelled abroad in it's various dresses As meal cakes, 1t whtened the meadows of England with the woolly fleeces and fattened the British cattle under the cake, it spurted on the stoves of the Dutch in lard it glstened in the cafes in Paris as olive oils under seals and signatures it couldn't pronounce to save it's life, and from under the dix es in Holland it went forth to parade in all the bravery of butter and but terine.
 In our own county it renewed the wasting strength of Southern fields, and clad them with feeces that would shame the ileeces of England, or yellow that would pale the fieeces of Argonauts. It knocked the Wes- tern hog into spots, and poured the Western lard out of the frying pans into the fire. It furnished the Ar mours and Fairbankses with q pure substitute for the rancicd fat they had been shippings us, and sugges- ted the possibility of clean and cheap lard.
 And about this time Congress jumped onto cottonsecd with both feet, and proposes to check it's furth- CT career by a prohibitory tax.
 And now comes gentleman of this city with process by which he extracts thirty gallons of fine oil from evsrv ton of cottonsecd 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 napththa, leaving the meal more nu- tritious as food for beast or field than before he took slo per ton from it.
 This process he has proved re- peatedly in his laboratory, and next week will approve in wider practical in mill erected for the purpose near Atlanta. This invention will add forty forfy percent. to the quantity of oil taken by the process from a given quantity of seed.
 More than this. it suggests the splendid possibilities yet undeyelop- ed, for this rural Cinderilla that has rised all so swiftly from the ashes and the waste heap.--Atlanta Consti- ton.