The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-06-29
GM Demnrrat- Star
Romance of the Southern Cotton
Seed-Its Abuses and Uses.
Atlanta Constitution.

Seed-IIS ID Uses
Atlanta Constitution.
Was aver there a history thi
side of the Cinderella of the up
rising of humility like that of tn
cotton seedg See!
For seventy years depised as
nuisance and burned or dumped
as garbage.
Then discovered to be the yer,
food for which the soil was hunger
ing, and reluctantly admitted t,
the rank of ugly utilities.
Shortly afterward found to b.
nutritious food for beasts as wei
as soil, and thereupon treated will
something like respect.
Once admitted 10 the circle o.
farm husbandries, found to hold
thirty-five gallons of pure oil to
the ton, worth in its crude state
S14 to the ton, or S40,000,0O0 for
the whole crop Of seed.
But then a system was devised
for refining this oil TO the value OF
81 gallon, and the frugal Italians
placed a cask of it at the root OF
every olive tree and then defed
the Borean breath of the Alps.
And then experience showed
that the ton OF cotton seed was a
better fertilizer and a better stock
when robbed of its thirty-fve gal
Ions of oil than before.
And the hulIs 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
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 Lubin or Colgate.
About this time we began 10
spell cotton seed with capital let
tiers.
And how it travelled abroad in
its various dresses. AS meal cakes
it whitened the meadows of Eng
land with woody heeces and fat
tened the British cattle under the
oaks it sputtered on the stoves oil
the Dutch in lieu OF lard; it glist-
ened in the cafes of Paris as olive
oil under seals and signatures it
couldn't even pronounce to save
its life, and from under the bikes
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 white
ness that would shame the f~leeces
Of England, or yellow that would
pale the fleeces of ArgOnauts. 1t
knocked the Western hog into
spots and poured the Western lard
out Of the trying-pan INTO the fire.
1t furnishes the ArmourS and Fair
bankses with a pure substitute for
the rancid fat they had been ship
ping us, and suggested possibility
of a clean and cheap lard.
And about this time Congress
jumped on TO cotton seed with
both feet and proposed to check its
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. 1t the "tailings" of the
oil mills he finds tins unexpected
and ample store, which he deftly
extracts with naphtha, leaving the
meal more nutritious as food fol-
beasts or field than before he took
$40 per ton from it.
This process he has proved re.
peatedly in his laboratOry,and nexI
week will approve in wider prac.
tice in a mill erected for the pur.
pose near Atlanta. This invention
will add 40 per cent. 10 the quality
of oil taken by the old process from
a given quantity of seed.
More than this, it suggests the
splendid possibilities yet unde-
veloped from the rural Cinderella
that has risen all so swiftly from
the ashes and the waste heap.