The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-18
corroN-sEED.s ROMANCE.
The Story OF Its Rise in Agricultural Inn
porsance Reads Like a Fairy Tale.

The Story OF ITS Rise in Agricultural Inn
portance Reads Like a Fairy Tale.
Atlanta Constitution.
Was aver there history, this side Of Cinder-
ella, of the uprising of humility, like that of the
cotton-seed2 Seei
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 ad-
mitted to the rank of ugly utilities.
Shortly afterwards found to be nutritious
food for beast we'll as SOIL and thereupou
treated with something like respect.
Once admitted to the circle of farm husband
ries, found to hold thirty-6ve gallons of pure oil
to the ton. worth in its crude state $l4 to the
ton. $40, 900, 900 for the whole crop of seed.
But then q system devised for refining
the oil up to value of ST. "A gallon and the frugal
Italians placed cask of it az the of every
olive tree and then defed the Borean breath Of
the Alps.
cotton seed was better fertilizer and better
sock food when robbed of its thirty-fve gallons
of oil than before.
And that the bulls of the seed made the best of
fuel for feeding the oil mill engine!
And that the ashes of the bulls scooped from
the engines drift had the highest commercial
value potash
And that the ''refuse" of the whole made the
best and purest soap stock to carry to the toilet
the perfumes of Lubin Colgatel
About this time we began to spell cotton seed
with capital letters.
And how it travelled abroad in it's various
dresses AS meal cakes it whitened the
ue6ceS
fiattsned the British cattle under the oaks: it
spattered the stoves of the Dutch in lieu of
lard; it glistened in the cafes of Paris as olive
oils under seals and signatures il couldn't even
pronounce to save its life, and from under the
dikes in Holland it went forth to parade in all
the bravery of butter and butterine.
In own country it renewed the wasting
strength of Southern fields and clad them with
whiteness that would shame the heeces OF
ENGLAND. yellow that would pale the
feeces of Argnnauts. It knocked the Western
hog into spots and poured the Western lard out
of the frying-pan into the fire. It furnished
the Armours and Fsirbankses with pure sub
stitute for the rancid fat they had been shipping
us, and suggested the possibility of clean and
cheap lard.
And about this time Congress jumped on to
cotton-seed with both feet and proposed to check
its further career bp prohbitory tax
And now comes gentleman of this city with
q process by which ne extracts thirty gallons of
fine oil from every ton of cotton-seed meal after
the ollmills have done with il In the ttailings"
ample store which he deftly extracts with
naphtha. leaving the meal more nutritious as
food for beast or field than before he took $40
per ton from it.
This process be has proved repeatedly in his
laboratory and next week will approve in wider
practice in a 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 1t suggests the splendid posi-
bilites yet undeyeoped for this rural Cinder-
ella that has risen all swiftly from the ashes
and the waste heap.