The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-04-28

Cotton seed On n ths Asesna.n

Cotton seed Oh IN the Ascendant.
The investigation of lard adultera-
tion has given cotton seed oil much
prominence and created genera! feel
ing that the oils usefulness has only
just begun. The history of the cotton
seed reads more like . romance than
a reality, owing to tho length of time
il took for them to be recognized as
having merchantile value. For over
seventy-fvs years the seed was
condemned as q nuisance and dumped
as garbage or else burned as the safer
way of being rid of them. After this,
- If by accident, they were disco rered
to be "a Invaluable fertilizer and the
very thing the famished soil was hun
gerlDg for TO bring it up to its former
state of productiveness. Shortly after
this they were discovered to answer
most admirably as n food for beast,
as we'll as 70. the soil, after which the
spirit of destruction that had prevail
I'd for nearly century gave way to
careful saving Of the seeds. Finding
they were nutruous for beast led the
more inquisitive to experiment with
the view for extracting the oil that IL
was known they contained. IL was
then discovered that out of a ton of
seeds thirty-fve gallons of crude oil
could be pressed, having merchantable
value Of about forty cents a gallon
a total for the entire crop of 100000
900. Naturally the inventive Ameri-
can put forth renewed efforts TO make
the oil still more valuable, and, by =
process of refining, the price was adj
vanccd TO one dollar . gallon. The
frugal Italian utilized the refuse for
olive trees by putting u cask of 1t at
the roots of the tree. This also led
to the discovery that the seeds, after
being robbed OF the oil, WAS q better
fertilizer aud better food for stock
than before. AS fuel was high and
expensive where some of the cotton
seed mills we're located, suggested the
using of the hulls for fuel To run the
engines of the mills. for which they
were found better in many respects
than either coal or wood. From the
ashes of the hulls il was found that
potash could be successfully made.
This led 10 their being saved and the
potash manufactured from them COM
mands the highest market value.
After all this the "refuse" of the
whols has been found to make the
best and purest soap stock to carry to
the toilet the finest and most highly
scented perfume. Not content with
the obtaining of the above from the
once despised cotton seeds, an Allan
IA, GeOrgia, mechanic has invented
process by which he extracts thirty
gallons of fine oil from every ton of
cotton seed meal after the oil mills
are through with them, and this too,
ii is claimed, without injury to tho
meal or tailings for animal food or as
q fertilizer. In speaking of the mer-
its of the cotton seeds the Atlanta,
Georgia, Constitution becomes poeti-
cal and gets Off the following:
AS meal cakes il whitened the mead
owe of England with wcolly heeces
and fattened the British cattle under
the oaks; 1t spurtered on the stoves of
the Dutch in lieu of lard it glistened
in the cafes of Paris as olive oils un-
der seals and signatures 1t couldn't
even pronounce to save it's life, and
from under the dikes 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
tho feeces of England, or yellow that
would pale the heeces of Argonauts.
II knocked the western hog into spots
and poured the western lard cut of
the frying. pan into the fire. 1t fur.
nishcd tho Armours and Fairbanks