The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-07-18
The Value of Cotton Seed.

To the Editor Of the News and Courier !:
Having noticed your late articles and
comments upon the value of the products
of cotton seed, and endorsing the sound
ness of your advice to our farmers that
they shall directly avail themselves of all
that can be produced out of them, I ask
for space in your columns for data and
specifications tending 70 prove the points
you make.
In the matter Of the value of the hulls
the facts as 10 what they have positively
accomplished in fattening cattle are in.
contestable. The exact proportionate
value is made known quantity by
chemical analysis. DR.. Dabney gives
this analysis as follows: .5S per cent. fats,
47.12 per cent crude oellulose, 1857
per cent. carbo. hydrates and 2.l9 per
cent. profeine. Their value as cattle
food, as rated from this analysis, is as .39
to 1.50 of timothy hay, and 1.60 of grain,
though some users claim that the nutri.
ment is more available, and that practi.
cally they are better for fattening than
the best hay.
Their present selling price for this
purpose will average 81 per ton, though,
as compared with the items above, their
real value is more, and a higher price
ought to beand probably will be obtained.
The Inconvenience of their bulk could be
readily done away with by pressing them
into condensed form.
:, First as cattle food and then as fer.
tilizer, these hulls have been pearls of
unknown value, but unfortunately they
have not been enough cast before swine.
The raw seed contains about 90 per cent.
each of hulls and meath. The value of
the decorticated seed or meats, taking in.
to consideration the fact that their reduc
ed cost of freights, greater convenience
10 handling, and their more direct avail.
ability in oil manufacture will more than
compensate for the loss of the lint, is
computed on reasonable basis to be
twice that of the raw sesd per ton, or in
other words these meats from each ton of
seed will sell for as much as is now real.
lied from the entire ton of seed itself.
Since so many local mills are now in
process of erection in this State, the mar.
ket will be sure snd accessible one, and
there is no room here as in the case Of the
hulls for an advance over present val.
ues. Thus at the lowest estimate our
plant ters can get 81 more per ton for their
seed than they have previously obtained.
In this calculation no allowance is made
for the value of the lint which remains
on the seed after ginning, and which,
after being taken off by special gins made
for the purpose, yields an average of
thirty pounds per ton, worth from five to
six cents per pound, $3.50 to $1.80 per
ton ofseed. Of course this lint is value.
less as cattle food, and the hulls would
not lose in value by its separation from
them.
Thus common sensp would seem to
dictate the provision of means for the
realizing Of the profits pointed out, and
the utilization at home of all the products
of the cotton seed will yearly add thou.
sands.of dollars to the wealth of the
country in which they are produced.
It has been we'll said chat no country
offers better field for cattle, stock, hog
and sheep raising than our sunny South,
and the only obstacle, the providing of a
cheap food supply, seems to be met by
the never exhaustible country of "Great
King Cotton" WIG. Jr.
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