The Brookhaven leader., 1889-04-18
COTTON SEED.
4 Machine that Will Revolution
izc the Seed Business.

If anyone had prophesied forty
wears ago that the cotton seed bus
mess would ever reach any degree of
I importance, not to speak of its pres
ent magnificent proportion, the haZ-
ardOus assertion would have prOvok-
ed general smile of inCrcdulity, but
uf late years progress in the manutac-
: ture of this product has been so rapid
that the most remarkable advance
CXcites little comment. Nevertheless
the fact that Il machine is now in sue
ccssful operation in this city which
will save present loss of 50 for each
ton of seed handled is of sufficient
importance to make perceptible
ripple on the sea of commerce and to
deserve especial mention.
This machine is the Crawford Cot
ton Seed Cleaner, the invention of Il
brilliant Northern mechanic who has
/ had the advantage of competent adj
viScrs, and the property of the Amer
lean Cotton Oil and Cotton Seed
Cleaning Company, of which Capt. r..
NJ. Smedes and Messrs. f.. Martin and
others of this city and Mr.. Owen Il.
Bugg of New York are the principal
stockholders. Its design is to totally
remove the lint adhering to the sur
face of the seed, task which it ac-
composites perfectly and solely by
mechanical means. Many inventors
have racked their brains to win sue
cess i'll the undertaking and all in
vain. AT one time it was thought
the lint might be burned off with acids
and this was tried, but proved an ut
ter falure,a the chemical impaired the
quality of the seed.
The effort had been abandoned
when Mr.. Crawford attacked the
problem and with the liberia lassist-
ance of the present company over
came its difficulties.
AS turned out from the present ma
chine the seed present the appearance
of shiny brown kernels and are ready
for crushing without further prepare
ton.
From each ton of seed $50 pounds
more of lint is removed 10y the new
process than can be obtained by the
old method of reglnning the seed.
This constitutes valuable material for
paper-stock. In decorticating the seed
preparatory to crushing it consider
able portion of the kernel clung to
husk or hull, and was utterly lost
with all the oil it contained. BY the
new process the whole seed is made
ready for crushing and no portion of
the oil bearing kernel is wasted. This
is estimated to result in net gain of
from ten to fifteen gallons of oil per
ton of seed, besides about 80 pounds
of oil cake. The latter will be more
valuable us feed-stuff for cattle for
having the hulls to increase its bulk
and advantageOusly dilute its rich
ness. 1t will also be more valuable
as a fertilizer, since the hulls contain q
large per cent. of potash. Finally,
seed thus cleaned can be exported to
Europe like any other grain and with
as little danger of becoming heated or
otherwise injured during transit, while
seed i'll its ordinary crude condition
cannot thus be exported, as it inva-
riably becomes heated and spoiled.
Thus it will be seen that the Craw-
ford Cotton Seed Cleaner will give the
cotton planter the benefit of foreign
competition in his own market for all
the seed he can raise.
The enormous possibilities opened
to the South by this improvement can
be better estimated by considering
that The product of seed in n cotton
crop of 100000 bales is fully $500,
600 tons upon which saving of s.
per ton would aggregate $l7,5OO,OOO
or supposing that only two-thirds OF
the seed should be marketed, about
$12, 900, 900 TjcksJgrg Post.