The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
THE VALUE OF COTTON SEED.
Thousands of Dollars Hitherto Wasted
Can now be Turned into Profit
lErom the News and Courier.

Having noticed your late articles and
comments upon the value of the pro-
ducts of cotton seed, and endorsing the
soundness of your advice to our farm
ers that they shall directly avail them
selves of all that can be produced out
Of them, I ask forspace in your columns
for data and specifications tending to
prove the points you make.
In the matter OF the value Of the
hulls the facts az to what th:y have
positively accomplished in fattening
cattle are incontestable. The exact
proportionate value is made known
known quantity by chemical analysis.
DR.. Dabney gives this analysis as fol-
lows: IS per cent. fats, Alp per cent.
crude cellulose, 1857 per cent. carbo-
hydrates and 2.19 per cent. proteine.
Their value as cattle food, as rated
from this analysis, is as l.S9 to $50 of.
timothy hay, and 1.60 of grain, though
some users claim that the nutriment is
more available, and that practically
they are better for fattening than the
best hay.
Their present selling price for this
purpose will averageS4 per ton, though
as compared with the items above, their
real value is more, and higher price
ought to be and probably will be OBJ
tained. The Inconvenience of their
bulk could be readily done away with
by pressing them into q condensed
form.
First as a cattle food and then as
fertilizer, these hulls have been pearls
Of unknown value, Overwhelmingly
they have not been enough cast before
swine. The raw seed contains about
so per cent each of hulls and meats.
The value Of the decorticated seed or
meats, taking into consideration the
fact that their reduced cost of freights,
greater convenience in handling, and
their more direct availability in oil
manufacture will more than oompen-
safe for the loss of the lint, is computed
on a reasonable basis to be twice that
Of the raw seed 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
market will be sure and accessible
one, and there is no room here as in the
case of the hulls for an advance over
present values. Thus at the lowest es-
innate our planters can get S4 more per
ton for their seed than they have pre-
viously 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, 81 so 81 80 per ton of seed.
Of course this lint is valueless as cattle
food, and the hulIs would not lose in
value by its separation from them.
Thus common sense would seem to
dictate the provision of means for the
realizing of the profits pointed out, and
the utilization at home of all the pro-
duets of the cotton seed will yearly
add thousands of dollars to the wealth
of the country in which they are pro-
duced.
It has been well said that No country
offers better field for cattle, stock,
hog and sheep raising than our sunny
South, and the only obstacle, the pro-
viding of a cheap food supply, seems to
be met by the never exhaustible coun-
try of ''Great King Cotton"
H. w, G.,J
Columbia, S. c., July l3.