Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-02-02
ROMANCE or corroN SEED.
Its Rise In Agricultural Importanes
Reals Like 6 Fairy TaIe.

Its Rise in Agricultural Importanes
Reads Like = Fairy Tale.
Was ever there a history this side Of
Cinderella, Of the uprising Of humility
like that Of the cotton seeds See!
For seventy years despised as nuisance
and burned or dumped as garbage.
Then discovered to be the very food
for which the soil was hungering, and
reluctantly admitted to the rank Of ugly
utilities.
Shortly afterward found TO be nutri-
tious food for beast as well as soil, and
thereupon treated with something like
respect.
Once admitted to the circle Of farm
husbandries, found to hold thirty-fiye
gallons Of pure oil to the ton, worth In
its crude state ga to the ton, or $40,-
600, 900 for the whole crop Of seed.
But then a system was devised for re-
filming this oil up to value Of 81 a gal
lon, and the frugal Italians placed cask
at the root of every olive tree and then
defied the Borean breath of the Alps.
And then experience showed that the
ton Of cotton seed was better fertilizer
and a better stock ford when robbed
of its thirty five gallons Of oil than before.
And that the hulIs Of the seed made
the best Of fuel for feeding the oil mill
engineI
And that the ashes of the hulls scooped
from the engines drift had the highest
commercial value as potash!
And that the ''reflse" of the whole
made the hest and purest soap stock 70
carry to the toilet the perfumes Of Lubin
or ColgateI
About this time we began to spell cot
ton seed with capital letters.
And how it travelled abroad in its
various dresses! As meal cakes Il
whitened the meadows Of England with
woolly feeces and fattened the British
cattle under the oaks; it sputtered on
the stoves Of the Dutch in hen Of hard
it glistened in the cafes Of Paris as olive
oils under seals and signatures it couldn't
even pronounce to save its life, and from
under the bikes in Holland it went forth
to parade in all the bravery of butter
and butterine.
In our own country it renewed the
wasting strength Of southern felds and
clad them with whiteness that would
shame the feeces of England, or yellow
that would pale the Aeeces Of Argonauts.
It knocked the western hog into spots
and poured the western lard out Of the
frying pan into the fire. 1t furnished the
Armours and Fairlnnkses with pure
substitute for the rancid fat they had
been shipping us, and suggested the pos
sibility of clean and cheap lard.
And about this time congress jumped
ON to cotton seed with both feet and pro-
posed to check its further career by a
prohibitory tax.
And now comes a gentleman Of this
city with process by which he extracts
thirty gallons Of fine oil from every ton
of cotton seed meal after the oil mills
have done with it. In the ''tailings" Of
the oil mills he finds this unexpected and
ample store, which he deity 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 he has proved repeatedly
in his laboratory, and soon will approve
in wider practice in q 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 given
quantity of seed.
More than this, it suggests the splendid
possibilities yet undeveloped for this rural
Cinderella that has risen all so swiftly
from the ashes and the waste heapl-At-
lanta Constitution.