Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-07-17

son predicts that the time Will come
when the seed from bale OF cotton will |
be worth as much as the lint. While
such a statement now seems astound-
ing, when a bale OF cotton is worth,
say, forty-five dollars and tho seed from
it about three or four dollars; yet it
only remains for some ingenious in
ventor to make a cotton harvester that
will pick cotton in order to bring about
a fulfillment of this prediction. Such
a cotton harvester, it is confidently as
serted, has been devised. If it has, 1t
will not be long in proving its morris
If it has not yet come, it will come be
fore many years. When the minds of tn
inventors OF this great American Ma
tion set to work on problem of thi
sort, it will be accomplished before thoii
efforts cease. We may be confident, there.
fore, that the successful cotton harvest
ei. is an assured fact if not now actual.
ly accomplished, soon to. be. This ma
chine will, of course, greatly increasd
the amount of cotton raised, and CORE
spondingly decrease its price. While
the price of the lint will be decreased.
it is not probable that the price of seed
will. 1t is more likely that the seed
will appreciate in value, for the reason
that so much more use wilfbe found for
them than formerly, and than even at
this time
In one respect cotton seed is like India
rubber. 1t is constantly finding new
fields of usefulness Prior to the dis
covery of Goodyear's process of harden
ing India rubber, that article had COM
paratively few uses. Since the inven-
| ton of vulcanized caoutchouc or hard
| ened rubber, its uses have become
| legion.
| A similar history attends the seed OF
| the cotton plant. In former years it
was regarded as little less than nui-
| sance. 1t was thrown out in great heaps
| to rot and waste. FINALLY its fertilizing
properties began to be recognized; in a
small degree, however, for the seed was
rotted before being applied to the land,
| thus wasting large amount of its fer
tility before being used. BY and by it
was discovered that cattle and hogs
loved the seed, but hogs died from eat
ing it. Cattle were fed on it, but it was
discovered that the milk had an I'M
pleasant taste and the butter was white
and puffy. Up to the close of the war,
cotton seed had hardly quotablo value.
Finally some genius, do not know who,
unfortunately, discovered that the kerr
mel of the cotton seed was rich in a val
liable oil, similar to linseed oil, and
useful for great many purposes.
Science was not long in discovering the
wonderful amount of potash contained
in the ash of the hull, and the great
feeding and fertilizing value of the oil
cake (reground into meaD after the oil
was extracted. The much-neglected
cotton-seed began to be regarded by the
farmer as of some value after all; but it
receiving at the oil-mills has paid him
as we'll as the use to which he could
have put his seed on the farm.
At present the seed product of the
cotton-crop of tho South is valued chiefly
for the cotton-oil, the cotton meal for
J feeding cattle and manuring land, and
the hull ash for manure.
AS q most valuable hog ration, cotton
meal has measurably been overlooked;
yet for this purpose it is equally valua-
BILE as for cattle feed.
But it remained for a farmer of the
goober State, Mr.. &. j. Green, of Toe.
COO, Ca, to make the discovery that
roasted cotton seed is one of the very
best and cheapest hog feeds Southern
farmer can get. Like many valuable
dent Mr.. Green had building
burned down some years ago, in which
were stored several hundred bushels Of
cotton-seed. "Much of it," says he
twas burned, but large amount of il
l was only fairly roasted. Icould not llooE
the hogs from it, and they seemed very
fond of the roasted Seed although | was
told that it would surely kill them. But
= it did not; the hogs Nrove on it and
n came up at Christmas time as fat and
fine as any of my neighbors hogs thai
$ had been fed entirely on corn. This
i gave me an idea which did not at once
]. profit by; but year or two later l met
I at the first Atlanta Exposition n gen
tleman who was very familiar with the
S East India cotton crop. l was surprised
o when he assured mo that all cotton seed
was roasted like coffee before it was fec
It to any animal or ground into meal
t Mr.. Green then went to work expert
g mcnting, and, after sundry trials a
It last made rooster which suited him
, He says he now feeds roasted cotton
Q seed meal, the seed being ground in ;
l. common five-dollar hand mill, to all hi
@ stock-horscs, cattle and hogs. He as
|, sured me that he can make just as mucl
n pork from one hundred pounds o
d roasted cotton seed as from the sam
quantity of corn. lie sent mo a sampl
h of the meal, and will send sample an,
o any information wanted to any farme
|, interested in the important matter, VIII
@ will inclose his address and stamps I
e pay postage.
1t agree with Mr.. Green that roaste
r cotton seed for fattening hogs has com
IL to stay. - Dick Naylor, in Souther
st Farm.
,r HERE AND THERE.