The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-06-12
sl New Use for Cotton Seed Hulls,


a most wonderful plant is the cotton
plant. The staple it produces clothes the
sworld. Its seed furnishes an oil which,
when refined, is sold as pure olive oil,
and which enters into various food pro.
ducts. The cake which remains when
tie oil has been. crushed from the seed is
! high grade fertilizer, as we'll as high
nae cattle food, and the bulls of the
seed are as nutritious food for milch
.;oMs as ensilage.
Ever this is not all. Recent inventions
snnd experiments which have been made
gand carried on by a citizen of Atlanta,
:.tave Demonstrated the fact that the cot.
ston seed hnlls, after they, have 0een ma
snipulated by the machinery of the mills,
swili yield from twenty five to thirty per
scent.! of dry fibre which forms the high.
Jest grade of paper stock. This stock will
;senter. into the best grades of$linen and
ledger paper. 1t,is what may be termed
.the trunk end Of the fibre, and is therefore
sssronger;and better for the purpose than
sthe. staple ITSELF,
Walter T.: Forbes, the we'll known
inventor of Atlanta, whose decorticating
processes have. already been referred to in
these columns, is now in Albany, New
Cork, where be has been for several days
experimenting with cotton seed. hulls as
paper: stock. The final experiments were
made at the paper mills of Mr.. WI. As.
sSkell ,sof Albany, and they were successful.
I'VE have before as specimen Of the pa
sper pulp made from the cotton seed fibre,
and It seems to be all that can be desired.
:Mr. Forbes is the promoter of this enter
prise and he has made inventions, the
patents of which are now producing the
paper stock ffom the cottonseed hulls in
its most perfect form.
r. But this is only part of Mr.. Forbes's
< process. When the fibre for the paper
::sstock IS: extracted from the hulls, the res
sidum will make the best liquid fertilizer
IS any known products. The ligneous
portion Of the hulls is thoroughly dis
solved and held in solution, and will be
--ssthe basis for a fertilizer in liquid form.
IItg.must have occurred to those who have
given, the subject any thought that the
baby plant would thrive more Justify if
sfed On liquid instead of SOLID food, a sys-
I TEN that can be kept up at various stages
sof Its growth. On the other hand it is
exceedingly difficult to apply without
waste solid fertilizer to growing crop.
1T is for this reason that the leading far
mers Of Germany and other European
countries use liquid fertilizers.
is fact we'll known to farmers that
s the cotton seed hulls resist most strongly
! the observation-disclosures of nature. They
remain in the soil a long time before they
;Edecompose and before the food they con-
stain can be assimilated by the plants. By
:sthe Forbes process, the fibre left on the
shuii is taken for commercial purposes,
s while the portion furnished by the soil
!; during the growth of the plant is return
5ed to the soiI in the shape of liquid fer.
sstilizer that is instantly available as plant
food. Growing plants cannot receive
& promptly the proper nourishment from
sany solid fertilizer-a fGct that has been
learned from dear experience by the far
mers. By the Forbes process, the bulls
are digested in q few hours, and their
isiiilizing properties returned to the soil
airsthe most nutritious form.
Another advantage of this liquid fer
gtiiizsr is the fact that the chemicals
which are employed in reducing the hulls,
1E;Whils;in no way Injurious to plants or to
! any form of vegetable life, will destroy
Bugs and worms and their eggs. 1t is q
perfect fertilizer as we'll as destroyer of
insects, and, as it is in liquid form, it can
be supplied to the cotton plants when the
caterpillar threatens, and thus serve q
double purpose. Last, but not least, it
will be very cheap.
sSslAll this meaus more industries for our
! southern country, and itmeans, moreover,
Sthat Atlanta is ahead, as usual.-Atlanta
Constitution.