The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-10-20
An6iiy subject.

Whore was a pine forest only a few
wintcrs ago IS now the plant OF the Lau-
rens.Oil and Fertilizer Company, work
Ing day n night, and illustrating how
manufacturing enterprise is growing
and succeeding in Laurens. If, reader,
you hare not seen the Oil mill after ev-
erything from roof TO cellar has had it's
summer ~oyerhauliDg) with all its won
deriuf labor-saying machinery IN opera
tion, there is q pleasant hour in reserve
for you-one which YOU would not moro
enjoy in the machinery hall at the Au-
gusta Exposition. When you 20 to the
oil mill Superintendent Yeargin takes
possession of you for the timo and car
RIGS you through all the departments
lucidly explaining the many curious
processes through which the seed passes
before its Juice" is barrellcd and
shipped to people who manipulate i. un-
til 1T liz nice and fit to use in Droiling a
porter house steak.
Mr.. Yeargin calls your attention TO "a
wagon loaded with cotton standing on
the scales by the sido OF tho gin room.
An enormous hollow tube big enough
Tor dude to crawlthrouGh, which comes
rom tho regions somewhere above,
STICKS Its mouth in to tho wagon and
the cotton seems TO be gulpud up by it.
Ilacing your hand to It's mouth you
ma chat there is Il strong draught up
the tube, that 1T is merely suction that
so rapidly, almost "whilo you wait"
empties the wagon; AMI you are poor
physicist if you do not guess that there
is n fan inside tho house to raise tho
wind that rnians TIM .nttn,, In ,h, -,,
room three gins are running. Nobody
is feeding them because tho cotton
lifted by tho process lust described
drops into their gaping mouths from
overhead. This apparatus is the famous
Sailor Elevator bou which so much
has been said. One of the novel and
valuable points abou: ii Is that as the
cotton is an hdnSitu up The tube, tho
rush of air pulls the locks apart and n
great deal Of trash and dirt is siIted out;
of course the quality of tho bale is i'm.
proved.
In tho mill proper, thore are more
gins through which the seed must go
to clean it OF tho last "ycstigc," so to
speak, of lint, and incidentally, save a
bale Il day. Then tie seed is crushed
and carried along Il sort of box with Il
perforated bottom. The mcat drops
through the holes and Tho hulls 20 some
where olso-itd doesn't matter whore lust
now. The meat falls into mill where
1T is ground into meal, then it meanders
up an elevator until it settles into heat
crs where 1T is cooked for II few minutes.
Then 1T comes out of these moulded into
cakes, rich ginger cakes in cClor-and
an expert dartoy throws them into the
pon-which has recoptacles for dozens
OF them. After Il while the press begins !
to move, an automatic hydraulic contri- /
vance furnishing the power. Tho oil
drips slowly at first, but soon there is Il
beautiful stream of rich amber lowing
into the tank beneath, whence it is
pumped to another room and barrcllcd.
This is II brief description OF what a
visitor will see, leaving out all sorts OF
interesting things which might inter-
est him for hours. The Laurens Oil
Mill deserves TO succeed because IL has
the very best machinery, capable officers
and has earned u splendid reputation for
It's fertilizer. 1t has been Il public bena-
factor to the arnor of Iaurens and
thoy arc only looking to thcir WI inter
est in giving it patronage.