The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-12-21

factor Of commerce has brought a
revenue annually Of over 5000, 600
to the railroads and other transporta-
ton companies. The estimate is
based on the figures of last year.
when there were crushed at the mills
l ,275, 900 tons Of seed, and is as fol-
lows
First-Transportation Of seed from
the plantation to the mills
at an average of $3.50 per
ton, after allowance for so
much as is taken to mills
by wagon. n.............$S,I7s,5O 800
Socond-This yields about,
say, 51,O00,0OO gallons of
crude oil, l,250 tons Of
crude oil, 10 be transport
ed from the crushing mill
to the refining at an aver
age cost of SO per ton -. 1,147,500
Third-This produces about
100000 gallons of refined
oil, or 1873 tons, going
to market either as refined
oil or as part OF other pro-
ducts, al Sc per ton. ...... 1,035,000
FOnrth-From the seed some
28,000000 pounds, or a.
900 tons. OF linters, are
ginned, which go 10 cloth
and paper mills as stock
and return TO market as
cloth and paper, paying
freights both ways not less
than SO per ton on the
round trip. $4,000
FIfth-There is left after oil
has been pressed ont ofthe
seed 483.500 tous of cake
and meal, which pays
freights averaging 81 per
ton in this country. -. l,sS5,OOO
Sixth-1'he residue from re-
fining goes into soap pro-
ducts 10 the extent of a.
bout $4,000 tons, which
pays average freighls of
$40 per ton. -. 100000
Scventh-The hulls are
freighted for cattle food,
aud the ashes from the
hulls arc freighied rs fer
tilizer at aggregate freight
charges Of. of.......... 100000
Total .......$ $8,417,OO0
On the 9th day Of last January
there was launched a tank steamer,
built for tho purpose of carrying on
" cOtton-seed oil, with compartments
for meal and oil cakes, and to ply
between our southern ports and Rot
terdam, Holland, a country which in
1892 imported from US 8, ,973, ,766 gal
Ions Of cotton oil.
Now, one word as to the civilizing
influence Of cotton oil on the colored
man. At the time when Paul Aldige
was begging the planters to sell him
seed there was al old plantation song
something like this:
Go to the great plantations.
Where tho hogs and cattle feed:
The white man gets the cotton and corn,
The Niger gets the seed.
And as this worthless article OF
commerce was thrown away, the
plantation negro added another
verse (:
Naughts a naught,
Figger's a igger;
All 10 de white man,
None TO lie nIgger.
Beautiful as this poetry IL, its truth
and veracity have been shaken, if not
entirely destroyed, by the rise in val
ne of the cotton-seed, for last year
the negro and the small planters re-
ceived over $4,000, 900 for the cot
ton-seed alone, and a writer in a
northern journal says that at Clarks
dale, Miss, he saw a negro who
owned a cotton plantation Of 512 a.
cres which he had acquired principal
ly by the sale of cotton-seed alone.
Time would fail me to tell Of the
many purposes for which cotton oil
is now being used. Broadly stated,
refined cotton-seed oil can be used
for every purpose to which oil can
be put except household illumination.
Summer yellow is the ordinary staple !
oil. The bulk Of this
goes largely in cooking. and by bak-
ers for shortening. Though cotton
seed oil cannot be used in chimney
lamps, il Is a ee-burning, smoke
less, odorless oil in miners lamps,
il being SO excellent for this purpose
that in Ohio the law provides that
oil, pure lard oil or their
equivalent, must be used in mines.
AS the miner has to supply his own
oil. it also commends itself to him
for its cheapness. Cotton-seed oil
is also used for floating tapers in
night lamps, and for altar lamps 10
Roman Catholic churches. 1t is al
20 used for fertilizing purposes, the
fertilizer being mixed with the cot
meal. Atlanta, Ga, now
ships meal for fertilizer all over Geor-
Zia, North and South Carolina and
a labama.
The meal alone is fine fertilizer
Tor corn, oats, wheat aud garden
truck, is unequaled for lawns, and
has the advantage Of being odorless.
Housewives have found that .he
Gold Dust washing powder, which
is a pulverized soap. manufactured
from the products OF cotton seed oil,
secured during the process Of re6n-
ing, is one Of the marvels of fthe age.
Lard compound is composed Of
beef fat and cOtton-seed oil and this