The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-04-02
(OTTON-SEED
PRODUCTS.
Enormous Increase in the Output
Of the New Industrial
Agent.
Some Of the Large Mills in the
South.

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stuffs makes new competition with
other feeding materials. Some infor-
nation concerning this infant indus
try may prove interesting. The
crushing of cotton seed is of such re-
cent origin that it only dates back a
few years in the cotton States of
America.
There are about 325 Cotton oil mills
in the South. Texas has largely the
greatest number of mills, and is the
greatest producer OF cotton seed oil
Rproducts, there being operated in that
State ITO mills. These mills crushed
the present season 500, 600 tons of seed
being more seed than the total United
States crushed five years ago.
The American Cotton Oil Company
of New York City, operates seventy
two crude oil mills, fifteen refineries,
four lad and cottoline plants, nine
soap factories, fifteen cotton ginneries,
| three congresses and two fertilizer
mixing plants, total of 12O located
in sixteen States, with a capitaliza-
ton of $33,000,000. The value of the
other mills is up in the millions. The
largest oil mills in the South, is at
Sherman, Texas, with crushing ca
pacity of 4l6 tons per day. 1t is an
industry which operates the machin-
cry barely six nenths in the year, the
other half of the year remaining idle,
Cotton seeds are sold more readily
than the cotton lint. The competition
of the mill agents at the depots on the
railways often enables the planter to
obtain considerable more money for
his seed than they are worth. Every
SEQ pound bale of cotton produces
1000 pounds of seed, or for every two
bales of cotton there is f seed one ton.
A nine-million-bale crop of cotton pro-
duces four and one-half million tons
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Of cotton seed. 1t is estimated that
the total crush for the season just clos
ing will be about one and half mil
lion tons of cotton seed, this being only
oue-fourth of the cotton seed produc-
ed the past year.
The cotton seed crushers have found
"eady sale for their oil in the Old
World, until of more recent date there
1 mas been and is growing demand at
home more and more each year as the
product becomes better known among
American manufactures of cottoline
and lard compounds. The Italian,
Spanish and German Governments are
kicking" about the export trade OF
American cotton oil to their countries
and propose to impose high duties to
protect their oil products.
The largest European consumer is
Holland, (which takes our oil and
manufactures it into good Dutch but
tee and sends it all over the world as
the famous Amsterdam product"
which sells in all the capitals of Eu-
rope at fancy prices under the i'm
I preston that it is an unauthorized
product of Dutch COWS. A ton of cot
ton seed produces about forty gallons
of oil. Seven hundred pounds of cake
meal, twenty pounds of linters, and
four hundred pounds of hulls, each
material having ready sale market
value. The meal and hulls rank high
as feeding stuffs for cattle to produce
flesh, fat and milk the meal stands at
the head of list of fifty American
feeding materials, out ranking every
other article, while the huIls also take
high rank, and when fed togethe
make an ideal cattle food.
The value of cotton seed seed meal
and the hulls for fertilizing takes high
rank. The analysis shows the meal
contains all the Embellishments,
phospnoric acid and potash largely
which constitute plant food, and the
bulls have very high per cent. of
potash and available phosporic acid.
AS the oil mills multiply and the
crushing business increases the pro-
ducts of the cotton seed are declining
each year, being at the present time
lower than ever known in the history
of the business. Kentucky cattle
feeders know the feeding value of the
meal and hulls, for they are using
large quantities of both articles the
presentyear The price of the meal