The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03

( hnds employment. The value Of the lint
VIII range between the cost Of 5uts butts.
which is now s. per ton. and the cost OF
oil mill linters worth now ~ cents per
Z pound and conservative estimate OF the
I value OF the lint would be IA cents per
pound At this price the lint recovered
would yield from $50 20 $500 per ton OF
seed cleaned. This would pay for and
possibly leave small margin besides.
The main profit Is. however, obtained
from the appreciation Of the seed after IL
is polished Crude. green or upland cot
ton seed can be bought and laid down in
Savannah for SO per ton. BY polishing the
seed loses Is per cent 70
three hundred pounds in weight. the
remaining 100 pounds are worth 50 per
ton IN Liverpool, OF about $3.50 to $500
allowing for freight. shipping, etc, the
Afv9 pounds would net about SIS or leave
q net gain of $ per ton OF crude seed.
gain Of s. per ton, together with $3.50
recovered in lint. means a great deal to
I the south and to the cotton planter, on
account or the immense annual production
OF seed, amounting to 4.5oo 30 tons, and the
recovery Of lint or advance in price Of
si-0 a ton would aggregate 2o,000.0oO If
the machine was in universal use. There
Is no doubt that the very moment cotton
seed becomes. or Ia made an exportable
commodity, a keen competition in pur-
CHASING the seed is bound 10 result sooner
or later, and the planter VIII be ultimately
benefited thereby.
The machine is not in an experimental
stage, as the seed which it has cleaned
has been shipped to Hull, England. and
the returns were extremely satisfactory.
The cotton seed used in England comes
principally from Egypt and from the Sea
ISLANDS, and Is worth. in Hull or Liverpool
so TO S26 per ton Of 2,20 pounds. Tests
OF the relative value Of the American up
land and Egyptian cotton seed show that,
subjected to the same treatment, the clean
American upland seed contains largely
more oil, more albuminous substances,
more mucilage sugar and digestible fiber,
and less woody and indigestible substance
than the Egyptian seed. The only reason
that the Egyptian seed now brings the
higher price in England Is that fiber can
easily be removed from It by the ordinary
cotton gin and no short fiber adheres
to the seed. This seed can, therefore, be
! shipped like ordinary grain, while the
American seed though intrinsicaly the
more valuable, is disabled from such ship
ment by reason of the fiber. The result is
that, instead of selling in England at $25
to $26 ton, the American seed is confined
to the home market, where 1t brings only
$ to so per ton.
The reason why the English manufac-
turers are able to pay as much more for
seed and still compete with the American
mills Is seen in consideration of the diff
ference between the two processes in the
manufacture of the Oil The English mills
grind and press the kernel and hull of the
seed together and obtain from 1900 pounds
of clean seed $50 pounds. or forty-eight
gallons, of oil, and 500 pounds OF oil
cake, the remaining forty pounds repre-
senting about the amount of dust and
dirt removed.
On the other hand, tae American mills,
having only the lint covered seed for
treatment, has been compelled to confine
themselves to decortication, a process by
which the hull, with the short cotton fiber
attached, is removed from the kernel, and
the kernel alone is used in the manufac-
ture of oil and oil cake. the bulk becoming
almost entirely waste product. From the
use of the kernel alone the American mill
obtains about $50 pounds, or about thirty
FIVE gallons of oil and about 700 to $50
pounds of oil cake from a ton of seed. as
| against forty-eight gallons of oil and 1000
pounds of oil cake, obtained by the English
manufacturer. The English manufacturer
is thus enabled to pay for the lintless seed
| fully twice as much as is the American
manufacturer for the lint covered seed,
| and still carry on a successful compe-
| tition in the markets Of the world.
Another object which the Introduction
| of these machines is expected to accom-
| plish is the ultimate use of the English
method of the manufacture of cotton seed
oil in this country. There is no doubt but
that, at an early date, the entire cotton
| seed product of this country will be con-
! verted and it's utilities appropriated as
| fully as is the cotton fiber product. The
statistics of the question show that the
| demand for cotton seed oil and oil cake in
| the markets of the world is largely on
the increase and that it's uses for food
for man and beast and for fertilizers are
so numerous, that all the available supply
will be consumed and the industry will
become rapidly growing one.
The establishment of this plant in Sa-
vannah is only the beginning of an in
dustry that promises to become as famous
as has that of making cotton seed oil
The coast cites will be selected for the
establishment of such plants, and especi-
ally those of the cotton growing section
as it is expected that for some time the
bulk of the cleaned seed will be shipped
abroad. 1t Is the intention of the com
pany, however. to put up mills along with
their plants for the manufacture of oil
and oil cake after the English method, the
meaning of which can readily be seen
when the difference in the price of seed
in this country and delivered in England
is taken into consideration. An oil mill
in Savannah, making oil by the English
method, could obtain its raw material S1I
per ton less than the English mills now
pay for the Egyptian seed, which is an
inferior seed to the cleaned upland seed
of this country. Thus there is a possibil-
ity that English competition in the oil
market may become thing of the past
and that America may ultimately control
this industry entirely, as she has sue
ceeded in doing in other cases.