The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16
ANOTHER PHASE IN OIL MILLING.
The Effect of Mr.. Bugg's DeIintinE
Process.

Process.
There are but three cotton seed oil mills
in tho United States which are operated
on the English plan, crushing hulls and
meat together These mills use exclusively
sea island or black seed cotton, which is
practically the same as Egyptian cotton
seed
The nearest of these mills is that at
Blackshear, Pierce county. 1t is in very
fertile district, where sea island cotton is
exclusively planted. Both the soil and
climate are well adapted for profitable
production of sea island cotton. Black
shear shipping $500 bags of long staple cot
ton a year a potion cotton seed oil mill
is located there and in order to ascertain
the relative value Of the English and
American method of milling, representa-
tive of the Morning News saw Mr.. A. =.
Brantley, president of the A. p. Brantley
Company, owner of the mill. Mr.. Brant-
ley says:
1--WE obtain about forty gallons Of oil to
the ton of seed We use only black seed.
The yield of oil cake averages 1,500 pounds
to the ton against $50 pounds claimed by
the green seed mills. The oil Is some
what darker. and 1t is more expensive to
as upland cotton oil. 1t sells for about
l cent per gallon less"
THE value of the cake for fertilizers"
Mr.. Brantley says, lis relatively the same
as that Of green seed meal. In proportion
to the nitrogen 1t contains, the upland
seed meal has per cent of ammonia form
ers, while our meal has 6 per cent. TO this,
however, should be added the greater con-
tents of potash and phosphoric acid,
which bring it's value to within 81 or 81
per ton Of decorticated oil cake. AS cat
tie food sea island or undecorticsted cot
ton seed meal is in every respect superior
to decorticated oil cake, and Is about the
same as linseed oil cake which is recog-
nized as the best and the highest priced
oil cake in the markets of the world.
One cake contains twice as much
starch and less cdl and albuminous COM
pounds 1t is consequently easier to di-
igest as It's oh emical composition is nearly
the same as that of corn. while 1t Is much
more nutritive Decorticated meal can
only be fed very sparingly with a large
quantity of other food or surfeit and in
digestion will ensue, while undecortiolted
meal can be fed with impunity in large
quantities This fact is well demon
strated by the great quantities Of oil cake
sold by us, and which is consumed by
turpentine and timber mon, who find that
our meal is by far the cheapest and most
nutritious food they can obtain, and is
well adapted for feeding mules. doing
tho hardest kind of work. Upland cotton
seed was sold last season at an average
price Of $3.50 (. o. b. cars. as II had no op-
position. We had to pay for sea island
az least $3.50 per ton (. o. b. cars, as
there was a keen competition, and az this
price IT was within 81 per ton of what
Il would net II exported to England As
a rule. we have been compelled TO ray
from q per cent. 20 30 per cent. more for
sea island than for upland seed. yet we
have been fairly successful, and have
earned dividends on our investment
I'VE find that the fertilizers we manu-
facture from our meal have gradually
driven the fertilizers made from decorti-
Gated meal out Of our section. -Four years
ago we sold probably one-tenth of the
amount Of fertilizers used in this terri
tory This year we have sold nine-tenths
Of all fertilizers used in Pierce county.
Our meal is ccarser and as II contains
only one-third as much oil. it mixes to
better advantage with acid phosphates
and other ingredients used I'm the manu-
facture of fertilizers, and the results are
better in every way on the growing crop,
as experience has shown.