The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-11-25
supply of crude potash, in which the
hulls are rich, was taken away when
these ashes were no longer obtalna-

hulls are rich, was taken away when
these ashes were no longer obtalna-
BILE
In many States, particularly Texas,
many thousand head of cattle are an.
! nual|y fed, and with the addition OF
cotton seed meal are fattend upon
cotton seed hulls. Much of the Chi
cago dressed beef shipped all over
the country in refrigerator cars is
simply concentrated cotton seed
hulls. The price at which hulls sell
is far below their intrinsic value as a
feed stuff and varies from 81 80 to
SIS per ton at the mills, though as
high as $40 per ton has been paid for
it in some cases when the demand
Unexpectedly exceeded the supply,
when the mills were not running,
and this is about it's real value. l
believe that every dairy in or about
the cities, Ike Memphis, Atlanta or
New Orleans. is now feeding its
mich Gowns on cotton seed hulls
Competent chemists figure that 80
per cent of the value of the bulls is
available for fertilizer after being
used for feed. Hulls are little known
or used outside the South, but there
is new enterprise at Memphis, the
Tennessee Fiber Company, working
under letters patent, that Is success
fully taking the hulls from the oil
mills and concentrating, in more
suitable for shipment, the nutritious
portion of the hulls, which is termed
"cotton seed bran,' and separating
the lint for use of paper makers and
packers, which is turned out in small
compressed bales
Having now shown what cotton
seed hulls really are, their value,
their great actual and numerous pos
sible production, we are prepared to
consider the. merits of this article as
a wealth producer. 1t will first be
necessary to say something in regard
to the location of the cotton oil mills.
Though some oF the large cities, like
Memphis, Atlanta, Houston. New
Orleans, have more than one mill
each, they are. as rule, very wide
ly distributed over the Southern
States, and generally in the towns
which vary in population from $500
up The average price at which cot
ton seed hulls can be obtained at the
mills is about 1925 per ton Their
intrinsic value as feeding stuff is
about $40, say So. The average
freight from the the South to the
New England and Middle States is
about Sc per ton. 1t could hardly
be possible, therefore, unless under
exceptional circumstances. to use
cotton seed hulls in their ordinary
form outside the South.
From the fact that the oil mills are
located in the towns and cities, and
that the lands near them have been
cultivated longer and more closely
than those at distance, thus being
NOR, in need of fertilizers, it is evil
dent that the most profitable use to
be made of the hu'ls is by farmers or
stock raisers ON the lands near the
oil mills. A farmer. therefore, loca
ted on land which needs fertilizing,
near an oil mill, who also raises cattle
or keeps dairy, and who has mark.
ct ready to his hand for his farm
products, is prepared to make an as
tonishing profit upon this article
Estimating the cost of freighting to
the farm at IS cents per ton, the
average cost of the bulls at tine mills
at So 25 per ton, and the intrinsic
value of tue hulIs az compared with
other feed stuffs or fertilizers as only
So per ton, the farmer will makae pro
fit of 81 per ton on every ton Of hulls
he consumes. If we add to this 80 per
cent of the intrinsic value. which per.
centsge the chemists allow for it
after feeding, he would have $ll per
ton as the total profit, or 81 so per
ton as the net profit over aud above
other feeding stufs and fertilizers. 1t
is difficult to conceive of any situa
ton in which farmer could be
placed in popuious territory in the
United States where he starts cut
with conditions so favorable to sue
cess, or where he has finer oppor-
tunity of producing wealth from
using All undervalned product which
can be had in practically unlimi
ted quantity Add to this that such
lands as have been described can be
had at very low price, because of
their more or less worn condition and
also because of the present general
depreciation in real estate, the pro
bability of large profit from the ell
richment of the land, and the unearn-
ed increment from the probably rapid