The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-11-24
Tie Value of Cotton Seed.

Cotton IS way dOWn-nVe Genus t
but the blowers find in 1T nc e
reason for dependency, no cause C
for complaint. The crop was made f
so cheap, say these fellows with v
understandings that will not I'M i
derstand. They, say it IS still q
"King Cotton" In North Caro- ,
lima many farmers are so disheart- {
ened they are not picking the crop. '
We think this unwise, as even five {
cents is better than nothing. Rut {
it is pitiful to see protection toot-
ers blowing over the fine outlook {
for cotton. The fellow in the No
achic deluge thought it was only a
"small shower after all" when he
had climbed to the top of the high
est limb on the highest tree on the
highest mountain, and standing
on tip-toe, the mighty flood had
reached his mouth. So the con-
tinued low price of cotton is only
trife, q mere passing ''shower.'
The value of the cotton seed is
being better understood, and it
helps to save many farmer from
bankruptcy from growing the cot
ton. 1t rssed to be regarded as of
but little value, but the wiser
knowledge has come, and now it is
utilized with no little profit. Cot
ton seed oil mills are all over the
South anu th6farmers are blessed.
Like in everything else that ac-
cursed thing, a devouring trust,
has been formed and cotton seed
oil trust attracts the greedy spec
ulators as do the pestiferous to-
bacco trust, and the hundred other
schemes for plumber, Not only is
the seed profitable for oil, but it
makes 1ine meal for stock, and the
hulls make good food for stock al
so. Salad oils, compound lard
and toothsome butterine are all
made now of the cotton seeds.
A writer in the Chattanooga
Tradesman, if his enthusiasm does
not warp his judgment, gives the
; following impressive statement.
! "Steadily, slowly, but surely,
the whole face of the Southern
country, its crops, its methods of
1 farming, it's manufactures are
changing always for the better and
5 chiefly due to the direct and indi-
:, rect influence and action of the
/ cotton seed. The total weight OF
: cotton seed products manufactured
= today is fully equal to half the
< weight of the cotton crop, while
10 the total cotton seed raised il
10 twice that of the cotton, and al
Is of this 10000, 100000 pounds O.
Ii cotton seed, except q very small
e percentage, needed for planting
1t will probably some day pass thro
" the rapid hullers, the huge roller
lie and the powerful hydraulic presse
N of the Southern oil mills. Tha
9 time would soon be at hand if OH
Us unreasonably prejudiced America
In people would but learn the rea
~ merit and intrinsic value of tn
rs products of the cotton seed, an
q provide the necessary market fc
So them. An economic revolution
fairly under way at the South wit
only one-fourth of the cotton see
No. manufactured. How much mo-
may be expected when the oth'
-. three fourths are made available?
,da The thing for North Carolir
.1a planters to do is to: l. Grow tt
"a cotton on improved lands; 2,
H. make cotton at the lowest pric
90 using all industry; 3, to learn
-, utilize the seeds in all possib
ways and with the utmost care al
intelligence. In this way perha
III the cotton growers can better COZ
- pete with the low priced India &C
ton, and contend against the she
cod pers, spectators and devouri
trusts.
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