The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-11
OIL FROM COTTON SEED
fe'stShurg Nan inysaie! The Method Of
PisgaTiag the Seed foI Pressure.
t4piO GROWTH OF. THE MANUFACTURE

=: WAS First Used us an Adulf Grant,
Kat Tins Siucr e:ccosne valuable
gag Purposes 10 Wh,c!, other More
s;"si'. Oils We're Previously Put
Something ~ cotton Seed Cake.
re anniversary supplement OF the Oil.
= ii. a:id Drug Reporter published in
~ &, YORK by William O. Allison No 81
: .l!i:in street, Is one Of the most com
!l.r:r publications OF Its kind ever issued.
!, takes up and reviews the history OF
'.st!: oil manufactured, together with
T:any leading drl,Es. It's history OF cot
t"a seed oil is extremely Interesting.
In. article is rs follows:
III on" or the earliest issues Of the Re-
porter ihcrc appeared the following ex-
t:aci. credited TO Il New Orleans paper,
Sn which it had been copied from the
Niles Register OF 1929:
PETERSBURG INVENTOR
Cotton seed yields considerable por-
lion OF excellent oil. The difficulty Of
expressing 1t, in consequence Of the
quantity and absorbing Quality Of the
intcGument Of the kernel has been so
great that heretofore no great quantity
OF the Oil has been made. We are happy
70 announce that a highly respected gen
tleman Of Petersburg, Va, has invented
4 machine by which the seed is com
pteteiy hulled and prepared for the easy
expression Of Its oil. The Importance
or this invention to the Southern coun-
try may be appreciated from the fact
mat Inc inventor Is erecting a cotton
gin, and will be shortly prepared to gin
cotton FOR the seed only. This inyen-
ton, as we understand It, consists of
u granite cylinder, revolving within CON
FeN pieces OF the same substance faced
ana placed in Il peculiar manner. A
hopper over the stone supplies the seed.
~ Wire sieve under 1t separates the hull
from the kernel. Dropping through q
current OF air from wind fan, It Is
deliVered clean md ready for the press.
ms machine Will probably rank In the
country second only to Whitney's gin.
About twenty-five years ago DR.. George
hunter, chemist and druggist OF Phila-
delphia. having made some experiments
on the oil Of cotton seed, thought it
worth while to remove to New Orleans,
"here he carried two steam engines,
purchased from Oliver Evans, the one
ler the purpose Of grinding cotton seed.
he dld not find the place 50 we'll suited
10 MS purposes, as he expected, and did
nor set up his mandatory. Aftcrward,
about 1918. Colonel Clark, an Ingenious
inventor. made some experiments in
lamps. Oil OF cotton seed is selling at
providence, Il. l., at so cents per gallon"
ms Is Tho first reference we find any
Wnere TO cotton seed OIL, and the con
t,''NiiiS' S%H>IhCc 81 the paragraph, to
me effect t!tat tic oil is selling in Proyi-
'lcnce. can not be considered as inlIcat-
lag thar the industry was then on q
commercial scale. Indeed, SO little was
Enown OF II rs late as 1852 that Mr.. a.
y. Maginnis. or Now Orleans, who was
e. mat time manufactures Of linseed
o.. crushed small amount Of cotton
seed cXeprimentally In his mill, the oil
being intended for mericinnl use and
selling at about 81 per gallon. 1t was
uncut 1885. we believe. that it's manufac-
ture was established by the Union Oil
company at Providence, on what was
ticn regarded probably as 4 commercial
scale 1 m
The company received its seed direct
from the South. and the keen foresight
o. us manager laid the foundation for
the extensive business which that cor
pcration has since conducted. and which
has been Il prominent factor in the ex-
tension Of The entire industry During
the war the manufacture Of cotton seed
On was undertaken at this port among
ne me llfst crushes being the Stonewall
Oll company and the Goodkind Bros
me Gianmorsan company We're recelv-
ers and retiners and used the product
largely IN the manufacture OF soap. II
was not until some time after the close
OF the war that cotton seed oil became
merce, although the number of mills ha q
increased to about thirty at the time this
paper was started. the increase having
been enirely in the South, or at interior
points near the cotton belt.
USED AS AN ADULTERANT.
AT that time the use Of cotton seed oil
was Chiefly as an adulterant, and, ex-
cept as soapmaking material, it had
practically no outlet Of its own unasso-
ciated with other oils. Between 1870 and
1880 the number of mills more than
doubled. and like ratio of increase was
maintained through the next decade,
while thus far In the 90s the multipica-
ton Of mills has been even more rapid
!he formation OF the American Cotton
vi company In 1854, and the subsequent
accession to its ranks seems to have
rather stlmuia ted than checked competi-
ZION, though the industry has had dur
Ing all this time recurring years Of great
prosperity, due to the enormous de-
mands Of its products. which have been