The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-09
A NEW FORD PRODUCT.
Cotton Seed Meal May he Used for
Human Food.

human Il OOu
New Orleans Pirayune.
Cotton seed, the seed Of the plant which
furnishes the Gotten fleece or staple,
product which was once thrown away as
worthless, is now enormously valuable,
adding largely 10 the proceeds of the cot
ton crop.
The oil expressed from cotton seed has
taken TO a large extent, the pace OF tnat
OF the olive. and is MT only used In large
quantities as oil, buJ mixed with lard and
ALLOW, 1t playa a most important part in
the matter of f,od products in large con-
sumption. Unitei STAGES Consul Skinner
at MAlseilltS, France. mas recently re-
ported TO the state department at Wlsh-
iIStOn the IacL that cotton seed oil. beng
cheaper and OF excellent quality. is tak.ns
the place Of That from the olive and rend-
oring the culture OF that fruit unprChtaDe.
lac SAYS.
French farmers are disposed to abandon
IN, cultivation of olive groves, as n re-
cen years the prices oDta!ned FIR the oil
nave MT been satisfactory. 1t is true
tEat there was sharp advance last year.
due 10 shortage n the crop but the
highest prices reached, mnging about SO
cents per kiIogllm (22046 pounds for
best French oil, were low, as compared
with old time prices, which 5eld firm at
so cents per kiogram. Because of this
fact and the discovery that other articles
can be grown with greater profit, The
acreage devoted to olives Is annually be-
coming less in this region, and my atten-
ton mas been called within the past few
days 10 the uprooting of 10000 trees dur
ting the last six months in tbs depart
men. alone,
1t is doubtful if olive oil will ever re-
cover its Old time Dace as many vegetable
oils notably American cotton seed oil. are
being produced in increased quantities
from year to year and are gaining in the
es imation of the public Pure olive oil
FIR edible purposes is at present practical
ly unknown in any important market. and
il Il were offered for slle 1t is doubtful
whether it would be accepted by the pub
lie, except as an inferior article, as the
average customer at the present time
prefers the neutralized taste of mixture
OF the olive and vegetable oils, and would
mistake the fruity favor of the pure juice
of the olive for an adulterated product"
Mr.. Edwin l.. Johnson of Memphis, an
analytical chemist and expert IN Gotten
seed and It's products. has an article on
tie subject In the September Forum He
gives, as follows, a tlble of the compar-
alive value as food products as shown by
chemical analysis OF 100 pounds of wheat
and Gotten seed:
Carbo-
Protein. hydrates. Fat. Value.
Wheat .,, ll.S7 1859 zoo S100
Cotton seed 1857 1Os2 2O19 1.S9
1t shows the surprising fact that, pound
t1r pound. cotton seed has a greater value
In nutritious components than has wheat.
This is seen in the amounts OF protein.
muscle and nerve making food and in the
iats contained. Cotton seed surpasses
wheat in both. Mr.. Johnson finds that
the yield per acre In bushels of cotton
seed over and above the fiber, is greater
than the yield Of wheat per acre. and 1t is
increasing. The reports OF the United
states department OF agriculture for the
season OF 1928, the latest obtalnable
when these calculations we're made place
the average Yield per acre of cotton seed
az l49 bushels, as against .34S bushels for
wheat. The comparative acreage aud
Yields OF wheat and cotton seed for that
year are given as follows:
Yield
per acre.
Acres Bushels bushels.
Wheat ..... 80. ass, 900 5ss. 900 900 13.43
Coffin seed 24319,5OO 1853. 26l 900 14.9
mat the residue OF the cotton seed.
aiter the oil Is expressed, is used extern
sNey IN the form OF meal or cake for the
- N"Ntlc Gnu OtneT 1--we STOCK, ana
is extensively shipped to foreign coun-
ules' Is fact too well known to require
more imam mere mention here: but there
Is also reason TO believe that the day will
uome when the meal will be used for hui
man 1000 and turn out TO be not only en-
tremely valuable for that purpose. but be
,p.odueed so cheaply as TO command a
IaIse consumption. Up TO the civil war
ooton seed, over and above what was re-
H ,S lor planting. was waste product,
!, snioWh away. Now its oil and residue give
!. great value, and this is going to be in
fused when the use ~ its meal for hui
sn 1000 shall he properly established
MT Johnson refers to the unjust tax
cents pound put on oleemargarine
me United Sb,tes government. ana to
.he Grout bill" pending In congress
wuIcn proposes. In tine special interest Of
IN, me northwestern dairymen. to Increase
outrageous sectionaiism aimed, a AR.