The age-herald., 1900-11-26
POTENTIALITIES OF
 THE FLEECY STAPLE

From the New Orleans Times s-Democrat.
 A company has either been, or is about to be incorporated in the State of New Jersey, with capital of $5,000,0O0, for the manu- fracture of white paper, such as is used in newspapers, from the hull of the cotton seed.
 The discovery, made we may say en passant, in Florida, that the hull of the cotton seed can be converted into paper of quite a good quality and at a small expense, Is one that will mean much, not only to the newspapers of the country, but far more also to the South. The newspapers will cer- tainly profit greatly from the discovery if all the claims made for 1t turn out to be well founded One of the claims made Is that the paper manufactured from the cot ton seed hulls is superior to the paper man ufactured either from rice or from Wooa- pulp: and a still more promising claim Is that, from cotton seed huils paper can be manufactured at one-half the cost at when it can be manufactured from wood pup And our readers will easily see that, II white paper of an equally good quality can be made from cotton seed hulls at one cent and a quarter perpound as from wood pulp at two cents and a half per pound, the saving of expense to the newspapers Will be great
 The Times Democrat some time ago,
 
 most of the newspapers of the country with the exorbitant price which 1t charged for its monopolized product, expressed a desire to join with other newspapers in giving a bonus to the person who should discover some material from which white paper could be as cheaply and satiSfactorDy manufactured as wood pulp; ana, albeit the proposition did not matariSiize, the dis covery to which we Lave been referring supplies the very desideratum of which we
 Is1,, YlX# nf RAt EAI huHs being practically inexhaustible, and the cost being only nominal paper should soon be forthcoming in unlimited quantity and at a price lower than ever it has been known heretofore.
 But while the newspapers can congratu- late themselves prospectively on the re- suits of this discovery, it is not the news papers alone which will reap beneht rom 1t: the entire South will find in it an ap- preciable aceretion to it's wealth.
 For many years the cotton itself was the only part of the staple which was cons.d- cred available for use, and which, there fore had any money value, the stalk and the seed being thrown 1way as so mueh valueless rubbish. But the stalk, known as bagasse, was later used as fuel and as fertilizer of potent properties, and so be- came of value. Then the cotton seed was taken hold of and the juice expressed from 1t became a most valuable product; and IL Is in general all over the world at the present time both in the shape or oil TOT innumerable purposes and in the shape Of oilcake for feeding cattle. The lint or cot ton fibre was the next part of the staple to have attention paid 10 it, and the value of he lint may be estimated from we'll known statement made by the late Henry w. Grady of Atlanta: This years crop, 75OO,0OO bales, will furnish 5000, OoO pounds of lint, which would clothe in cotton suit every human being on earth.
 And now another valuable product of the fieecy staple is to be added to the cotton itself the stalk the lint and the cotton seed oil. to enhance the value of the crop The hull of the cotton seed, hitherto dis pissed as waste, will now be in request for the manufacture of paper, and will, as we said, make a perceptible accretion to the wealth of the South.