The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-12-31
GOOD NEWS FOR FARMERS,
COTTOW SEEIj RENDERED. VASTLY
MORE VayUAUYE
MR. Al. J. L. Hoard rnll1s OF IL Discovery for
Which Much 10 Claimed -Uotton Seed
TO bc Created Chemically
Rather than by MA.
ehinory.
News and Courier, 2Sth. !

Washington, d. G., arrived in the
clty day or two ago for tho pur-
poso Of ncquainting tho Southern
people with the discovery or invcu.
tion, just perfected at the National
Capital, which, he thinks, promises
to completely revolntionixe the cot
! ton aeed oil industry. It is under
stood that the present process for the
turning out of cotton seed oil re-
quires the uso Of six different ma
chimes. The McFarlane Reinohl in
vention relating to treating cotton
seed, and for which q patent WAS up.
piled for ten days ago, according to
q statement made yesterday by Mr.
Heard to q Reporter for The News
and Courier, will do away with these
ak pieces of machinery altogether.
The seeds are placed in large vat
containing certain chemical solution,
and after lapse of twenty minutes
the hulls pop open and float on the
surface, while the dsnuded kernels
fall to the bottom Of tho vat.
United States Chemist Wylie, of
the department of agriculture, has
pronounced this discovery as among
the most wonderful Of modern times.
He has studied the matter carefully
and he secs in it speedy change
from the ola-time methods of pro.
duoing cotton seed oil. Congress-
man Livingston, Of Georgia, is inter
ested in the scheme. He has always
had the welfare Of the Southern
farmer at heart and he believes that
this invention will result in great
benefit to them in more ways than
one. BY the use Of the machine for
senarating the cotton seed kernels
from the hulls and lint the small
percentage of kernols which adhere
to the hulls after they have been
opened, and the kernels which be-.
come entangled in the lint or fibre,
are recovered, and the lint partially
dried and rendered fluffy. The fol-
lowing machines now required are
disoarded: Machine for cleaning
seed Of sand, machine for removing
bolls, pieces Of wood, etc, magnetic
machine for removing iron nails, etc.,
delinting machine, hulling machine
and reel for separating meats from
the hulls. In addition to the vat al
ready mentioned q machine is utilized
for drying the kernels when they are
to be transported distance to an oil
mill, or when the oil is to be extracted
Immediately. The seed are taken d.
rectly from the vat to the crushing
rolls, the mash is heated and the oil
extracted in the usual way. 1t may
then be refined or shipped as crude
oil. The crushing rolla now in use
are adapted for crushing the seed. it.
"The product of these processes"
said MIR. Heard, "namely, dried COT
ton seed kernels, reduces the weight
one-half and the bulk two. thirds for
transportation to oil mills, while the
cost Of denuding tho kernels Is re-
duced nearly, if not fully, so per cent.
as compared to the present prevail
ing practice of treating the seed by
dclinting and hulling the seed by
mechanical means. 1t also leaves
the hulls and the lint in condition
for paper stock of a worry high qusl-
ity. This stock is worth from one to
two cents per. pound, while the ker-
nels are in condition for reduction to
meal for extracting oil. In both
these processes the chemical solution
may be used repeatedly by maintain
ing it's strength.
"Now in regard to extracting oil
from cotton seed, the first process of
treating cotton seed by the chemical
solution is carried on two steps fur
thor, and the oil extracted therefrom
in three steps or operations, as against
ten steps under the present most ap.
proved methods known to the art, ee
| defined by D. A. Tompkins in GOT,
ton and Cotton Oil,' page 208. The
! ol' extracted fro.r $ho l;arusl - "a.
rrsgnated With tne c:epncai usei TO,
denuding tho seed and serves as @
! factor in the first step of refining the