The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
IMPORTANT INVENTION
NEW PROCESS DISCOVERED FOR
 DELINTING COTTON SEED.
Great Saving of Time and Expense Claimed-Necessity for Intri- cate Machinery Done Away
 With-Chemical Solution Used to Separate Ker-
 nels From Hulls.
Washington Special to New Orleans

Washington Special to New Orleans
 Times-Democrat.
 A private demonstration was made in this city today of an invention which cotton and by eminent chemists through out the country to be the greatest strlde forward in the cotton industry since Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, in the early part ot the nineteenth century. 1t deals entirely with the cotton seed, and covers all steps in its development from the time the seed leaves the gin, after the cotton has been removed. to its pro duction into refined oil, making possible the abandonment of six separate opera tions, requiring the use of like number complete and perfect delinting and the hulling of cotton seed by secret chem ical process in twenty minutes, com- pared with the mechanical means and the the recovery of all the lint and hulls of the seed in condition for paper stock of high utility, as compared with the recovery of only g small percentage in stock under the old process; the .produc- tion of refined oil from the seed In three operations, occupying one hour ana twenty minutes, as compared with ten hours under the old method.
 The new process. it Is claimed, not only shortens the time required under the old process thousand per cent. but reduces the cost of producing the pro- duct in its final state 50 per cent.
 The seed. as 1t comes from the gin. en- cased in hulls and lint Is treated by the secret chemical solution, which opens the hulls and releases the kernels in twenty minutes. The kernels are then dried. There has heretofore been no feas- ible process for separating the cotton seed kernels from the huus and lint. it being, however, possible to partially clean the seed after ginning, leaving tufts of cotton clinging to the hulls and the hulls themselves intact. The rate of insurance on such seed, when shipped abroad, is very high, owing to the danger of spon- taneous combustion in a cargo of cotton seed in the state mentioned.
 The recently discovered process, its in- ventors claim, removes the hulls entirely and dries the kernel, or meal, of the seed, which can then be shipped as or- dinary freight, the danger from combus- ton having been eliminated by the re- moval of the hulls and attached lint and the drying of the seed
 Cotton seed imperfectl'' cleaned by the method now in use and encased in its hull brings $40 a ton in European mar kets, while under the new treatment 1t is expected that seed wil not only bring a much higher price. because of the greater net per cent. of meal, but the shipments of the product will be greatly surance and the greater facility. with which the seed can be handled and shipped. The process of separation of the kernels from the lint and hulls re- duces the weight of the seed one-half, and its bulk two-thirds for transporta- tion to oil mills, while the cost of de- nuding the kernels is reduced 50 per cent. as compared with the present prevailing methods of treating the seed by delnting and hulling bV mechanical means.