Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-07-19
THE COTTON SEED INDUSTRY.
Remarkable Development OF q Great
Source OF Southern Wealth.


Source OF Southern Wealth.
The census report Of industrial growth
and conditions in the United States
embodies in one Of its latest publica-
tions a valuable article by Mr.. Henry
G. Kittredge, Of Boston, on Cotton
Seed-Past and Present"
The writer summarizes the rapid in
crease of the value Of cotton seed in the
remark that it was garbage In 1860;
g. fertilizer in 1870; cattle food In 1880;
and. table food and many other things
in 1890. The production Of cotton seed
oil really had its beginning in 1870, When
about per cent. of the seed produced
was used. In 1900 the production had
increased to So per cent. According to
the census of this year the value Of
the entire cotton seed crop was 1873 per
cent. Of the total value Of the cotton
crop, including the value Of the seed,
while the value Of the products from
the manufacture Of all the seed produc-
ed would have been 2O.4 per cent. Of the
total value Of the cotton crop.
The full value of cotton seed and its
products to the agricultural and COM
mercial interests Of the south has not
yet been realized. Great as it Is now,
Il Is bound to become far greater. 1t Is
demonstrable that the present meth
ods Of producing merchantable COM
moditiesfrom cotton seed makes Its pos
sble value in a crop the size Of that OF
1900, s26,OOO,OOO greater than what was
gotten out Of 1t.
It has been proved that for feeding
and fertilizing purposes what Is left OF
the cotton seed after the oil has been
pressed out Of 1t Is of more economic
value than was the whole seed before
II was sent to the mill.
It will not be long before all the cot
ton seed in this country, except that
reserved for planting, will be worked
up in cotton seed oil mills. The value
and variety of the products prepared at
these mills Is increasing every year and
will become far greater than they are
now.
Mr.. Kittredge says:
1.-THE clean seed consists Of about 2
per cent of llnters. 4S per cent. Of hulls
free from lint, and so per cent. meats.
A ton of seed yields about 1000 pounds
Of hulls. Perhaps one Of the greatest
Developments in the business during
| t, hn nj To-
these hulls for cattle food. There have
also been developed, although not to
any great extent as yet, processes or
removing the fiber from the shell OF
the hull and making fine paper stock
from it, utilizing the bran in making
mixed cattle food"
One Of the chief uses Of cotton seed
oil now Is the manufacture Of COM
pound lard, an article more wholesome
than the best hog lard that Is made,
and much cheaper.
Another very important product Is
refined cotton seed oil which is coming
constantly into larger use. 1t is de-
licious and nutritious article that has
many excellent culinary uses.
A very large part Of our salad oils
and the oil used in packing sardines
comes from cotton seed and Is coming
in favor all the while. Cotton seed oil
Is also used very largely in the oleo-
margarine industry which has recently
been the object Of such unjust legisla-
tion by congress. and for many other
purposes, such as miner Illuminating
Oil, teinpering oil, oil for heavy tool
cutting machines. mixing with putty,