The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-13
GROWING VALUE
OF COTTON SEED.
Oil Alone Yields Forty Million
Dollars Yearly, as 100000
Barrels Are Ex-
ported.
MILLS NOW BEING ERECTED.
Gins and Mills Are All in Southern
Cotton Fields or at Nearby
Markets Output to
Be Doubled.
MILLS NOW BEING ERECTED.

Dallas, June 12-There are persons who
profess to Whit an unpleasant odor from
cotton-seed oil. but really there is nothing
to it-absolutely none to the pure OIL
With some also there is a plebeian sound
to cotton-seed oil when read in the same
column with olive oil. butter and pure lard
another grave error. Cotton is king and
cotton-seed oil is queen, with a domain
Of usefulness steadily increasing in dimen-
sions.
About 100000 a year is the revenue de-
rived from cotton-seed oil and its products,
and until about fifteen years ago cotton
seed was used as fertilizer. almost thrown
away.
Now It is manufactured into number OF
edible products. known, however, under
some other name. but fully as good. And
yet only "a per cent Of the cotton
seed produced in this country is being util-
lied, because of lack Of mills. Probably
a hundred new mills are being erected an
nually in the cotton-grow!ng States. and 1t
will not be long before the output Of cotton
seed oil is doubled. 1t is being increased
at the rate Of 10000 barrels year.
The cotton gins and oil mills are all in the
cotton fields or at the nearby markets. The
process of removing the oil from the seed
is simple: the residue is the seed cake. The
oil in its crude state is quite black. Re
filming removes the soap stock and leaves the
oil a yellowish hue. Oil made from poor
seed is possessed of bad odor but the
BY, refining II per cent OF the volume
of the oil is lost That will leave the
years product about 10000 barrels. Il Is
worth SO barrel. Eighty-five per cent OF
this years crop is prime: Cotton-seed oil
makes excellent lard. good butter and fine
olive oil, not to mention soap. SIX HUNDRED s.i
year. 1t is combined with 20 per cent
Of oleostearine. or the best beef fat.
The lard is white and 1.-THE the equal OF the
by which cotton-seed oil is bleached- There
fore. the lard is perfectly colorless; In
butter 10000 barre:s Of cotton-seed oil are
manufacture of olive oil in this country; For
other purposes 10000 barrels are used here.
s sGT saop sFasps bar neIs our home
We export $4,000 barrels of cotton-seed
oil annually, Two hundred thousand bar
fss so ove Ill Of a e
There isn't much 'mEanufaetuTing. to do do
product of fruit: cotton-seed oil is a good.
beautiful vegetable product. and rose
is just as sweet under any other name
agreeab I f He "a and foreigners have al
ways been accustomed to combine It with
Stey oil olive o They as DO the a s
though cotton-seed oil is a good mixture.
safe and healthful.
America sends to Rotterdam, the great
butter making town of Holland. 100000 bar
rels of good cotton-seed oil every year
for their oleomarearine. Europe likes 1t.
To Trieste, Austria, goes another 10000
Germany and Italy use about 10000 bar
rels each for various purposes and 200 900
barrels more go to England. South Ameri-
ca Africa and Scandinavia. Only Is per
cent of the cotton seed is oil. The other
s. per cent is the cake and it is Of about
equal value with the oil.