The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-08-30
VALUE or COTTON SEED
Cotfea Seed Caanoi Lacrosse n Price
BeCaaSe Lint Goes Up.

farm product.
Every dollar added to the value of
cotton seed meal increases the farm
value of cotton seed. Extending
the markets for cotton oil or the
meal will add value 10 cotton seed
Cotton seed cannot increase in price
merely because lint goes up. Cot
ton seed must stand or fall upon the
recognized merits of its products.
cotton oil, cotton seed meal, cotton
seed bulls and linters. Farm and
| Ranch will have more to say of oil
mill manipulation of the seed for
| increase in values in a subsequent
article.
/ Cotton seed had no market value
until the oil mills made the products
of cotton seed commercial articles.
1t must then follow as might the
day" that farm values of cotton
seed will rise or fall with the prices
OF cotton seed products. Let us see
If this be true of prevailing values.
/ All persons familiar with the
/ South in 1880 will recall the low
value of cotton seed. In many re-
gions of the South seed had no
value Up to that year the few oil
mills ia operation had found only
an export market for the meal,
while the bulls were used as fuel.
( Cotton seed sold for 81 30 to S. per
ton. 1t was suddenly discovered
/ that Southern cotton seed oil could
be compounded with Western hog
lard to produce a substitute for lard.
Then followed the use of this oil in
packing imported sardines and its
use in artificial butter. Oil mills
multiplied and the price of cotton
seed grew and grew until il is now
an important branch of the cotton
industry.
Farm and Ranch desires to show
clearly the value OF cotton seed meal
because the meal is such an impor
tant part of cotton seed Cotton
seed meal represents 3 per cent of
the total value of cotton seed. The
oil Of cotton seed brings oue-half of
all money received for the seed the
bulls represented rs per cent while
linters are worth only Az per cent
of what the seed products will bring.
There were 1850, 900 tons of seed
crushed in 1900, worth Sl3, 600 600.
II ad the total cotton seed crop been
crushed for oil and meal it would
have sold for ST, 800 900.
But the magnitude Of the farm in
terest is not restricted TO the figures
quoted The oil mills can do much
to enhance or lend value to cotton
seed. The campaign in favor of
higher prices for lint cotton, begun
two years since and carried forward
with system by powerful agencies
whose interests are closly allied with
the fate OF cotton growing, is fresh
in the minds of many and is even
now before the eyes OF some who
~ nv = q IANhi view Va AAS STU AA A'h
Cotton values go upward under
these organized influences, The
United States government rs help
ing The time was ripe for the
movement because America is now
spinning more cotton that any
other country and had the right Ia
control the worlds cotton markets
with cotton seed meal and the oil
there Is just now the same oppor-
tuuity which should be taken at its
flood
One Of the tirst things 20 be done |
: 20 secure the aid and cooperation |
~ the National Department Of Az
riculture Uncle sam moves things |
not only here, but ia the worlds |
markets tits - has interest tu |
aid the cotton grower and the cotton |
seed crushsr iu the campaign for |
American control OF the cotton seed |
products markets. The govern |
meut helps those wto help them
selves or try Ca DO So. These cot. |
tDu interests are powerful, precs-
dents have been established. tho /
timo Is ripe FOR marked increase ia
domestic consumption ~ cotton seed
meal aud cotton seed aii.