The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-01

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dard. Only off oil is
81 and no premiums are
excellnce in quality.
hence no inducement
for the Crude oil mills to make
the oil as good as they might.
One of the most intelligent oil
mill mensof Georgia told me re-
Gently that he knew of only one
mill in the State that refused to
accept cotton seed containing an
excess of moisture, which every
one knoYywill ferment and in
jurr the III long before it can be
crusheG One of the most intel
llgent crude oil men of South
Carolina, who also understands
refining, but does not refine his
oil recently admitted to me that
cooking the hull with The kernel
injured the quality of the oil but,
as he put it, since the refiners
are not in the missionary busi-
ness they will not pay him any
more for crude oil which has not
been injured in this way.
1t is useless for me or any one
else to ask the planters, ginners
and middlemen to deliver cotton
seed to the mills in as sound,
clean and dry a condition as pos
sible when the oil mills will
neither discount excessively
moist or slightly damaged seed
nor pay apremium for excellence
of quality. 1t is useless for me
Or any zone else to ask the oil
mills to make oil for edible pur-
poses oIt 9f none but sound seed,
to remase Immediately on manu-
facture the moisture and set
things from the oil which so
quickly injure it or to place it
while still hot from the presses
in alright tanks away from the
injurious action and chemical
changes of light and air when
the refiners neither discount the
oil when not injured more than
some 10 per cent and refuse to
pay a premium for excellence in
quality.
RUINOUS DISCORD.
The nature and compositions
of the cotton seed is such that
we are compelled to have the as
sistance of farmers, cattle grow
ers, ginners, oil mills, refiners
and consumers to dispose of it
to advantage, and where all of
these without exception are
working at cross purposes, often
actively hostile to each other,
the result is confusion, distrust,
low prices and products which
are made in such a way as to
prejudice the consumer against
them or else accept them only
when he dan get them far below
their intrinsic value.
The net result of all this dis
cord and misunderstanding is
that the south is losing every
year some $125, 900, 900 on it's cot
ton seed crop and the State of
South Carolina some $40, 900, 900.
If all the diverse interests that
are needed to market the cotton
seed crop could be brought to
work intelligently and actively
together each one could make
double the profit it is now MAX
ing and the cotton seed crop
could be made to bring it's full
value. The greatest sufferer
from all this discord is unques-
tionably the State, and the only
power in my humble judgment
which can put an end to it is the
State. Millions of value in the
cotton seed are lost outright to
the State, vanished into the air
with no benefit to anyone. Mil
lions more which the State should
have go now to northern and
western States and foreign coun-
tries.
ALL NATIONS LAUGHING AT THE
SOUTH.
There is not an intelligent
northerner or Westerner, Eng
lishman. German, Frenchman,
Austrian, Dane or Dutchman
who is at all familiar with meth
ods of cotton seed handling and
manufacture in the south who is
not amazed at the stupidity and
folly of our people in ignoring
the simplest principles of practi-
cal and political economy in refer
anno To tho nott0n Good and nor