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

cation OF oil mills, it could effect
an Immediate saving on South
Garollna's cotton seed crop in
IN Trelgh.-- -v-~.I, .wnas,; ,op ~
missions to middle men, improVed SVaii
quality of seed delivered at the
mill and better yields and i'm
proved quality of product there
from, of which the State might
Justly claim, say, SO cents per
ton, or $50, 900 for every hun
dred thousands tons of seed,
amounting anao to, say $3.50, 900 to
S5oo,0OO income from the seed
winch now go to market. This
Will not be in the nature of a tax
but only a part of the savings
effected by the States control.
II the commission should succeed
IN removing the distrust and
lack OF cooperation now ex-
lstlng between planters and oil
mills, and promote the exchange
OF seed for meal and hulls on
some uniform and equitable ba-
Sis much larger proportion of
the cotton seed crop would be
delivered by the planters to the
OIL mills, and much more cotton
seed meal made and used both
for fertilizer and feed with a
correspondingly larger increase
IN the present privilege tax on
fertilizer. If the State should
also inspect and guarantee the
purity and quality of cotton oil
offered for edible purposes in the
state Its consumption would be
largely Increased and an in
Spectlon tax upon oil offered for
this purpose would be both legit-
| innate and beneficial to the mills
and planters.
Taking the whole field into
consideration | think that the
State might confidently count
upon receiving a revenue of at
least a million dollars a year, ul-
mate out of the cotton seed and
its products without being felt
IN the least since it would add
ten or twenty times million
dollars to the profits of the farm
ers and the mills from the whole
crop, properly handled.
CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY.
This is the sixth article I have
written upon the general subject
of Carolina, Clemson and cotton
seed. | would like to make it
the last and turn the further dis
cusslon over 20 you South Caro-
linians yourselves, who are most
interested, holding myself in
readiness to give any further in
formation that may be desired.
expect to be here at Pendleton
only till Sept. 1st, when | return
again to Tennessee.
In these six articles I have
shown or endeavored to show
you:
1st. That South Carolina has a
mine of wealth in her cotton seed
crop if she will only bore into it
instead of hoincs Hs..tSrItvd wiCiI
What she can get on the surface.
End. That the cotton seed is
not by-product of the cotton
plant to be buried in the ground
to raise more cotton with, but
primary crop comparing favor
ably with wheat and corn in
quantity and exceeding both in
intrinsis value per bushel.
| 3rd. That all, the products of
the cotton seed, upon which of
course the market price of the
seed depends, are selling in the
worlds markets at from one-half
to one-third of their intrinsic
value from discord among the
different interests concerned,
from improper care of the seed
!, and from improper manufacture,
thereby entailing a loss upon the
south of some SIPS, 900, 600 and
upon South Carolina of some
$40, 900, 900.
4th. That State aid and control
in greater or less degree are alb
!, solutely necessary before any
thing approaching these figures
may be made out of the cotton
seed crop.