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

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and European countries. South
Carolina needs all the revenue
from these other states that she
can possibly get from her cotton
seed crop and it's valuable prod
ucts which they are now getting
from us so far below their real
value.
If it so happens that the work
and study of my life in this one
product have plaoednae IN much
the same position toward the en-
tire State of South Carolina at
this present time as / was some
years ago toward Company G., and
if | can show her how to draw her
much needed revenue from other
and much richer states, if / can
help to prevent or cure some of
the diseases or troubles in her
economic condition and place her
upon a safer and surer road to
wealth, / trust she will not deem
it presumption in me to offer my
help.
Now, good people of South Car
olina, have you no industrial cap
tain able and strong enough to
take'u up this work and will you not
let me for a short space be his
right hand man, his quartermas-
ter sergeant, as it were, and with
all due respect to his high posi-
tion show him what his men, the
people of South Carolina, need
most for their economic welfare
at the present time? cannot
help you with my hands or my
presence, as 1 did your boys some
years ago, for my home is now
in my native State, but if she
will undertake this thing in earn
est I will pledge to South Caro-
lima all the information and
knowledge / have acquired dur
ing more than 20 years. every
thing of value / possess in refer
erence to the cotton seed without
hope or expectation of reward,
for South Carolina has already
given me that which 1 value
more than 1 do my life, and my
debt of gratitude to her is already
great.
WHY THE COTTON SEED NEEDS
STATE AID AND CONTROL.
promised in my last letter to
show you in this why the cotton
seed needs State aid and control.
You have already learned that
your cattle-growing industry has
declined to so low an ebb that it's
recovery and full development
without the fostering hand of the
State will be exceedingly slow
and difficult.
You have already learned that
the slight esteem in which you
hold cotton oil is due to the fact
that not one of you has ever seen
any cotton oil made as freely and
as carefully as the Filipino makes
his cocoanut oil.
You have already learned that
unless the several products from
the seed are made better, and
with more relation to the high
priced uses for them, that your
revenue from the cotton seed
crop cannot be large.
Why are they not made better?
You have a right to know and
without this knowledge no prog
ress is possible. Therefore, cost
me what it may, you shall know
the plain unvarnished truth.
Two notoriously bad trade GUS
toms are chiefly responsible for
this. The first of these is the
fact that the oil mills everywhere
from North Carolina to Texas
buy cotton seed, good, bad and
Indifferent, provided they be not
too bad, at a uniform price per
ton with no grading or selection
worthy of the name.
There is hence no inducement
for the planter, ginner and mid
dleman to take the same care of
cotton seed, which is a much
more perishable product than
wheat, that is taken of wheat
which is heavily discounted by
the Touring mills for any inferi-
ority in quality. The second OF
these is that the refiners upon
whom the burden of finding q
market for some 95 per cent o1
the oil falls, buy cotton oil, good
bad and Indifferent, provided il
is not too bad, at uniform price
per gallon. They only require
that crude cotton oil shall no.
lose more than 9 per cent of its
weight in refining, shall be free