The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-17

with oil at its present price. than they
were able to pay several years ago
when oil was at the same price as to-
day. These are facts well known to
ali Intelligent, up-to-date mill men,
and can be demonstrated any time.
This law would be impeding prog
ress, and would throw back the cot
ton seed oil mill interests in North
Carolina fifteen years. Today we
are getting out of the seed what five
wears ago was sent to the hull pile,
and thus using this we are enabled
to give from one to two dollars more
per ton for seed. But by guarantee
ing eight per cent ammonia we must
send a large per cent of the meal TO
the hull pile. This law would give
death blow to the cotton seed meal
industry in this State. We should
have to change our machinery. and
lose the most profitable part of the
seed. During the past two years the
oil mills have made no profit. but all
we want now from you farmers, |
suggest that If you want an eight per
cent meal that you let it be called
preferred or some othe name, but
don't force those who can't make ii
out of the business by requiring them
to be impossible
Mr. Ives said his town, New Bern.
has the only mill in the State con-
troled entirely by North Carolina cap
ital His mill used seed grown near
the water. and that it would be iul-
possible for him to make eight per
cent ammonia meal.
Mr.. Braswell favored the eight per
cent law. He said that any mill OPP
Grated naturally could produce this
per cent and suggested that in cases
where this was not the case that adul-
teration was the cause of it. He de-
cared it all to be question of prepa-
ration, settled by scientific adjust
ment of separation. His interests, he
said. were identical with those Of the
farmers. who owned mis- two mills
He told the committee that the Legis-
lature would better husband the oil
mill industry in its Independent form,
ana this, toe, would be assisting it,
Mr.. Z. /. Daughtridge, who was
member of the House two years ago,
and chairman of the Agricultural
Committee. He said that he knows
very little of the cotton seed meal
industry but that he is q manufac
turer Of it, and can guarantee every
sack IF meal he places on the market
to contain. eight per cent of amonia.
Mr. BrasweI suggested that, if tire
State ALLOW seven aad a half per cent
amonia meal 10 be made, thai it Do
called cow-fecd, but that eight per
cent 'neai ne th@ standard.
Chairman Graham asked State
Chemist Kilgore to make few re-
marks on the subject, and Mr.. Kill
gore delivered the following state
ment.
There has been a decrease in the
grade of cotton seed meal during the
last four or FIVE years. OF thirty
samples analized in 1900. eighteen
"a; ;rrl4
cent OF ammonia, and none contained
ess than per cent. In 1901 only
one sample contained less than eight
per cent Since that year there has
been an increasing number each year
less than eight per cent
and Il few less than seven. In the
I've years. two-thirds OF the samples
have contained eight per cent and
over of ammonia. These analyses
show that there has been a decrease
in the grade of cotton seed meal put
on our maret. | have been given to
understand by considerable number
of manufacturers that there mas been
a change in the machinery now gen.
orally employed, and which allows
more hulls to go along with the ker-
nels. this obtaining a larger tota!
amount of kernels from a ton Of seed
than when more complete separa ton
VI l'uiIS anu htIHtiS WAS attempted.
1T is also claimed that the huls
thus entering with the kernels en-
ables a larger extraction of oil to be
obtained. This would to some extent
at least account for the lower grade
Of meal"
while the manufacturer obtains
from two to four more gallons OF oil
by the increase of hulIs valued I'll
from fifty cents to one dollar the
farer loses not less than one dollar
and Il half for each one half per cent
oof ammonia the meal does not OBJ
tain.
These two phases of the question
should. in my Judgment, be so ad-
iusted as to be nearly fair as posi-
bic to both parties concerned in the
transaction"
At the conclusion Of M. Kilgores !
Mr. Mclean. Of Scot and !
county, moved that the committee I'D |
jouln and continue the hearing after |
the mill men had been given an op- !
portunity TO prepare their side Of
the case.
Chairman Graham. then announced |
hat the Joint committee meeting was |
adjourned 10 meet again to decide /
upon the bill next Monday afternoon. /
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