The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-12-07
OUR OIL e
ALARsMss sn,sCgERs. OLIVE GI.ow
IERs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The Industry Can Increase the aouth's
Production Over Fifty Mil.
lion Dollars Per Annum

.. w ANY 0hAt ...-#
lion Dollars Per Annum
South CarOlina's oil mills wore
nover more prosperous" said one of
the leading cotton seed crushers of tho
state to . Columbia Record nlan 70.
gently. THE same thing night be
aaid," he added, "of tho mills through
out the South"
Good time for tho mills means tre.
mondous enhancement OF the wealth,
production Of the community, and h 8
statement with be Welcomed according
ly. No industry in the South smounts
&c moro and ia talked about leas. just
how vital tho business 10 to Southern
prosperity may be realized from a
summary Of she information remain
Ing with The Record man after q long
conversation with the crusher quot.
cd.
There 2rs." he ssid, about eight
hundred cotton seed oil mills oud cot.
ton oil reftneries located in the South.
OF theae, about seventy re are own
cd by Eastern, Northern and Western
stockholders. One company, 3 ma,
jorlty Of whoEe stockholders, and all
of WhoBe executive officers, are South.
ern mon, owns about ninety plants.
The balance, over six hundred, are
owned by looal people, many thou.
sands of wh0m are farmers.
ITO the South, therefore, belongs
alarge part Of the developments OF this
wonderful industry, and tho profits,
when any are made, are divided
among thu people who either produces
the cotton, or whose interests are
Identified with those Of tho cotton
growor.
III Ia the only manufacturing in
dustry that neither asks o receives
national or state protection or cub.
tor years returned to tho farmers from.
rs to 100 per cent. Of tho gross value
OF It's prodnots after paying cash for
the raw material and the cost Of pro
duotion. 10 feeds both rnan and beast
and helps TO olothe tho human faulty.
II is tho single American industry
that has survived foreign and dones
tic opposition without 'squealing, and
yet as had, or now Las tho olive grow
ers Of Europe and California, the
American mEat packers and The but
Ger makers Of the West crying around
their government for %pIotoctior
against this young giant. Its record
Is brilliant with good decdB and It,;
work is only just beginning. Its pro
meters and those who have given years
to It's developments, may VOL be PROUD
OF It's achievements, and remembering
the difficulties ii has overcome. and
she bright future before 1t, they car
ignore the few opponents that are
still left at home and abroad, az they
out no more figure now than the h1 Oh
tho Okla horn"
Discussing the vslue OF cotton seed,
formerly a waste product, he said thoy
are now uRed,, principally, FOR plant.
Ing, milling, feeding stock or fertil;z
Ing crops.
About eight par cent. OF the ssel
CROP" he stated, rs needed TO-
planting purposes, amounting, on the
acreage Of 1905 06, to about 405. 600
tons. The total production OF sead,
"a u basis OF the crop Of 1905 O8, at
900 pounds of seed to the bale OF cot
ton, was s, 100, 900 tong. Dcducting
the- amount for planting LETT APPS.
$50 tons for other uses. 1t appears
from the government reports that
shout 3, 500, coo tons wore crushed al
tie oil mills during the saDae year, or
about seventy per cent. Of the seed
available over and above shat neceS.
sHry for planting purposes.
ut is generally known that while
the se0d has q certain fsedlng value,
10 does not compare with the feeding
value Of meal and hulls, tho latter
being In far better mechanical oondi.
tion. Besides, 1hen sGad arc fed to
cattle, or put under orors, IL entails
al enormous losu OF the cotton seSo
products which should be aAved.
The fertil'zlng value OF seed il
confined almost entirely to Size
amount Of ma&l ~conl&ine0 III 81. AS
thiS averages from IT'S TO 825 pounds,
It 10 evidanG that every pound over
that quantity In q ton OF 2. 900
pounds IS almost Tasted whom used
FOR ferbiliztng the land in6tssd OF be.
Ing crushed by the mills.
THE mills Will generally exchange
meal and hulls for sced with Ghe
farmer on 8 basis that will make Il
far better for the tanner to do this
than 80 te6d them to sock or use the
sesd for fertilizing the soil.
IF tho seed ere crushed at this
mills, the chief product ia q high
grade material. and tho by. products
surpass any other stock feed.
MOT over shout seventy per cent.
Of the surplu1 seed are converted into
oil mill product, but II Ill the aeed
exclusive Of What is needed for plant.
ing were crushed, the gross conner.
cial value would be double the yalua
| OF the rsw seed uaod in any other way,
and would increase the value OF tie
South's products from this source
&lono about $50, 600. 900. In addison
10 this, nearly 9l), 600, 600 would be
pstd cut IN wages Oy tho mills, pr&c-
ticallY all OF which would bo dtsburs-
cd in the South Wil6fe tbs Se0d are
produced"