Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-03-29

lived, and dead, he is transmitted, trans
posed. reincarnated and transmogrifie,
into an Eastern Sho'man. His proteid
and mineral salts become the bones
and muscles of Sho' men; his phospho
rus expands and develops into Easter
Sho' brains. And so he dies with
smile and bares his carcass to the cary
ing knife with the air of one consecra
ted to high and holy purpose. -Balti
more Sun.
LAwLESSNESS TO FORFEIT NATURAL
| ROCKS.
/ A bill has been introduced in the Con-
necticut Legislature providing for the
sale of the natural oyster beds to private
individuals, says the New York Fish
ing Gazette. If passed it will mean the
death knell of the natural growther. -
These beds are to be cut up into lots Of
25 acres each and in August, 1907, shall
be taken over by the State and sold to
the highest bidder. The bill gives the
highest bidder the right to choose the
first bed; the second highest, the next,
and so on, until all the beds are gone.
This bill, if passed, would leave the
State absolutely without natural oyster
beds and would deprive of the means of
livelihood many hundreds of persons
who make their living from the natural
beds. A second bill similar to the first,
allows for the five years lease of the
natural oyster beds instead of their out
right sale, was also introduced.
Copies of remonstrances against the
sale of the natural beds are being signed
by many citizens.
Many of those natural growthers,
so-called, who work the natural oyster
beds of Connecticut, seem to be dis
turbers who are an expense to the State,
are a constant menace to those growers
who have oysters on private beds any
where near the natural oyster grounds,
are unwilling to pay any suitable tax
which will help support the State COM
mission which has charge of the beds
and have made themselves so generally
Objectionable for the past few years,
that it is the opinion of many that the
natural oyster beds should be done away
with"
NEW oIL-EXTRACTING DEVICE.
There has been tested in this city
during the past year a machine for
which great deal is claimed by its
owners. 1t is an oil extracting press
of new pattern which, because of its
economy and efficiency, say the owners,
will display from $1,000, 900 to $40, 200,
600 worth of machinery in the South
and make for greater prosperity be-
cause it will dispense with nearly all
the manual labor required by the pres
ent mills, and will thus solve the labor
problem for that business in the South.
The working Of the machine has been
observed with much interest by impor-
tant corporations in this country and
Europe, who have sent their officers
or agents here to see it in operation.
The machine was yesterday shipped to
the jamestown exposition, where II
will be exhibited next summer.
The machine was built for the Con-
tinuous extracting press corporation
of 26 Broadway, New York, j. j.
McNally of Norfolk, Va, and ]. c.
Fiddyment of Chicago are the paten-
tees. During most of last year exten-
sive experiments have been made with
the five ton machine and in the past
few weeks the result in the extraction
of oil from cotton seed and other oil
products have been very satisfactory.
The extracting press corporation was
organized two years ago to own and
control the patents and business. It is
composed of business men from New
York, Chicago and Providence, R. /.
The company has several machines
somewhat similar to the one here, but
built for the extraction of fish oil, now
IN operation in some cities of the South,
and six more in process of construction.
heretofore oil extracting has been
done with hydraulic presses. The prin-
cipal of the continuous extracting press
is steel screw increasing gradually in
diameter toward the exit end. This
is inclosed by solid cylinder perforated
with strainers through which the oil
and liquids exude and which restrain
the solid materials that are finally
forced in hardened mass through the
exit end. 1t is claimed that the ma.
chined extracts from three to five gal.
Ions more cotton-seed oil to the ton o1
cleaned materials than does the hy.
draulic press. Springfield Mass Re-
publican.