The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-02-13
COTTON SEED OIL,
THE INTELLECTUAL MULE AND THE
UNLETTERED NEGRO AS SCIENTISTS.
They Teach Valuable Facts Which Learn
ed Men Failed to Discover.
AND THEY WIN AGAINST THE IGNORANCE, THE SU-
PERSTITION AND THE OPPOSITION OF
THE PEOPLE OF DIXIE.

"Sinoe the days Of the old regime
| And, Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give-though it might seem bold
hundred years Of the Golden Age,
i For q year Of the Age of Gold."
The which the builders refused become the head stone Of
the corner.n
Let the reader be not alarmed We writing sermon
the words Scripture merely because aptness the
story which writing
writing intrinsic value of tho
seed profound secret from all the world Neither science
agricultural had hint " 10
value the cotton seed AS fertilizer little regarded and rev
thought the beneficial effects sufficient for the labor OF
throwing broadcast the land And thought that twenty
extent which could be used with good
seed had almost appecable value
very spangy would refuse eat
again. there who had only two cows and
careful in aowancing this food to EACH Where cattle were
fed parngy satisfactory results to few But cattle
fed together unsatisfactory results followed.
The rich planter while proigae generally gave to
poor they cared feed to their milk
cows.
Fatal Result Of Ignorance.
Now for the story which we writing related not as An
exceptional but show clearly the situation or es
held within the lifetime OF this writer
Williamson Norwood large planter in that part OF AooeVe
County which known the Fatwoods he
Of land and possessed slaves in
numbers cultivate the In the Fall OF his oVe
the cotton seed out Of the second story OF the gin mousse
heaped until the seed with the Sill OF inc
door from which they had been thrown .
completely wet the seed The not sun III tne
spring Of 1s49 did the rest
An epidemic of typhoid swept cabins Scores Of slaves
many them died. rich neighbor and knsman
adjoining plantation and owned
stricken down with the fever When he was
ned against the advice Of his physician on going
mountains 1t finally agreed that he might enter on the
Journey only ten miles day. Starting out ne
made thirty day bis journey BE relsped and the
end came to him.
All this nothing known Of the seed when properly
used and the dangers incident to the
seed which Providence in his munifcenc sent to
Of his best gifts
Mules Wisdom.
Some twenty thirty years not know who
discovered in the sed Mills put for ex
tracing At that time the bulls regarded as worthless
Abbev well elsewhere the hulls thrown on the
the the boiler Somebody bad live
looking oil mill in Atlanta And employee
of the Abbeve of mule bones to the MILL That
poor live stock Atlanta knew OF the value Of
cotton seed ofAmeca Having tho free
picked the bulls and pn them where they
would good little time stack of mule bones had
and sleek mule the most exacng farmer
could wish see reports the Atlanta livestock
people began to e up and notice little things ST. ton
for the bulls which readily accepted by the mills
Hus that the sell at that price then sent out to
stock with which to experiment. The price soon
and the demand greater than the supply
price kept going step by % until we believe So has
paid for huls.
II Farmers Cussing" the Value of their Product.
To keep up the persecution this great beneaon farm
e and others did some kicking cussing corpora
for asking the hu The sellers seed were bound
have forgotten that the corpora
known this country and $40 ton the cheapest
had raised price from $500 ton to ts and to $S
Iton
another evidence ignorance we'll as the best proof
the value the best Of
prejudice against cotton oil lard is widespread today and
some men, generally regarded Of intelligence and
refuse cotton oil in cooking The kernel
heart seed earth better protected from impurities and
it must acknowledged food product feer from
aduteraon than cotton oil We need not speak Of the
d impurity or the contamination of hog lard.
this statement Of what We believe to be facts may
u cude:
FsThat farmers for nearly hundred threw
the heahest the foods for
the human family.
all Others until refused
-, to recognize the value of huls az food for stock.
Third-That their faces flint against the
cotton food This too in the light Of and with the
8 knowledge of we'll known facts
FourhThat similar ystemmac effort has been made
by any people of their product
Fth-Tha despite prejudice ignorance and persistent warfare
soil proved valuable the seed
n the cotton.
ons proved it's commercial value to be equal in
y excess OF, the cost of working the CROP
sevenhDe'te the ignorance and foolish opposition to the
seed it day proving ts still WORTH In
valuable than gold mines Al for the ills OF life
+ it has no SUPERIOR food It'll the best
discovered the great value Of huls
stock Was the who plants and gathers it? No. Was