The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-27
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 Aaaxes. by s. !. casseis pefere sssnfxomesy cemmereisi cius
 At Its Ls.t Meetins. ;.

The feature of the recent meeting ot IA Neutgomsry Commercial Club vas 4n nadress by s. T. casseis on The ffapertarcs og the Cotton Seed Indus try. and Its Relations to Montsom- sry.@
 Mr. cssseIs said:
 pifsdenf as am. 1t is with much pleasure that have accepted our see- retary's Invitation to speak to you to- night on the importance of the cotton seed industry In its relation to Mont Eomery.
 am 50 enthusiastic about the pos abilities of the development of the product of the cotton seed along the line of the increase and extension of their uses; and | feel so much confi- dence in the facts present that when get chance to talk before such an Intelligent and critical audience as we have tonight I elmost forget to be embarrassed and to have any regard for the length of time may detain you.
 I bslisve I will preface what have to say with the challenge to any of the other industries represented here 70 deny the claim will make that In point of sfEe and importance the in- duekry for which l speak stands at the head of the list in Montgomery. If no one will deny this at the moment. submit some figures exhibiting our SaaRnituda SO that you may take them herne and study them. and if you do not concsde us the first place you Will b4 oompsIied to accord us such po- eikipn of prominenes as to demana your serious attention and earnest c@nstderstion: and 1t is just this at f8ntion and consideration that want for a few minutes this evening while tell you scme very remarkable things fn connection with the cotton seed oil industry.
 Ths cotton seed receipts of Mont gomeFy amount to about to.0oo tons. which at the average price paid for the pat few yeara of eiS per ton delivers cd, would make the very considerable mnm Of sTSe.0oo a year paid by the oil miIls in Montgomery for their raw material; mark you. this money Is paid fer product raised in our own cot 8on fielae and sold and shipped here by shs band of sturdy yeomen living with. fM 6 yadius of Deventy-fve miles of shia great city of CUTS.
 For labor employed and material uBsa in crushing this seed. the oil mills spend about SC ton. or approx Aanm1slY 930e.0oe. and in accomplish snw 1hia great tasis they furnish sun- pi0ymnnt for about a00 man
 As to what takes place in an oil mil while 1t is in operation, CT what an Ehe pr0eess iavolved in the conveF~ 8l0n ef entton seed into oil. meal, bulls and lintars. I refer you tc the able article by eur honored Secretary in rho Afonfgcnory Advertiser of July i1.
 0n . Raw Material.
 Aside from the magnitude of our in. duhtry. { want to lay special strees on 6 particular phase of my subject. m0rs fercihiy to the people of Mont- Kensyy than any other argument I efnotoy: ana that is the fact that we on@rate on raw material produced right at eur doors, use fuel mined in Ala- hntaa. employ faboreRs both white and colcrsd from the ranks of our own ciaaBes and the products we naanufact- shuuid be used entireiy by our own people right at home.
 Now ng to the uses of the products of cotton seed: It would be waste of tirne for ne to argue the advantages derived from the use Of cotton seed zneei as fertilizer, as this is already thoreughly appreciated and too well un- dorstood by all our agricuIturists. If this claim needs any argument to supp port St, need only to refer you to the addrAaa made by Hon. ]. A. wtlkin- son. Commissioner of Agriculture for thin State to the Alabama Cotton Seed gruaheFs' Association at their conven- 4ion In BIcunt Springs last month when he declared that for raising q cotton crop there is nothing I know ne la the form of ammoniated goods that will compare with cotton seed meal, and if ! were to undertake to use single ammoniate cotton seed meal is the only thing would buy. Ana when the farmer puts down cot Aon seed nsal he has the best and most coFnpfets fertilizer of anything In ex- ietsace. and there ia no other fertilizer axeepf compound that compares with ik"
 Therefore ! am not exploiting the ,,ma s,f cation seed meal as fertiltz-