The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-12
SCIENCE HAS TRANSFORMED
 COTTON SEED TO RICH ASSET

removed. and the press ready for sn- other load. There are two interesting l matters In connection with this pro- l cess. First; notwithstanding the enor- | nous pressure, per cent of oil Is still | left in the meal, and no process has | ever yet been perfected that can get thls per cent If the process were | successful, then cotton seed meal would | lose some of its value as food for l stock. The oil In the meal acts as soothing emollent and Is health -siv. | ing and corrective In its influences Mark this. Cotton seed meal will make 1 the South more successful In raising cheap hogs than the Vest for cotton seed meal Is better builder of flesh | than corn. Second, the weary carnels 1 of the dreary deserts play . part in | the process. The cloths are made of 1 camel's hair. No other material has l, ever been found equally satisfactory. Thus east and west meet at the hy- dranlic press The strain upon the cloth Is enormous. Just why the camel can bear the strain no one knows But U IS so. The responsiveness of the cloth Is appalling. It costs e5 cents pound and about six pounds go to a cloth. An average of ten cloths break up and become worthless day h this large mill.
 Crushing the Cake.
 Now we will first follow the cotton seed cake. It Is thrown into crush CT and then afterwards Into an attri- 1 ton mill. which, though 1t stands less than i've feet high, uses seventy-nve horsepower to run. The steel grind CTS within it move In opposite direc. lions and produce the powdered green isn-colored meal, known to stock feed- CTS and the men who use 1t for ferti- lizng another crop of cotton. As a fer- tilizer. tho cycle Is completed From earth It came, to earth 1t returns, to nourish new generation of plants. growing on the bosom of the great Now for-the oil. It is pumped into l great receiving tanks and then as needed pumped into q tank for heating and treatment. It ts not boiled, but is raised to temperature of about ITO degrees. When exactly the right tenn perature Is secured, exactly the right amount of caustic soda is poured in Huge paddles. working in various di- rections in the great tank. bring every moleeule of oil ultimately into con tact with the soda, the soda uniting with resinous and other substances in the oil, forming them into great heavy nakes which sink to the bottom when padding ceases. These substances are used for soap stock. The oil which went into the treatment a deep ma room color. comes out of 1t with a tint technically known as summer yellow Then commences filtration and other processes. which make the color of 1t still lighter. until ultimately 1t can be served to the most delicate palate as salad oil or used in the most delicate of cookery.
 The Hogiess Lard.
 For the hogIess lard of commerce. one concession is made to human pre- Judice, the oil is mixed with a product or beef-fat. so as to have a white, sol- i'd appearance. This Is of absolutely no benefit to it as a cooking product and the large bakers do not think of using 1t in the solid form The liquid form Is better. The public has howey- l eFs from early ages looked upon the soiidity of lard as something to admire and hence the solidity that is given to Snow-drift, to Cottolene and similar substances sold under varying names. Good old Archimedes who first taught the jewellers in tho Nile Valley an easy method of raising water to a height. has his share in this modern develop
 nent. The cotton seed. the cotton hulls ana various products of the jour ney are moved from place to place by Archemedien screws. working at 15O revolutions a minute. The old warn | Ing, do not monkey with the huzx saw" applies here. except that the the buzz saw Is not. and the Archeme- | uoah screw iss The cotton seed goes through all the processes without the touch of the human hand. except when the cakes are taken from the cloths at the crusher. The cotton seed oil Is never touched by human hand
 Vast Growth In Seven Years.
 To give an idea of the importance of the cotton seed industry. 1t is mere " necessary to state that in 1900 there | were 369 mills in the United States: in
 1907, there were 7s6. the mills have more than doubled. In 1887 there were
 only four mills in the United States
 At that time cotton seed was choking
 gullies and inJuring health in decay. Now 1t has become valuable addition to the wealth of the United States
 realizing a turnover of $ss, s,000, 900 in
 1907. Each year sees new uses and new values given to 1t. These uses ana
 values are eagerly sought by the oil
 mills, as they will gradually enable
 them to give a higher price for the seed, and thus tempt a larger portion out of the hands of the indoient far
 uer into the hands of the enterprisInr oil mill managers.
 Seventy-Seven in the State.
 Montgomery has five oil mills in Ope- ration; there are seventy-seven in the State The Southern Cotton oil Go, has the largest mill in this city and ale so the largest in the State. This Com
 pany has eighty-eight mills in opera
 tion in various parts of the Southern
 States. The four other mills here are
 the Alabama Cotton Oil Co. (one of
 the forty plants operated by American
 Cotton oil co.,) the Planters Cotton
 oil Co.,. the Dixie Cotton oil Go, and
 the National Cotton Oil Go They are
 all carrying on work similar to the
 process described. all adding to the
 wealth of this region and all anxious
 that every farmer should know the ex-
 ceeding wastefulness of allowing his
 cotton seed to rot. Some of them mix fertilizer from the meal; some of them
 do not, but all are vieing In making "a greater Montgomery" by the means that alone builds big cities.--''Factories
 make cities"
 G. Grosvenor Dave.