The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-27
Inportance of the Cotton
 Seed Industry to Montgomery

CT, but what I want to say and want to smphasize with all the force at my command Is that this meal of ours Is too valuable to be fed Into the ground and should be more generally used as . feed for stock.
 Upon the authority of any number of chemists and upon that of tho Az riepltursl Department at Washington tSee Farmers Bulletin No. ID. I tell you that cotton seed meal has the highest percentage of protein or feed value of any feed stun known to com meree. The great trouble is that it is so rich that the farmer must be com tinualiy cautioned to use 1t very spar jngly lest he cyerfeed his animals. ! must also give our people credit for having discovered how very valuable this golden meal Is fer the feeding Of steers and cows. producing the brawn in the one case and the milk in the other. but I want to emphasize and urge the use of at least one pound q day of cotton seed meal to be fed to every work animal in the Montgomery territory .and to say that when .his IS done the planters would be ccmpeii- ed to look elsewhere for their ammonia Co put under their cotton, because 1t would require ali the meal produced in Montgomery and more besides if such ration was universally erl- pioyed.
 Point of the Argument.
 The point of the argument is this. That when this fact is realized and put into practice, the price of cotton seed meal will be at least double what It Is today, and the farmers cotton seed will likewise enjoy 6 correspond- ing increase in value, and the city of Montgomery will reap the benefit by thQ innFaa n rA afxrh "a of the advance in the price of the meal and the seed. but also because the Eu- ropean could not then afford to pur. chase about 25 per cent. of the meal we make as Is now the case,
 have in my hand formulas for mak- ing these mixed feeds for stock as well as for chickens and hogs, and will be pleased to furnish the informa- ton to any one who might be interest ed.
 But, gentlemen, everybody does not raise chickens or horses or mules or sheep or hogs or ferti1ize the land. As the concluding chapter of this TO- nance of the cotton seed tfor the story is no less than a romancel, want to call your attention to the fact that ev- cry inhabitant of Montgomery, or in. deed of Alabama (for they are almost co-extensive) can contribute to the in~ crease in value of cotton seed by us- ing the most delightful oil which 1t produces both as cooking fat and . salad oil in place of the hog product from Chicago and the olive oil from Southern Europe. Our claim for cot ton seed oil Is that 1t Is purer, cleaner and more wholesome than hog fat, and this, fact alone should be eufieient arr Runnent for it's use In preference to lard, but further than this the use of lard made of cotton seed oil Is about 25 per cent more econon1tcal than pure lard, and the use of the pure oil CT. Cotton seed oil in the shape of oIeomargarine makes an excellent sub stitute for butter and Is very much cheaper The oil is also used exten- slvely by housewives for mixing with their milk in the churn so as to pro" duce about one-third increase in the quantity of butter. This oil Is also De. ing extensively used in the practice of medicine and has largely replaced eod liver oil in enuisions.
 Making Ice Cream.
 One of the most recent uses or tns oil and the one which probably more than any other demonstrates its pos. abilities Is for making ice-cream. ! have made this statement on few oe- casions before and have bad my verae- itv questioned. Therefores with the permission of the secretary of our club I have come prepared tonight to de- monstrate the proof of this statement. and when the meeting has adjourned there will he served to all present de- Ucious ice cream made with no milk or cream. but entirely of an emulsion of Wesson Cotton Seed oil, together with cake containing no butter but only Snowdroft lard.
 Our people are only just beginning to realize what a valuable asset we have in the cotton plant. You know cotton is spoken of as King, and we now begin to look upon the cotton seed a~ Queen and If almost begins to look as if 1t viii not be long before the plant will be cultivated because of the value of the seed and the cotton fibre will then be looked upon as the oy-product of the plant, and when that day comes wa viii all have to join in the shout that '"The King Is dead; ions live the Queen"