The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-06-18
New York World. MAY 10th.

A thousand things pleasing, use
full, meritorious and highly priced in
/ the mechanics and arts have within
| the past thirty years emanated from
the frOwsy cotton seed, at one time
considered practically useless by the
cotton growers in the Sunny South.
Step by step have these things been
attained. Days and months have
| the chemists tOiled to reach the goal
of success. Millions of dollars were
expended to extract the virtues that
were known to exist in the little
brown embryo that ignorance wasted
and continued blindlv wasting until
science intervened and turned the
river OF waste into sea of gold.
! Columbus found cotton in use by
the natives when he touched Amer
ica's shores in 1892. Cortez men
toned it as being rudely manufac-
tured into cloth by the Mexican
Indians.
The snow-white balls were found
growing wild i'll Texas and the lower
Mississippi Valley as early as 1886.
| Virginia cOlOnists cultivated it as
long ago as 1921. No one dreamed
then that it would be q world COM
MODIFYING one thought of the value
| of the seed.
Contrasting the wastefulness Of
those days with the economies of the
present, and the various uses to which
the seed and its component parts are
put, is the purpose of this article.
The American Cotton Oil Company,
No. 81 Beaver street, New York, with
factories in various states of the
Union, export annually cotton seed
oil to the amount of $5O,OOO,OOO.
The enormity of this sum is almost
incomprehensible to the lay mind,
yet that does not wholly represent the
wealth obtained from a material that
thirty years ago was deemed of small
consequence. This great American
industry is not chiefly supported by
foreign trade. Its greatest market
is at home. More than half the pro-
duction is consumed in the United
States, where the purity and whole
someness of the oils and the useful
ness and value of the cake, meal,
linters and hull are making new
friends and wider markets every
year.
] From the seed come compound
lard, cooking oil, salad oil and soap
oil, chemically pure, nourishing and
healthful
The lard is recognized as a mixture
of cotton oil and beef stearine, and
produces a vegetable product that is
unequalled.
Having the Endorsement of leading
physicians, the cooking oil, which is
made strictly without smell or taste,
ranks high for the use of persons sui
fering from Indigestion or weak
stomachs.
Prior to the enactment of the Pure
Food law cottOn-seed oil was export
ed in large quantities and returned
to this country as olive oil, having
had 20 per cent. of olive oil mixed
with it, and then sold at the price of
pure olive oil. The profit to the
Iadulterators on the other side was
enormous, as the cotton oil sold for
46 cents a gallon, as against $500
a gallon for olive oil.
Pure cotton seed oil, as obtainable
to-day under tho protection of the
Pure Food act, is preferred for salad
! purposes to olive oil, it being readily
. assimilated and of lasting benefit tC
weak stomachs.
Stearine, which comes from the
natural butter, by it's consistency
: and taste. Nearly all of this is sold
in Holland to manufacturers of but
terine, who ship it to England, where
it has large sale.
Toilet soaps of the highest grade
the use of which imparts to the flesh
the softness and smoothness of the
babes cheek, are made of oil from
the seed that was thirty years. age
looked upon as worthless.
Cottonseed meal with its agreeable
nutty flavor, is, from the agricul
turist's point of view, the most i'm
portant, because it has proved th,
best food for live stock 1t enriche.
the product of the dairy and impart:
to the cattle the smooth, sleek gloss,
hide so highly priced by dairymel
who take pride in the appearance o
, their stock
Thousands of tons of cotton seet
meal are used annually by tobacco
growers and planters in the Connect
t cut Valley, New England States
o Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Caro-
lima and wherever the priced weed i
' cultivated
O A fine, light-colored leaf that com
p mands the highest price results from
the use of the cotton seed meal, ant
It the most successful tobacco grower
SOW prime cotton seed meal on thei
land broadcast Immediately afte
ploughing.
= The American Cotton Oil Compa
I ny's products may be found in th
kitchen and on the tables of ever
/ civilized country in the world. 1t
burning in the altar lamps {
| churches, and is lighting armies {
| miners as they delve and burrow /
| the secret places of the earth.
l Mrs. 5. L. Bowen, OF " ayne, " Va, writ'