The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-26

IL all over the world. And each year
1t more insistently thrusts itself on
the trade. Last year, for instance,
was a record-breaker as far as the
use of the cotton oil products was
concerned. Every ounce of output
was snapped up by the world, hungry
for the economical and cieanly sub
stitute for the animsf fat. So the
marketing is not the problem. The
buying end presents more of DIFF
ficulty.
with seventy-seven mills in the
state. all desirious OF buying seed.
with a fierce competition not restrained
by a market quotation such as re-
stricts the cotton buying. the task Is
strenuous Most OF the local mills
have Gotten seed buyers on the road.
or have brokers at the smaller towns.
Most have, also, ginneries In connec-
ton with the plant, from which the
seed which the farmers bring In are
sent to the mill to which the gin Is
attached. All the plants except one,
the National, operate gins in Montgom-
erl, and about the sectionS
And there is another/problem, be-
yond the buying. That is the educa-
ton Of the farmer to care for his
cotton seed. to recognize the value OF
the product. to harvest 1t Wei. Ine
BnlILl6SS 6aSACsAAB AA@O
will present 1t with an enormous adj
mixture OF trash of every variety. And
the trash detracts from the value OF
his seed, both to himself and to the
mill man. Sometimes II necessitates
waste altogether. And the world can
AFFORD but very few wastes OF cotton
seed hereafter.
The seed brings to the farmer about
SIS per ton, approximately. 1t Is
worth more. but the world 10 NOT
entirely awake, yet, to the value OF
the cotton seed products, and the in
dividual constituents. which intrtnsi-
cally should bear an absolute value
far greater than that now received
bring half the price they should.
value Of Product
Thus, cotton seed products, accord
ing to the analysis Of chemists ana
scientists have value that Is ahead
as far as results are concerned or the
yalue of other food stuffs. And yet
cotton seed products bring the less.
There is no reason experts have said,
WHY cotton seed oil should not sell for
practically the same as olive oil. II
Possesses all the virtues of the olive
substance, is palatable, nutritious,
easily digested and assimilated. Olive
oil brings 10 cents per pound-cotton
oil, cents.
Thus. while the cOIpOu Otl MIL huSh
receive about $40 ~ for the products
OF a ton of seed. they declare that the
values are thus distorted. and that
they should get $45.
The oil. which is, all in all. the most
important product of the seed. brings
cents a pound; the meal, cent; the
Iinters, / cent to cents; the hulls. s
pounds for 1 cent. The mil linen say
that all should bring more.
Cotton seed oil, since the inventions
of thirty and forty years ago which
first began the manufacture, is recog-
nized as an essential to the life Of
the world. It is a standard commod-
ity, and, like other commodities, its
price is affected by the law of supply
and demand. True. the prices may be
controlled by speculation to a limited
extent, but the< limit is short, not
for any length OF time.
Some believe that when cotton prices
huctuate. the price of the oil changes
also. This is not so, according to the
brokers. for though there may be a
sympathetic change in the oil prices