The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-25
WIDE USE OF COTTON.
1t Enters into the Production of
Most Varied Articles.

Capt. B. H. Holmes, of New Or
leans, has been quoted by The Balti-
more American as saying that no
one man in 10000 has the remotest
idea of the vast number of uses to
which the once despised cotton seed
is now being put. This statement
presents no exaggeration, says The
New York Commercial. And even
in the South itself, where alone IN
this country the cotton seed is raised,
it is extremity doubtful if the ma
jority of the people even on the plan
tations could name quarter part OF
these uses. Captain Holmes emu
merates them thus:
From the clean seed are OBTAINED
linters and meats, the hulls making
the best and most fattening feed for
cattle that has yet been found.
From the linters are gathered ma
terial for mattresses, felt wads,
paper, rope and grade of under
wear, likewise cellulose, out of which
guncotton is made. The meats
furnish oil and meal, the oil after
refining being now in almost uni
versal use in the kitchen of this and
other countries. Before refinement
to the edible stage, the oil is known
under many names, such as salad Oil,
starine, winter oil and white Oil,
olemargarine being the chief ingre-
dients in compound lards. The origi-
nal oil, also known as soap stock,
has fatty acids used in the manufac-
ture of soaps, roofing tar, paints and
glycerine, and from this comes the
explosive nitroglycerine, might al
so add that the meal, aside from its
use as cattle provender, is transform
ed into bread, cake, crackers and
even candy. Last of all come the
doctors, who are saying that the
wonderful seed is boon to the slck'
since from it soils an emulsion IS
prepared that has been known to be
of value in tuberculosis and otner
ailments.
If to these by-products of the cot
ton plant are added the almost
counties uses to which the white
fibre itself is put, the list would be
of length to provoke the wonder
of the average man and woman.
Aside from the part that cotton
plays in the wearing apparel OF CIV
lization, it is encountered In a
thousand and one other forms that
are not impressive because they are
so common and at almost every
point where human vision may
chance to rest. 1t is next to lmpos-
sible to get away from cotton; one
RIBS up against it everywhere from
the time he gets out of bed IN the
morning until he draws the coverlet
over him again at night; II IS
INDISPENSABLE to the bath, and While
we talk loosely about table lnen'
very few breakfast tables escape some
contact with cotton; it is IN ever!
room of the house in some shape'
as he passes out the front door'
il stares at him from practlcans
eyedy window; it is in the street car
the ferry and railroad train tnat
takes him to work; in the meantlme'
it is all about the store or once OF
other Mace of business; the street
venders are hawking it in hunoreo
forms: it is in almost every sho"
window; it bobs up at luncheon; IL IS
somewhat in the horses's harness ana
in the automobile trapplngs; inc
.sboe shine" has to have it; to the
.scrub-lady' it is an absolute neces-
sitv: every barroom, cafe and court
room has it's measure of the staple'
= confronts the diner-out and the
diner-at-home; the clubs and the no.
tells are fairly loaded with II IN 1orins
"too numerous to mentlon' the
theatres, both the auditorium ana Oh
the stage, present it in vast variety
Of shape and color; the newborn
infant is put into swaddling clothes
of cotton and the body is LAID 10 resi-
in it; clergymen, the puglllst' the
barber, the baker, the butcner 'ne
manicure and burglar all nno IL
handy in their business; the sa'llns
craft. the balloon, the steamboat ahu
the areoplane use it in the aggregate
in enormous quantities; the jail anu
the sanctuary must have cotton We
dance in it, swim in it, pray III IT,:
And it is in ever-increasing demano
the world over.
The South ought to raise mucn
more of it than she does and to nan
die it more scientifically and econ
on,;ca1ly And her monopoly Oh ~