The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-22
Story =. ~ snnsdustry--WiII Yield to the Farmers
THIS Year $165,000,0O0

cotton Seed for Years and Years Re
garded as Bother and a Nuicance.
Now Yielding Princely Revenue
The Products of the Seed, Oil the
Most Valuable.
Charlotte, Nov. 19.-The farmers of
the South will receive this year for
the seed from their cotton approSi-
| mately $165, 100000, at least one-fiftfl
as much as they will receive from the
fleecy staple itself Within the mem
ory Of men still comparatively young,
the seed from the entire cotton crop,
with the exception of the few saved
for planting the next crop. We're re-
| garded as bother and a nuisance
and were used to fill gullies or thrown
in waste places. Later, in their raw
! state. they Were used for fertilizers
and even a few wears ago, when cotton
start, 20 cents a bushei was regarded
as an excellent price, and the returns
| were regarded as velvet" by the
| farmers.
The story of the cotton-seed indus
| try is an interesting one. It's develop
| ment has been rapid. The discovery
of something Of the value Of the seed
! hardly more than two decades ago
led to the small start of an industry
that now furnishes employment tC
Thousands Of persons, and the prod
ucts of which sell in their finished
state for more than billion dollars
year. There was but q small demand
at first for the hulls and meal for
stock feed and fertilizer, and the oi
was used at first surreptitiously II
lard However, the whOlesomeneEs
of the oil led to quite q rapid increase
in its demand. while realization OF
the value of the meal and hulls fol
cattle feed and of the meal for fer
tiEzer was not long in coming to tht
farmers Of the South; so that condl-
tons led to the very rapid develop
ment of the industry.
Several Hundred Mills Now.
There are in the South today severa
hundred plants for crushing the ol
from the cotton seed. Three i2rgt
corporations are engaged extensively
in in the manufacture of the products
of the seed these three alone oV nina
nearly 400 crushing mills and quite q
number of refineries. The companies
are the Southern Cotton Oil Company
the American Cotton Oil Company and
4 Proctor & Camille. the scores OF
other mills in the South sell their
crude oil to these larger companies OF
to independent refineries and packing
! houses, the latter Of whom still use
tremendous amounts Of oil in their
pure leaf lard for the henefit OF
| those who have not Yet learned the
superi07.jtv OF vegetable over anima
cooking fats
,, The products Of the Seed.
ry
out three products from the cotton
seed, hulls, meal and crude oil. Tho
hulls and meal are sold to farmers
who mix them themselves for cattle
feed, while the crude oil is sold to the
| larger companies or to -efiner'es. III
. some Of the large mills the meal and
hulls are scientifically mixed AMI blend
ed into boveta and other balanced cat
: tie feed which has within tie pas
year or so been shipped to the Eastern
Stntps TO dairNmen and StOCKmen
while by the introduction Of corn, rice
bran and a small amount Of molass 5
a horse feed resembling oats in its
constituency, is made, ana this pro
duct called succ0tes, IS becoming quite
popUIar with those who purchase in
stead of raise their horse feed.
Cotton flour for human consump-
ton was manufactured for the first
. time last fall and winter. It is made
by a rather expensive process and has
, not been put on the market as chear
product It's claim to favor lies T
the fact that it contains 4 Very hiTF
. ,r cent of protein. a larger proper
ton in fact than almost any article
known. while the proportion Of starch
is exceedingly small. The flour is sc
rich that il cannot be made into bread