Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-29
Cotton Seed Bread.

AS to whether cotton seed VIII ever
become staple article of human food,
like wheat, for instance, cannot be
safely predicted; but one thing in con-
nection with the proposition is reason
ably certain. and that is that If cotton
seed does not eventually take high
rank among the more desirable bread
stuffs, it will hardly be because of its
unfitness for the purpose.
Cotton seed meal has been ground into
-four and made into bread as an eXper-
iment, and proving successful and
palatable as an experiment, capital Is
becoming interested and is arranging
to put the cotton seed flour on the
market on a large scale. That it Will
take lot of time, trouble and expense
to introduce it, there is very little ques-
ton; but other less desirable and less
promising food stuffs have been popu-
larized by the expenditure of time,
trouble and money, and the chances of
cotton seed as a staple article of food
seem good
1t has always been a difficult mat
ter to educate people to take on to new
things either in food or dress. There
Is a kind of unexplainable conserva-
tism that enters into the proposition
that is hard to overcome, and while
this conservatism is reasonable in all
things that do not have the additional
backing of special and particular inter-
est, no such objection should be urged
against cotton seed with the people of
the south for it is their business 10
stand by the cotton seed just as they
stand by cotton, for it is profitable for
them to do so.
During the past fifteen or twenty
years cotton seed oil has largely sup
planted hog lard as cooking fat Hog
lard used to be practically the only
thing known for the purpose in this
section. There is little else known at
this time. The admixture of cotton
seed oil has gone on apace. until the
percentage of the oil is larger than the
percentage of the hog fat; but still so
long as there has been no change in the
name, there has been but slight objec-
ton. Only continue to call it lard and
it is all right
The pure food laws, which by the
| way are generally good, had their Ori-
gin very largely in the efforts of the
| western hog raisers to discourage the
sale of cotton seed under the name
of pure leaf lard. The admiXture of cot
ton seed oil enabled the lard" manu-
facturer to sell cheaper than otherwise
and the idea was that if manufacturers
could be compelled to market the mixed
| product on it's own merits and under
| it's own name, the price of hogs would
| be better, and that idea has proved
| correct Now that oil and lard cannot
| be sold as pure lard. and people know
| the difference, they have the idea that
| the lard is the more desirable and buy
it. Our southern people are not differ
| ent from the others.
We would not suggest that any one
should use cotton seed flour simply be-
| cause it is southern product. We be-
lieve firmly in the idea of the right OF
every individual to eat that which he
likes best if ne can afford it, But still
we would suggest that every family siv,
| the cotton seed flour a chance, max.
bread of it and determine whether Ul
not it is good. If tn" southern people
can find in cotton seed Il satisfactory
substitute for wheat, it will mean great
| wealth for them.