The gold leaf., 1910-03-31

poses Which the By-Pro-
ducts Of the Staple Are Now
Serving.
Charlotte Observer
The people of the South and of the
nation are just awaking to the tre-
mendous possibilities OF the cotton
seed oil industry and to the numer-
Gus by-prOducts which are entering
into daily and direct consumption.
An enlightening address on the sub
ject was recently delivered by Mr.. B.
+. Taylor at Columbia, S. c., the
speaker being an expert on the sub
iect and we'll acquainted with the
manifold uses of the products of the
cotton seed oil industry. The follow
ing account of his address is taken
from the Columbia State and will
prove interesting:
"Benjamin +. Taylor's address on
The Cotton Seed Oil Industry yes
terday morning at the assembly hour
in the university chapel was in the
nature of a revelation to his audience.
Few people realize the tremendous
strides which the cotton seed oil in
dustry has made in the last few years
or the variety and value of it's many
by-prOducts, comprising as they do
everything from soap to guncotton,
from the crude oil to bread.
'Mr. Taylor exhibited among other
things q cake and two loaves of
bread made from cotton seed meal,
which the ladies in the audience pro-
nOunced excellent The meal con
tains higher percentage OF protein,
one OF the principal nutrients which
our bodies require, than meat. The
meal can be made into bread which
is quite palatable and extremely nu-
tri5iOus. The meal is now very much
in demand as u concentrated cattle
food, but the day is perhaps not far
distant when it will become one Of
our staple articles of diet. AS Mr..
Taylor said, since it carries in bal
anced proportion starch, hydrocar-
bOns, fat, and prOteins from it could
be made the one bread on which man
might subsist without other food,
contrary to the Scriptural statement
that man cannot live by bread
alone.
Concerning the beginning of the
cotton seed oil industry, the speaker
said:
1.-The cotton seed oil business, of
which We are to speak, had its begin
ming, so far as we are able to learn
from the records, in this city, almost
coincident with it's birth Mr.. Benia-
min Waring, a descendant of Land
grave Smith, was appointed one OF
the commissioners to sell the lots in
the newly-laid town of Columbia,
and he himself became a permanent
resident of the city. He soon estab-
lished a paper mill and a small mill
for making castor oil from the seeds
of the Palmas Christi plant. He soon
experimental with cotton seed and
produced a very palatable oil on a
small scale, but so far as we know he
did not work the cotton seed oil on a
commercial scale. His experiments
passed from the memory of man and
the record of them is preserved in a
few rare and musty volumes.
HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRY.
"'AbOut the year 1856 there was
living in New Orleans a Frenchman
named Aldige, who was familiar with
the manufacture of peanut and other
oils as practiced in France, and he
conceived the idea of extracting the
J oil from cotton seed, which at that
time was practically waste product
in the Mississippi valley, due nc
doubt to the marvellous richness o.
those alluval lands. The seed, how
ever, had long since been made use o.
in our section as fertilizer and stock
food and had very distinct value
with us for these purposes. AS a
matter of fact the agricultural papers
repeatedly advocated the extraction
of the oil and the use of the cake as 6
cattle food. But to Aldige must be
credited the first successful modern
oil mill, and the plant established by
him is operated today, but of course
the whole process has been changed
and the crude affair of his day is not
to becompared with the modern mill
"'Aldige found ready sale for his
cotton oil and cake in Europe, anC
after some effort he introduced the
oil in this country as a soap grease
and lubricant. 1t was some time be
fore methods were discovered for re
fining the oil so as to make it fit FOL
food, but as soon as this trouble was
eliminated the use of the oil in max
ing a lard substitute opened mos
promising field and set on foot thai
rapid development of the bushes:
which has been one of the marvellous
achievements of the new South. LII
1868 General E. p. Alexander anC
associates organized an oil mill which
was built just in front OF where ont
of the largest mills in the State nov
is and operated it successfully for {
year or two, but the price OF oil hav
ing declined they found the business
Improbable and abandoned it.
"'BuU enough of this history OF th'
past. What we want to know Ii
something of the present and fut lr'
prospects of the business.
1.-The commissioner of agriculture
tells US that during the season o
1908 and 1909 the mills located il