The farmer and mechanic., 1910-09-27

and Ties Free For Ginning and
Baling Cotton in War Between
Simpkins' Gin and North Carolina
Cotton Oil Company, the End Not in
Sight For Advance in Price Of
Seed Once Thrown Into the Fields.
Cotton seed, once counted Of little
Sorth, is climbing up Ia price, and in
Raleigh there is now going on war
over the price Of the seed and IN the
baling of cotton SO that there is no
telling where the price will stop, the
way it is soaring now, or how cheap
ly cotton is going to be ginned and
baled.
The fight which is helping the farm
ers began when Mr.. ". A. SimpkinS
started into the ginning season. He
put the price OF ginning and baling
cotton at one dollar bale, bagging
and ties at cost, with the
further inducement that he would<pay
fifty-two cents bushei for cotton
seed. Of the Simpkns' prolific kind.
This put the matter up TO the North
Carolina Cotton Seed Oil Company
here, and it made the announcement
that it would pay ffty-five cents a
bushel for cotton seed, having started
in the season at AZ cents for the seed,
cotton baled for one dollar.
At this Mr.. Simpkins came back
with an offer of 60 cents a bushei,
with cotton baled at one dollar. The
oil company them jumped the price to
so cents busheI and MT Simpkins
held to the raise with the baling offer
of one dollar still good, bagging and
ties free as an extra At this the
cotton seed oil company made their
offer go cents a bushel, cotton ginned
and baled at one dollar per bale bag
ging and ties free buying all kinds of
cotton seed. While Mr. Simpkins buys
only Smpkins' prolific. The public
now waits the next move in the war
of rates on cotton seed and baling OF
cotton.
And so. once a part OF the cotton
crop that was dumped in great loads
in the fields the deSpsed cotton seed
is coming into its kingdom, and what
The price will be eventually is only
guess work. In the West there arose
the cry of dollar wheat as q great
thing, and why may we not expect
dollar cotton seed? AS it is now
four hundred pound bale of cotton
gives as a by-product cotton seed that
sells for Sic. and it is easy to
member the time when a bale Of low
and SIS. Just think Of the millions
Of dollars that have been thrown away
on the cotton seed heaps in the field!
With the great value found in cot
ton seed the price is now too low, as
it has always been too low. In the
day of cotton seed at and 10 cents
a bushel it was worth more than that
for fertilizing. Though the price has
increased 500 to 500 per cent, the
top of the ladder has not yet been
reached, for many and various are the
uses of the seed today and these uses
are going to increase.
Cotton seed lard" when it was first
talked of and put on the market, was
laughed at, and it was declared that
it was not in the class with the lard
from the porker. But see what is
thought about it today. Then came
the 'tolive oil,'' made from the cotton
seed, declared to be the equal and by
some the superior of the purest Of
the original olive oil. And with the
oil extracted, there is the cotton seed
meal and its uses, the feeding quality
of the seed better with the oil ex-
tracted.
Cotton seed oil for cooking purposes
has grown to be standard, even the
critics who said there was a taste to
it not to be overcome being silenced.
experts have rid the oil of any
Objectionable smell and taste. That is
in the line of Improvement and of
opening new fields of use for the cot
ton seed. Science in the hands Of the
best Of experts are at work finding new
uses to which it may be put, and
as the demand for it keeps on the
increase, it may be that in time the
cotton farmers will find that the big
value is not in the lint, but in the
seed. Stranger things have happened
The block once respected became the
essential keystone of the arch. So
may it be with the cotton seed, whose
preparation may he so modernize
that in place of the farmer. as in
years past, hauling it by wagon loads
to be dumped in the field, the comin2 :
Years may see him hauling oil by the
barrels from his farm to receive prices
for it that now seem the echoes out
of dreamland.
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