The Green Forest tribune., 1911-03-17
WIDE USE OF COTTON SEED
Few People Have Any Idea of Many Uses Once Despised Article Is
 Now Put-Boon to Sick.

Capt. B. J. Holmes of New Orleans has been quoted by the Baltimore American as saying that not one man in ten thousand 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, and even in the south itself, where alone in this .coun- try the cotton seed Is raised, it is eX- tremely doubtful if the majority of the people even on the plantations could name a quarter part of these uses. Captain Holmes enumerates them thus:
 From the clean seed are obtained linters, meats and hulls, the hulls making the best and most fattening feed for cattle that has been found. From the linters are gathered mate rial for mattresses, felt, wads, paper, rope and grade of underwear, and l likewise cellulose, out of which gun cotton is made. The meats furnish oil and meal, the oil after refining be- ing now in almost universal use in the kitchens of this and other countries. Before refinement to the edible stage, the oil is known under many names l such as salad oil starine, winter oil and white oil, oleomargarine being the product of starine The white oil 1 Is the chief ingredient in compound i lards. The original oil, also known as soap stock, has fatty acids used in 1 the manufacture of soaps, roofing tar, paints and glycerine, and from l this comes the explosive nitroglycer- i inc. l might also add that the meal aside from it's use as cattle provender, l is transformed into bread, cake, crack CTS and even candy. Last of all comes i the doctors, who are saying that the wonderful seed is a boon to the sick, 1 since from it's oils an emulsion is pre- l pared that has been known to be of value in tuberculosis and other ail- ments.
 If these by-products of the cotton plant are added to the almost count less uses to which the white fiber it. self is put, the list would be of a l length to provoke the wonder of the average man and woman Aside from the part that cotton plays in the wear ing apparel of civilization it is en- cOuntered in a thousand and one other l forms that are not impressive because they are so common and at almost every point where human vision may chance to rest. It is next to impossi- ble to get away from cotton; one rubs up GG inst 1t from the time he gets out of bed in the morning until he draws the coverlet over himself again at night; it is indispensable to tta bath, and while we talk loosely about table linen, very few breakfast tables escape some contact with cotton; 1t is in every room of the house in some shape; as he passes out of his front door 1t stares at him from practically every window; it Is In the street car, the ferry or the railroad train that takes him to work; in the book or magazine that he reads meantime; it is all about the store or office or other place of business; the street vendors are hawking it in hundred forms; it is in almost every show window; 1t bobs up at luncheon; it is somewhere 1 Ill tue horse HdFuSSS ana III the dutO- mobiles trappings, the shoe shine has to have it; to the scrub lady it Is an absolute necessity; every barroom, cafe and court room has its meas ure of the staple; it confronts the diner out and the diner at home the clubs and hotels are fairly loaded with it in forms too numerous to men, tion; the theaters, both the audito- rum and on the stage present it in vast variety of shape and color; the new born infant Is put into swaddling clothes of cotton and the body is laid to rest in 1t; the clergyman, the pugilist, the barber, the baker, the butcher, the manicure and the burglar all find it handy in their business; the sailing craft, the balloon, the steamship and the aeroplane use 1t in the aggregate in enormous quantities; the jail and the sanctuary must have cotton we dance in it, swim in it, pray in 1t, and it is in ever increasing demand the world over.
 Mj1ch Erace