Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-03
VALUE OF COTTON SEED.
Worth About one-Fifth as Much as
the Cotton Crop.


| The farmers of the south will re-
ceive this year for the seed from their
cotton approximately s165, 900, 900, at
least one-fifth as much as they will
receive from the fieecy staple itself
Within the memory Of men still COM
paratively young the seed from the
entire cotton crop, with the excep-
| tion Of the few saved for planting the
next crop, were regarded as a bother
and nuisance and were used to fill
gullies or thrown into waste places
Later in their raw state they were
used for fertilizer and even a few
years ago when cotton seed crushing
had got a fairly good start 20 cents
bushel was regarded as an excel
lent price and the returns were re-
garded as ''velvet" by the farmers
The seed this year Is selling for 40
cents to SO cents a bushel.
There are in the south today sew
eral hundred plants for crushing the
oil from cotton seed. Three large
corporations are engaged extensively
In the manufacture Of the products
Of the seed, these three alone owning
nearly four hundred crushing mills
and quite a number of reflneries
These companies are the Southern
| Cotton Oil company, the American
Cotton OIL company and Proctor &
Gamble. The scores Of other mills in
the south sell their crude oil to these
larger companies or to independent
refineries and the packing houses.
The ordinary mill turned out three
products from the seed-hull, meal
and crude oil. The hulls and meal
are sold to farmers who mix them
themselves for cattle feed, while the
/ crude oil Is sold to the large COM
panies or to refineries, etc. In some
Of the large mills the meal and hulls
are scientifically mixed and blended
into boveta and other balanced cat
tie feed which has within, the last
year or so been shipped to the east
ern states to dairymen and stockmen,
while, by the introduction Of corn,
| rice, bran and a small amount Of mo-
lasses, horse feed resembling oats
in its constituency is made, and this
product, called scocotes is becoming
quite popular with those who pur-
chase instead of raise their horse
feed.
Cotton -four for human consump-
ton was manufactured for the first
time last fall and winter. 1t Is made
by rather expensive process and has
not been put on the market as a
cheap product. Its claim to favor
lies in the fact that 1t contains
very high per cent Of protein, a large
er proportion, In fact, than almost
any other article known, while the
proportion Of starch Is exceedingly
small. The flour is so rich that it can
not be made into bread by itself, but
Is mixed with wheat flour or corn
meal. Mixed with wheat flour in the
proper proportion it makes a bread
that resembles graham bread.
The oil Is by far the most valuable
product Of the seed, being worth
probably three times as much as all.
the other products put together. Few
people have any idea Of the large
number Of uses to which cotton seed
oil is put. When the crude oil Is re-
fined the -four oil results with soap
stock as the by-product. This by
product Is worked into several mar
ketable products, including soaps,
pitch, paints, glycerine and others,
while new uses are constantly being
found for it.
The refined oil has many products
but the most important are the cook.
ing fats.-Wall Street Journal.