The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-01
WIDE USE OF COTTON SEED
Few People Have Any idea of Many
Uses Once Despised Article 10
Now Put-Boon TO Sick.

Capt. B. j. Holmes Of New Orlean.
has been quoted By the Baltimore
american as saying that not one mar
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 ey.
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 bulls
making the best and most fattening
iced for cattle that has been found.
From the linters are gathered mate.
rial for mattresses, felt, wads, paper,
rope and grade Of underwear, and
likewise ce1lulose, 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
such as salad oil, starine, winter oil
and white oil, oleomargarine being
the product Of starine. The white oil
is the chief Ingredient in compound
iards. The original Oil, also known
as soap stock, has fatty acids used In
the manufacture Of soaps, roofing
tar, paints and glycerine, and from
this comes the explosive nitroglycer-
Inc. might also add that the meal
aside from its use as cattle provender.
is transformed into bread, cake, crack
ers and even candy. Last OF all comes
the doctors, who are saying that the
wonderful seed is boon to the sick,
since from its oils an emulsion Is pre-
pared that has been known to be of
value In tuberculosis and other all
ments.
Il 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
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 thousand and one other
forms that are not impressive because
they are so common and at almost
every point where human vision NAV
chance to rest. It is next to imposst.
BILE to get away from cotton: one rubs
up against 1T from the time he gets
put Of bed in the morning until he |
draws the coverlet over himself again |
at night; it is Indispensable to the
bath, and while we talk loosely about
able linen, very few breakfast tables
escape some contact with cotton: 1t /
8 IN every room of the house In some
shape: as he passes out OF his front
1oor 1t stares at him from practically
svery window; II Is III the street car.
he ferry or the railroad train that
axes him to work; in the book or
magazine that he reads meantime: 1t
all about the store or office or other
'lace Of business; the street vendors
re hawking It in hundred forms; it
In almost every show window: II
,obs up at luncheon; 1T Is somewhere
n the horses harness and In the auto
mobiles trappings, the shoe shine has
o have It: to the scrub lady 1t Is an
bsolute necessity; every barroom,
afe and court room has its meas
re of the staple; 1t confronts the
liner out and the diner at home: the B
lubs and hotels are fairly loaded With
in forms too numerous to men.
lon; the theaters, both the audito-
lum and on the stage present 1t In
asst variety Of shape and color; the
ew born infant Is put into sWaddling
lothes Of Gotten and the body is laid ,
, rest in it; the clergyman, the i
ugilist, the barber, the baker, the s
utcher, the manicure and the burglar
Il find 1t handy in their business: j
le sailing craft, the balloon, the
and the aercplane use It in
lie aggregate In enormous quantities;
lie jail and the sanctuary must have
1tton; we dance In it, swim In IT
ray In 1t, and 1t is In ever Increasing
emand the world over.