Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-08
COTTON AND THE NATURE OF
THE BI-PRODUCTS

They said to be of just great food value for
stock as timothy hay. Formerly they were burned
for the potash in them, the potash being used for
fertilizers But their value has been proven too
great for that Their market value is usually about
$40 ton, but it has been at times more than $40.
The value of timothy hay, for which they make an
excellent substitute, is over $50 ton.
The seed meats conveyed from the hullinS
machine to the roller, where they between heavy
crushing rolls They emerge looking like fish scales.
Thence they go to the heater or cooker, where
steam heat melts the oil in them. Next they go to
the sub-heater which keeps them warm until the
former" is ready for them. They are prepared for
the former by being put in camelhair press cloth
(Which costs IS cents pound), which is folded
over them, making them into a wrapped cake. Then
they are "panned" to the press and when the press
is full of cakes Numbering from IL to 16, according
to size) the pressure is gradually applied At
pressure of 300 pounds the surface inch, the oil
begins to flow. The pressure continues until 1t has
increased to $500 or 1000 pounds
GET "a PER CENT OF THE OIL
When this pressure is reached from go to "a
per cent of the oil in the cake has been extracted
From the maximum of 1000 pounds (Which is
sometimes greater) the pressure is gradually re-
leased The cakes taken out the press cloth is
stripped from them, and they are piled up at one
side to dry. After they dried, they are ground
into meal, and in that form sacked
This meals sells at about $2S ton, and is useful
mainly for fertizing and for cattle feed. For the
latter purpose authorities said to place It's
value at IL or times that of corn. 1t is said
to be the richest cattle feed in protein and fat and
the contention is that it's true relative value to corn
and wheat bran is about $50 ton.
Georgia is using this year about 100000 tons Of
cotton seed for cattle feeding Yet fully 30 per
cent of the meal is exported to other states. Those
who are most deeply interested in the cotton seed
oil industry insist that Georgia should consume the
whole output of meal from her mills This explains
why the cotton seed oil men thoroughly alive
to the Importance of the cattle industry and are do
ing everything they can to encourage it's spread in
Georgia-by assisting with the propaganda of tick
eradication, and by other methods. 1t means to
them home demand for all their meal product
OIL IS REFINED, ~
The oil that comes from the press is crude
From the press it goes to the refinery where it is
made into different grades of refined oil-summer
yellow white, winter whittier, summer white. salad
and butter oils The refined oil is sold by the pound
at from 1-2 to IL cents per pound.
The crude oil is sometimes not refined, being use
full in its crude state for the manufacture of paints
and soaps. [-f,.-5
The refined oil is sometimes deodorized and made
into compound lard 1t is used also, in mixture
as an Illuminating oil for miners. AS a cooking OIL
it sells for IL cents less per pound than hogs lard
and those who make it (and many unbiased author
tes) claim that it is much healthier than the lard
There is greater demand abroad than here for
the oil of cotton seed Last year 100000 barrels
exported. This year the expectation will be prob
ably 100000 barrels.