The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-09-03
STATE SUPERVISION
ASKED BY CRUSHERS
Trade Cotton Seed Will be Regulated by Department of Agriculture For
low;ns Conference of Mill Men and Farmers Representative
With Commissioner.

an effort is to be made this year unner
official State supervision to provide Tor
an intelligent and careful marketing
of the seed to be crushed and convert
ed into oil and into meal and huils.
South Carolina is to be the first State
in the United States actually 70 90
something that has been talked ABOUT
for some years by both the sellers OF
cotton seed and the cotton seed manu-
facturers throughout the cotton belt:
Heretofore the buying Of cotton SEED
has been upon thoroughly unbusiness-
like basis. Buyers scattered over the
State gathered the seeds from the
farmers, irrespective OF condition or
quality, buying on commission and
deductions being made by the mills
for bad seed upon the arrival OF car
load lot at the plant. The policy has
been thoroughly cut-throat policy.
In the State OF South Carolina an
average of about $50, 900 tons of seed is
crushed annually, yielding about l6O,-
900 tous OF cotton seed meal. All but
about 40, 900 tons of it, according to
official figures, is used for fertilizers,
the 10000 tons being used for feed pur'
poses. No seed is bought outside the
State and the production OF seed IN the
State is not sufficient to enable all the
mills to run to capacity.
GENESIS OF MOVEMENT.
At the recent meeting of the South
Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers' Asso-
citation at Lake Toxaway, N. e., a
special committee, consisting OF b. r:
TAYLOR of columbia, ]. j. Lawton OF
Hartsville, John T. Steven OF Kershaw,
John A. II Hudgens of Pelzer and Il. G.
Brown of Augusta was appointed, fol-
lowing an address by Commissioner
Watson, in which the importance OF
utilizing this concentrate feed properly
was stressed 10 look carefully into the
matter of better marketing of cotton
seed and to adopt if possible a practll-
cal scheme for grading cotton seeo,
ana a scale of deductions for "ot"
seed.
This committee few days ago re-
ouested a conference with Commission
er Watson, J. N. Harper of Clemson
college and E w. Dabbs Of the South
Carolina State Farmers Union. The
conference was called for 5 O'Clock yes
terday afternoon in the offices OF the
department of agriculture at the State
house. All were present with the ex,
ception of President Dabbs, who could
not get to Columbia, but who had re-
ouested Commissioner Watson TO rep
resent the farmers union at the con-
ference. BY invitation OF Commls-
sioner Watson, however, j. Whltner
Reid, State secretary, attended the
conference, as did also W. 3. West,
assistant secretary of the crushers' as
sociation, and A. G. Summers, State
chemist.
B. F. Taylor, secretary of the seed
crnshers' association, thoroughly pre-
sert the matter. outlining the difficult
ties now encountered in securing the
seed, and showing how it is impossible
TO secure prime meal or good OIL from
good seed mixed indiscrlrninateiy with
damaged seed. he pointed out the
increasing tendency toward the use OF
meal for feed purposes and stressed the
importance to the agricultural industry
of the State for meal to be made OF
such a quality that the maximum OF
benefit TO the animal will result. he
frankly went into the details of the
milling business and showed the nec-
essity for an intelligent method OF pur.-
chasing seed by grade for the mutual
benefit of the farmer and manufeYc-
turer. Secretary Taylor outlined
briefly scale for grading which ne
said had been agreed upon by the COM
mit,ee as fairer than methods hereto
fore employed and one that he consid-
cred would meet with favor 90 the part
of all the Independent mills.
J. n. Harper of Clemson college
pointed out the great value OF cotton
seed meal as basis of real live stock
industry and said that he hoped that
the dav would come when every pound
of good meal would be pessed through
an animal before reaching the roll and
that the bad seed should be returned
TO the soil without being sent TO the
mill.
PRESENT METHODS DEPRECATED.
Commissioner Watson-speaking in
q triple capacity, as representa-? tne
department OF agriculture, and prlmar-
ily the agricultural interest. the State
farmers union and the manufacturing
industries of the State-said that as yet
the consumption of meal for feeding
purposes was mere bagatelle, or only
&. $500 tons, against $1,000 the proceed
iny wear. II was true that he was re:
curing meal for feed 10 be made Of
sound seed so as to not do the anima.
more harm than good, but the demand
was greater for meal for fertilizer and
10 that regard it made very little differ
erence so far as the meal was concern
ed whether the seed was damaged OF
not. He had already appealed TO the
crushers to manufa cure feed mea! ou!
OF sound seed, he said. He said he hao
long deprecated the "cutlhroaL" meth
DDS employed by the mills IN the State
in huv1np cottou seed. He cited IN