Arizona republican., 1915-10-26
COTTON SEEDS
 HIGHEST MARK
In consequence of the War It Is Bringing $50 a Ton in SOuth-High Price of Meal in Europe for .AIili- tary Rations.

Cotton seed took a jump the ether day and in Alabama hit the hither- to unheard of figure of $50 a ton In Arkansas the same day cotton seed wen to $40 a ton, and today is selling on an average of $36 q ton in Oklahoma and Texas, all Of which are record figures. AS a con- sequence the cattle business in Kan sas City and it's tributary territory in the corn belt and the southwest is showing an unusual lot of interest today in cotton seed. Kansas City is perhaps the biggest market for cOttonseed meal and other cotton seed feeds in the United States. The big jump in cotton seed affects the whole cattle country. as cottOnseed buds are used largely hy cattlemcn throughout the corn belt and in the range country, says the Kansas City Times.
 Kansas City is no doubt the big gest retail cottonseed meal and cake market in the United States" said Jake" Maurer, a Kansas City cattle man, who is interested in Oklahoma and Texas oil mills. T know of twenty Kansas cattlemcn who buy from five hundred to fifteen hundred tons of cottonseed meal yearly ard there are probably one hundred stockmen in Kansas who feed that much yearly. Kansas, I believe, uses more cottonseed meal than any other state in the union.
 The war-thats the answer to the sudden rise in prices. Why, six weeks ago mills were paying s2.50 a ton for old hulls. Today hulls are selling for S9 ton. The mills cut the lint from them and get six to seven cents d pound for the lint, q big advance in price for that pro duet. which is used n the manutac- ture of high eXplosiVts. A cotton crop about Une-third less than last year and a big European demand for cotLonseed feeds also has op- erated to boost the price. It costs the English. French, Swedish, Dutch CT Danish dairyman or beef producer sS0 to get q ton of cottonseed meal laid down at his door, yet at that price it is the cheapest protein food he can get today and they simply have to take it. Cottonseed meal or cake sells for $32 3 ton al the mill in this country now. East spring it sold for $24 a ton and in the spring of 1914 the price was $l9 a ton.
 The advance Tn the price of cot ton seed is a great thing for the renter in the southwest. IL is q custom that the renter does not have to pay a part of his cotton seed as he does q part cf his cotton for
 Irn the average acre yield will bring tie renter So an acre for his seed, while his cotton is selling at a good l figure, too.
 The southern cotton seed is richer l in oil than the oklahoma seed when | ie higher in protein. ton Of seed ! yields about thirty eight gallons oi oil which sells for fifty-two to fifty 1 three cents a gallon, and is largely l used for cooking and adulteraunS ! other oils. Being cololless and taste | less when refined. it is an admirable | adulterant.
 Cattle feeders in Missouri, Kansas and other feeding parts of the middle west feed about three pounds of cotton seed or Iinseed meal daily to the steer in the feeding periods. Feeders have found one or the other of these q necessary addition to corn, grass and alfalfa.
 There are fifteen cotton seed firms in Kansas City and quite few brokers. They control and rep resent mills throughout the South md in California and frequently Texas and other sottOn states buy eottcn seed meal through Kansas City. Yet this business wasn't known when lots of these men now engaged n it were school boys in Kansas -ity"