The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-05-07
THE COTTON PLANT AND IT'S
~BY-PRODUCTS.

There are comparatively few
who fully realize the pos
of the cotton plant and
its by-products CATER the cotton
and seed have been picked)
when properly treated for recoy-
cry; inefficient treatment and
ignorance of values are usually
the cause of failures to utilize
what is called waste and which
sometimes prove to be of greater
value than the original product.
The cotton plant Of which the
United States of America destroys
annually from Fifty to Seventy
five Million Tons, out of which it
gets practically nothing in return,
but harbors vermin and filth,
which creates disease to such an
extent as to endanger the future
crops. When the stalks are
burned and the land thoroughly
cleaned a slight advantage is
gained in potash and other chem
icals contained in the plant which
is absorbed by the ground as a
fertilizing medium.
Whilst this may seem to be
theory. practical tests have proved
beyond a doubt that when the
stalks are removed and the
ground properly cleaned from
brushs weeds, roots, etc, the
plant, will be healthier, free from
vermin and less liable to the raw
ages Of insects. When land is
freed from filth, prior to blowing
and planting. it DESTROYS the in
sects and their larvae which puts
the ground into better form for
planting as well as facilitates Gull
| tivation.
UTILIZING THE COTTON PLANT.
The Economic Power & Pro-
ducts Company Of Philadelphia is
the owner of numerous Patents
for the utilization of the cotton
plant and has devised means of
opening up an industry that will
extend throughout the entire
Cotton Growing Belt of the
United States, and purposes the
erection of mills and equipment to
manufacture and recover all of
the valuable products contained in
the Cotton plant.
Cotton plant values will vie
with the well-known develop
ment and of the utilization of the
Cotton seed, one of the greatest
American industries of the pres
ent time, producing over One
Hundred~and Fifty Million Dollars
per annum for the planters.
Whilst these figures, obtained
from Government Reports, may
appear large, the utilization of the
Cotton plant will by far exceed
them and prove a boon to the
planter in providing a market for
the hitherto waste cotton stalks,
creating a new revenue at a time
when he is in need of something
to do, and to provide employ
ment for his help. By having a
market for this waste material
which must be removed, provides
the only complete and feasible
way of preventing the accumula-
ton of vermin, thereby elimi-
mating the possibility of disease
and eventually producing a bet
ter staple with better seed, Great
ing a new revenue for the plant
ers, besides being the means Of
bringing a large and valuable
New Industry into the South, pro-
viding employment for an unlim-
tied amount of labor and natural
ly increasing the influx of capital
throughout the entire Cotton Belt.
FOR PAPER MANUFACTURE.
Cotton stalks produce a paper
pulp equal to the best pulp made
from wood and will beyond ques-
ton eventually prove the Cotton
Belt to be the means of supplying
most of the paper mills through
out the United States and prevent
future devastation of our forests.
It will also be the means of the
erection of large paper mills ad-
jacent TO the pulp supply which
will benefit the paper manufac-
turers throughout the entire coun-
try in giving them a uniform and
dependable supply at a reason
able price which may be relied
upon from time to time.
THE BY-PRODUCTS.
By-products of the cotton
stalks are of such an extent and
value as to insure a large output
at good profits for the expense
above the cost of separation and
recovery, consisting of sacharin,
gums, coloring matter, ETC., all OF
which by conversion, separation,
distiilation, ETC., will be creations
of extreme value, supplying pro-
ducts that hitherto have been fur
nished by foreign countries at
variable prices. The residues
from the by-products are recov-
cred so that nothing is wasted;