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with more pleasing potent:alities was
buried beneath the surface of the


buried beneath the surface of the
lands grazed over by the herds.
In like manner it is to be supposed
that the pioneers of the cotton seed
industry never suspected or dreamed
of the real secret of cotton seed.
Early Makeshifts and Purposes.
With machinery that was built for
another purpose, or with improvised
makeshifts they crushed the seed for
the meal to be fed to Danish COWS,
or Swedish dairy herds; later for tho
oil that was used in various ways in
cheap products. 1t was not until
many years later that the hulls were
found to be feed" by Texas ranch
or with an empty granary.
But crude as this all was, it served
q purpose. 1t attracted chemists and
men with inventive brains. They said
Eve will seek and find the real
secret of cotton seed"
They did.
One Hundred and Fifty Products.
The progress was slow, and is yet
in vogue, but the world knows the
value of cotton seed with it's $50
products of which more than one
third are eaten by man and beast,
and the greatest part of this third
by man.
Science and invention have COM
bined to convert a worthless product
into world wide commodity. 1t is a
product of the rich, yet at price
that is within the reach Of the poor.
1t is an aristocrat of the South, yet
as democratic is the South ever boast
ed.
II the stranger, encountered at the
beginning of the story should return
his question would be idiotic, rather
than absurd.
What He Would Find Today.
He would sit down to table which
is groaning under bountiful array
of culinary art. The most delicious
fluffy biscuits; the crispest fried
chicken; the salad with incompar-
able dressing. pie with crust that
would melt in his mouth; and cake
inimitable in flavor and texture, all
owing their delicacy and flavor to the
cotton seed.
He would sit in a chair upholstered
with a material very much like leath-
er, and as attractive and durable, yet
from the cotton seed. He would see
linoleum on the floor, paper on the
walls and a roof over his head, all
extracted from the one-time worlds
greatest nuisance, the cotton seed.
1t Would Touch His Every Move.
He would listen to photographic
reproduction of great artists rem
dition, on record made Of cotton
seed. The windows in the house are
secured with cotton seed putty, ano
the house is electrically lighted with
cotton seed insulation.
He has cotton seed candle to light
his way to bed, bath with cotton
seed soap, and sleeps on cotton
seed mattress. He makes his toilet
with ivory made from cotton seed,
arranged on a dressing table that
owes it's lustre and attractiveness to
the cotton sed varnish with which it
is finished. He has an appetizins
breakfast, large part of which is
cotton seed, Later he views great
display of horses, mules, beef cattle,
milch cows, sheep, swine and poultry
all waxing fat on cotton seed. He
takes trip over the farm and sees
crops displaying all the wonders of
nature and bespeaking an incompar-
able richness of sofia soil that has
been made productive by cotton seed
fertilizer
And Yet He Marvels.
He goes hunting and bags his
game with smokeless powder made
from cotton seed. He takes photo
graphs of the places and things Of
interest during his ram bles, on films
made of cotton seed and sensitizea
with cotton seed products. He dis
covers that the hat he is wearing
is made largely from cotton seed,
as well as the.arifcial silk shirt that
he wears, and the very underwear
that keeps him warm is leeced with
a cotton seed product.
He learns that the aeroplane soar
ing oyer the farm has felt the COM
forting touch of cotton seed, since it's
wings were bathed in nitro-cellulose,
a cotton seed by-product. He writes
his experiences on cotton seed paper,
and returns to the city in an automo-
bile that would be worse than a farm
wagon hut for the cotton seed ele-