Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-28
Mr.. Stevenson. Yes; all of those ac-

season is dry Or too cold, when you
have planted your cotton seed II uUcs
J not gcrminatc and docs not come up
and the seed will die and you will have
TO plant again. Another thing, you
plant about q bushcl Of seed to the acre
and for the last two years seed has
| been worth a dollar u bushcl. This
year =: is worth 25 cents. It will not
cost us so much TO plant but we will
not get SD much for it.
It was at The point when interrupted
when you begin to pick. You begin to
gather when it begins to open, and if
you want your cotton Of a good grade
it must be picked before the rains come
There is scries of crops You pick it
three or four times before you get
through picking. I Forget how many
bolls, but 1 think it takes about 100
bolls of cotton TO make Il pound. You
will notice that: every lock of that
cotton has to be handled by human
hands. There are 12,SOO,O00 bales OF
cotton made thisfyear. This cotton has
the seed in it, of course because it has
not beer. put Though Il gin. It takes
1,4OO pounds of bottom, on an average,
to make a 5G0-pound bale. In other
words you send your hands to the field
and they gather you 1,+00 pouTds OF
that cotton in the seed. 1t is taken
then to The glntnnd l1ln through the
cotton gin, which takes the seed out ut
one end and the, cotton 1T the other.
You getss90 pounds of seed and 500
pounds Of lint from the 100 pounds.
| That is an average. You get more lint
from some kindsi and less from others.
Nine hundred pounds of seed makes so
| bushels. There are 80 pounds to the
bushcl OF seed, SO that you can see that
out Of u bale Of cotton sou have gotten
two products-the lint, which goes TO
the cotton mills IN. my country apd in
New England. in Japan, in China, In
England, and thefsced, which is manu-
factured into oil and feed.
Mr.. White of Kansas. Mr. Chairman,
will the gentleman yield?
Mr.. Stevenson. Yes.
Mr.. White of Kanss. Will the gentle
man please tell us how many pounds CT
cottonsted cake o. meal in its finished
form can be prodhced from an average
acre Of cotton? -
Mr. Stevenson. Yes; I can give the
gentleman the figures, from which he
can calculate it himself. The average
acre of cotton in South Carolina makes
half bale. That means 15 bushels OF
seed. A ton of Sc ID; makes 800 pounds
Of meal, 900 pouryss Of cake.
Mr.. White Of fasgi::raas- How many
pounds in the bushcl?
Mr.. Stevenson. There are 30 pounds
in a bushel On n hal! bale OF cotton
| you have $50 pounds Of seed. and it
turns out Is per cent meal that Will
make about 200 pounds Of meal from
the cotton on am acre Of land. shal!
DISCUSS the seed now fur Il moment,
The seed is put through the mill, which
takes the hull of, and gentlemen nrc
,lcr!ectly welcome to take tits cotton
which have here and do what they
p,case with il when 1 arl through WIFE
! it. The hull is taken off the seed, anu
that makes very good grade Of COW
| feed, not as rich III protein, believe
ihrr call il, as The meal Itself, but th!.
| ~. tl1,, Var
MS. After they have taken the hull Oil
then they grind the Scrm which you
| Will find inside Of the seed, the yellow
scrln and they put that into IL press
under tremendous pressure and press
tho oil out uf it, ana there arc refined
from that oil two grades Of oil.
That which, [ hold in my hand is thS
primc white, out Uf which they make
TIC lard. 1t makes II very much better
| lard than that which comes from the
hog 1t is clean from the day the seed
| is put into the ErnInd until ii Is
brought 10 this condition. This other
is prime summer yellow. Then there
is another product, the waste, That
Comes OF and is used for sOap. y great
deal ne the soap Of this country Is
made out uf the waste that comes from
the refining OF these oils. There Is Il
lot OF this oil that YOU get as olive Oh.
| 1t goes in tremendous quartltlGs |"
| Spair, France and llaiy, and there is
converted by their process uf handling
| 1.