COTTON'S OTHER CROP 



Company. Besides, he is or has been president of the 

 local Rotary Club, the Sales Managers' Club, the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, and the Y.M.C.A. Executive commit- 

 teeman of Fort Worth's Show celebrating the Texas 

 Centennial, mayor of his city, Harrell has tied a record 

 of unusual achievement to all his many titles. But to 

 compare his accomplishments to those of the humble 

 cottonseed well, Fort Worth is in Texas, and in Texas 

 bragging is the king of local sports where the native 

 toreadors hold all the long-distance slinging records. 



"Togie" has made good. He and every other man in 

 the business admits that. But the cottonseed it has 

 made an industry of some four million tons bulk worth 

 over two hundred million dollars, out of an unmitigated 

 nuisance. No man is that good. Cotton's other crop is 

 one of the South's choicest assets, and except possibly 

 the products of the pine woods, the products of the 

 cottonseed touch more Southerners directly and bene- 

 ficially than any other raw material that originates 

 below the Mason and Dixon Line. That, too, sounds 

 like Texas talk, but here are the corroborating facts. 



It was "Togie" himself who, when he was president 

 of the Texas Cottonseed Crushers' Association, designed 

 a traveling display of one hundred and fifty-one dif- 

 ferent products made from cottonseed. That was back 

 in 1929; today it would not be hard to nearly double 

 that number. An up-to-date exhibit would show such 

 war-born novelties as the chemical furfural for the syn- 



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