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some States laws were passed requiring ginners to 

 clear away the seed, the rotting piles otherwise be- 

 coming offensive to the neighbors ! 



Now, however, the value of this part of the crop 

 has assumed enormous proportions, and offers a 

 revenue to the Southern farmer not inconsiderable, 

 even when compared with the value of cotton lint 

 itself. 



I Seed cotton contains about one-third lint and 

 two-thirds seed. The crop of 1905 of 10,697,013 

 bales of cotton would mean about 5,850,000 tons 

 of seed. This valued at $16. 00 per ton, a reasonable 

 estimate, gives us a commercial value of $88,600,000 

 in the raw state, while this value of course is greatly 

 increased in the finished product. 



And to think that this product as we have just 

 said once rotted at the gin or was washed away in 

 creeks and rivers forever lost to the soil and to the 

 world ! 



WHAT IS IN A TON OF SEED COTTON 



Only an estimate can be made, since the pro- 

 portion of lint to seed varies with different varieties 

 and different soils ; but taking the general rule that 

 "cotton thirds itself," in one ton of seed cotton 

 the/e should be 665 pounds of lint and 1335 pounds 

 of seed. This seed would yield when prepared 

 and manufactured about 489 pounds of meal, 18 

 pounds of linters, 187 pounds of oil, 561 pounds of 

 hulls, and 80 pounds of waste material such as 

 water, dust, and sand. 



With the exception of the waste, all of these are 

 commercial commodities, and to-day find markets 

 wherever fertilizers are used, live stock are grown, 

 or civilized people are known. 



