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MANUFACTURES. 



ing last year of more than 15,000 tons for consumption there. Mr. Thos. 

 Rose (see Dr. "Watson Forbes' Report on Cotton Gins, Vol. II., p. 415) gives 

 the value of that cake in England as £10 per ton, which would be $48 50. 

 The following table gives the comparative value of cotton seed meal and 

 corn meal, from the German fodder tables : 



Here the proteine matter and fats, which go to form flesh, fat, milk, 

 butter, and cheese, are valued at four and one-eighth cents per pound, 

 and the carbohydrates, which support respiration, at nine-tenths of a cent 

 per pound. From this estimate it appears that when corn meal is worth 

 seventy-seven and three-quarter cents per bushel for stock feed, cotton 

 seed meal is worth $72 per ton, or just three times its price at the oil mill 

 in South Carolina. 

 ■ The product of a ton of cotton seed is stated as follows : 



Thirty-five gallons of oil, value forty cents per gallon . . $14.00 

 Seven hundred and fifty pounds cake, at $24 per ton . . 9.00 

 Twenty-four pounds lint, at six cents per pound .... 1.44 



$24.44 



No count is made of the 1,000 pounds of hulls ; they furnish fuel needed 

 in the process of manufacture. From this estimate, the value of the pro- 

 ducts of the manufacture of the cotton seed crop of South Carolina would 

 be $6,295,000. If the English value for the cake was instituted, this 

 amount would be $8,643,000, or by the German estimate of the value of 

 the cake, it would be $10,552,000. 



Heretofore the chief obstacle to the successful operation of cotton seed 

 oil mills has been the difficulty of procuring a supply of seed. The in- 

 creasing facilities of railroad transportation will, to some extent, remove 

 this difficulty. The diffusion of more accurate information among the 

 cotton growers and ginners must convince them that they will gain enor- 

 mously by disposing of their seed at present prices, and buying back the 

 meal as stock feed, or to be employed directly as a fertilizer. Nothing 

 heats and rots more rapidly than cotton seed, especially when fresh 



