England's internal wealth and power flows from 
these great sour cob ? 
“ We have five counties in Western Kentucky 
which produce Umonito ores, fluxes, hearth¬ 
stone, fireclay and coal almost in a body, besides 
two of these counties contain valuable deposits 
of lead within thirty foet of the surface. 
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THE 
BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB. 
The cotton steed, as it comes from the gin 
has still some cotton lint. It looks like a white 
cocoon about onc-third of an inch long and half 
as thick. In a mass the seeds adhere slightly 
together and look like a lot of dingy cotton 
waste. From such a heap they aro shoveled into 
a hopper, in which a Bcrew, revolving in a trough, 
divides them into elevating cups on a belt. This 
elovator empties into a revolving screen with 
meshes smaller than the seeds. Here the sand, 
dust, and other small particles ol extraneous 
matter are sifted out and tho seed passed into 
another elevator that empties it into a second re¬ 
volving screen. This has meshes large enough 
to pass the seeds, but too small to pass the cotton 
husks or bolls, sticks, stones, jack-knives, and 
horseshoes, that often come with the seed. 
From there the seed passes into a gin, made ex¬ 
pressly for the purpose, to remove tho short lint 
left on it by tho first giu. An elevator takes it 
to a hufer for removing or rather breaking the 
shell. Tho huller is a heavy cylinder, provided 
with knives, that pass between teeth so close to¬ 
gether that the seeds are cut in two or tlirco 
pieces. The cotton ginned from the seed passes 
to a carding machine, and is there curded for 
use. It is available for butts, and other ma¬ 
terials not requiring Jong fiber. It is used with 
success in the manufacture of cotton blankets, 
which, it seems, arc highly recommended in this 
country. 
Tho cracked seeds pass from tho huller to a 
revolving seive, or separator, that allows tho 
moats to fall in thin flukes, making a meal of 
yellowish-green color. This meal is placed in 
the heaters, which arc iron tanks about four feet 
in diameter and fifteen inches deep. These aro 
double, tho innor vessel being surrounded by 
steam at a pressuro of thirty-live pounds to the 
inch. Tho meal is stirred and heated, being dry, 
for five minutes. This dry heat frees tho oil 
from its envelope. The meal la then B COO pod 
into strong sacks about two foot long and ton 
inches wide, and placed between boards hiugod 
together as tho coverB of a hook are. Several of 
these sacks are then piled under a hydraulic 
press of great force, and squeezed for five 
minutes; they aro then passed to a second and 
heavier press for tho sumo length of time, and 
then to a third press. Tho oil ruus from tho 
pre88os to a tank and settlos daring twelve or 
twenty-four hours. It is then barreled for ship¬ 
ment. The cake of cotton-seed meal is taken 
out of tho sack and stood on the edge in a rack 
to dry during three or four days. Tho cakes are 
then packed in strong sacks or are brokon up 
and ground into meal again to bo shipped in bags. 
The most of it goes to England for cattle food 
and as a fertilizer. Some of it is sold in tins 
country as a fertilizer, at £20 to £22 per ton. A 
ton of seed produces about twenty gallons of oil, 
worth from thirty to thirty-five cents per gallon. 
Tho crude oil thus made is sent to roliners in 
New Orleans, Cincinnati and New York. It has 
a yellow color and a sweet taste of nuts. It is 
used, crude, for painting, and mixed with lard- 
oil for lubricating. It is also mixed w ith some 
lighter oil or spirit for miner’s lamps, for which 
its non-explosive quality makes it valuable. 
When refined it is difficult to tell all its uses. It 
is mixed with many other oils and passes for 
them. In the .South it is much used for cooking 
in place of lard; and many a bottle bearing an 
assuring French or Italian label for olivo oil is 
filled with this product of the cotton plant. 
KENTUCKY MINERALS. 
A correspondent of the BurkHville Courier 
makes a good showing of the underground 
wealth of Kentucky. He says : 
“ We have in Kentucky 4,000 square miles 
more of coal measures than the whole of Groat 
Britain contains. Our quality and quantity of 
iron excel ber's, and it is much nearer the grass, 
and more accessible to natural lines of transpor¬ 
tation. Wbo can doubt that the major nart of 
and Pachincvy. 
• ii was praoueauy demonstrated in 1875 that 
Western Kentucky pig-iron, smelted with a flux 
(fluor-spar, fluorid of calcium, the metalio basis 
of lime), obtained in the vicinity of the iron de¬ 
posits, possessed R tensile durability of 5,800 
pounds to tho square inch greater than iron 
smelted without tho fluor-spar. This result 
was obtained by using two pounds of fluor spar 
to the 100 pounds of iron, and doubtless better 
results can be obtained by using this flux with 
ore in its crude state. Why go out of our Btate 
with our money when we can make more 
profitable investments at home ? Distance can¬ 
not lend charms in a matter of this kind. Min , 
era operating in Bound Mountain, in Cherokee 
County, Kentucky, can produce equal quality 
and quantity and perhaps greater variety of iron 
than Alabama, and produce it and get it to 
market much cheaper." 
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