1 June, 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 463. 
treating seed by delinting and hulling the seed by mechanical means. It also 
leaves the hulls and the lint in condition for paper stock of a very high quality. 
This stock is worth from 1 to 2 cents per Ib., ail the kernels are in condition 
for reduction to meal for extracting oil. In both these processes the chemical 
solution may be used repeatedly by maintaining in strength. 
“Now, in regard to extracting oil from cotton seed, the first process of 
treating cotton seed by the chemical solution is carried on two steps further, 
and the oil extracted therefrom in three steps or operations, as against ten steps 
under the present most approved methods known to the art, as defined by D. 
A. Tompkins in ‘ Cotton and Cotton Oil,’ page 206. The oil extracted from 
the kernel is impregnated with the chemical use for denuding the seed, and 
serves as a factor in the first step of refining the oil, thus serving a twofold 
function. In extracting the oil from the cake it is freed from the chemical, 
and is adapted for use as a food product for cattle or as a fertiliser. 
“The cost of producing crude oil by these methods is reduced 50 per cent. 
And the oil refined is equal to any olive oil on the market, which sells at 80 
cents per quart in sealed cans. The cost of refining is no greater than the 
present cost of refining cotton-seed oil. ot 
“ Another important point is that in the transportation of cotton seed. 
treated by the foregoing processes only the kernel or meat of the seed is 
shipped from the ginnery, thus reducing the weight one-half and the bulk to be 
carried more than two-thirds. The hulls and the lint (1,000 lb. from a ton of 
seed) are worth as paper material from $20 to $40, at the rate of 1 and 2 
cents per lb. This makes a net gain of $9 to $18 over the present practice of 
treating cotton seed to the step of cooking the meal for extracting the oil. 
Besides this there is an additional gain in the saving of the chemicals for 
refining oil.” 
The saving under the process will, it is claimed, permit the payment of 
about $8 (£1 13s. 6d.),a ton more for cotton seed. It is also claimed that it 
means a revolution in the business, and millions of dollars to the cotton farmers 
of the south. It is proposed to organise an independent company and give 
the farmers a chance.—American Fertiliser. 
AN OLD INDUSTRY REVIVING. 
COTTON-GROWING, 
Lecture by the Editor. 
The following is the substance of a lecture on cotton-growing, delivered 
by the editor of this Journal to the Mulgrave farmers at Nelson, North 
Queensland, in March last, and subsequently at Hambledon. As the lecture 
was entirely extempore, we take the report from the Osirns Daily Argus, 
which is practically verbatim :— ; 
Recognising that from his varied experience Major Boyd was well qualified 
to speak on the cotton industry and kindred matters, our representative was 
glad to seize an opportunity, extended with the utmost graciousness, to get 
some information on a subject of great importance to this district. It is well 
to note that our genial visitor considers cotton could be grown very advan- 
tageously in our tropical climate and soil, and would prove a valuable adjune 
to other crops. Indeed, he found that Mr. D. Thomatis, of Smithfield, had’ 1 
acres of South Sea Island cotton growing on his land. The following ample 
information, very kindly furnished to us, is substantially the same as that 
giyen in a lecture delivered by Major Boyd to the Mulgrave farmers at Nelson 
ast night :— 
nee THe Great Corron ConsuMER. Nene; 
The Major commenced by remarking that 135,000 bales of cotton were 
imported into America last year from Japan and Peru. America worked up 
in We cotton mills more cotton than Great Britain. Seven million bales were 
