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COTTONSEED
Mornie Tom, come on in and rest yourself. Here, take this
rocker; them straight•backed chairs ain't comfortable a 1
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Say Tom! I we to town yesterday?
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You know Tom, when us farmers buy cottonseed meal
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hu114o feed our stock, we are buying plain cottonseedomms
one of the most important ingredients, cottonseed oil. How do I
know? Why, I went through one of them thsre cottonseed oil mills
yesterday You know Sam Burns, that tall, lanky feller pholused
to work for ole man Holmes. Well, he's working at the mill and
he took me through, told me exactly what they do with them
cottonseed we sell 'em. Here, fill up your pipe with some of this
here homemade; and I'll tell you as near as I can what that feller
Burns told me when we were goin' through the mill. No there ain't
a match on the place. Here, let me get you a coal out of the fire-
place. I told Mandy to get some matches from the peddler, but she
AIIIIIMMIK did'nt. Said she didtnt have enough eggs to get matches
.and sugar both and you know Mandy can't drink coffee without sugar
in it. Oh, about the cottonseed. yeah, I'll tell you jest what he
told me; was jest waitin' till you got your pipe lit.
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Well, you know these oil mills buy cottonseed from us farmers -04610Z
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the mill brumesmometitruicssafreight cars. Laborer91 mall,
call,. car unloaders,
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the cottonseed into a screw conveyos41006000.16mmalo dumps lam
into mow a bucket elevator, and from there they go to the
storage bins. An iron framework extends from end to end of the
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storage room, forming *AO of tunnelArich miellOitbbelt is
oving. The seeSare throwed onto this 12,144, two
men, andl\harried through several mac nes ,remove the
dust and dirt from tp. Thene4r.1124e'
tothe ginlip
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,.......1.4Wismmitma. You know Tom, they get lots of lint off them seed, after
they have already been ginned once; and bale.6
and sell it just
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li e we term, cotton. Take that old wore.out gin of John R'ag It
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our seed. We sell plenty of lint with our seel9 ye just
don't know it ell, as I was tellint you, the cottonseed go through
the linter gins, an hen fall into a conveyor
carries them into
the hopper of the hull separator machine. The mechanism of this
machine cuts the hulls from the meats, the hulls goin' out of the
machine one way and the meats anotlAlteThe meats fall into a conveyor
and are carriedd to a big pot like thing AOR this feller Burns
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called a cooker. op know Tom, I diA'nt know the inside4of cottonseed
was cooked before they made meal out of it, did you? Well anyway,
they are. This Burns feller is called the cooker operator. It is his
job to add Wer to the meats of the seed when it is needed during
the cooking15.'How long do they cook 'em? Oh, I think he told me about
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an hourf Anyway after they are cooked they are put into a press,.I think
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he called it a hydraulic presawand all the oil is pressed out.
You know they put a piece of cloth around the cooked meats before it is
put in the press, and when they come out they are in cake form.
He said this cloth was called
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made cloth out of-calpels did
camrsa's hair cloth. I didtnt know they
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you? Anyway when the cakes are zeinegiod=faiem
the press, they stri e cloth off
a breaker machinew00107 breaks them
to have a machine to break them up?
a rock after they are pressed.
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of 'em, and them put lisem through
into small pieces. Why do they have
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Why Tom, them cakes are erlsompt hard as
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1Well after the cakes are broker up, t'Impleimme carriepw_
to aa:!:Eagt!4ank. They got another tank sittin'aong side of thi$
tank t406, got bran in it. They mix this bran and the cakes together
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and grind it into cottonseed meal.Ulhat kind of bran? Why, its
nothing but cottonseed hulls ground up real fine, that's all.
Well, as I said
machine, and
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the cakes an1 bran are ground together by a grinding
ried by a conveyor and dumped into a large
hopper up over what they call an automatic scale. You know Tom,
that is the durndest contrapshun I ever see'. They put a hundred
pound sack over a short chute and this automat scale dumps a
hundred poundsof meal into the sack at a time Well, after the
meal is dumped into the sack, a feller sews up the top of the saok
with a b needle and heavy cord, and that is about all there is
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to it. What happens to the hulls? oh yeah, I forgot to tell you
about them. Well, like I told you a while ago, the hulls are cut
off the meats in the hull separator, and th40 the hulls are carried
by driggeyor to the hull packer.There's nothing much to packing
the hulls into sacks. They just put a sack on a chute and the
machine packs the hulls in; then the top of the sack is sewed together
just like the meal sacks. Sam Burns told me that some of the oil
mills had machines that ground the hulls into bran, but this mill
don't have one. They bv e bran that they mix with the cakes to
make the cottonseedomeal. Here comes Mandy with some of them teacakes
I been smellint all morning.Apre Tom, take some. If anybody can
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make good teacakes its Mandy. Dolit hurry Tom, we'll have some dinner
after while. You say you want to borrow myocross-cut saw. Its out
in the wood sheds, ,spick it up as you go by. Saylyou-all goint to the
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singing Sunday, Yeah, guess we'll go too. Old Nell is tied in the
wood shed; don't let her bite you. Well cope back when you can set
longer, Tom, and bring the wife and kids over.