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Probably no single research organiza­ THE TEXAS ENGINEERING tion anywhere, however, has either the diversified EXPERIMENT STATION staff and facilities or the ample funds necessary to do justice to all aspects of the cotton and cotton A paper for presentation at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Cotton Research Congress, July 26-28, 1951 seed problem. Limitations of research emphasis and interests are usually influenced by such things as Prepared by ARTHUR W. MELLOH, Vice-Director Texas Engineering Experiment Station policy statements written by governing boards, the College Station, Texas qualifications of staff, the nature of available facili­ ties, and the sources of supporting funds. In our Introduction own case, that portion of the research program of The principal purpose of this paper is to describe the Texas Engineering Experiment Station devoted briefly the program of research in cottonseed proc­ to cotton seed is concerned primarily with processing essing now being conducted by the Texas Engineer­ and utilization, though every attempt is made to ing Experiment Station. In order to have a basis for maintain an active interest in the agronomic and evaluating the present program, you should know economic features of the whole problem as well. something of the history of our cottonseed research Research in cottonseed processing on this campus activity, what the objectives of our program are, and has been underway at least since 1924.1 Most re­ what facilities are available for carrying out re­ search programs of this number of years standing search in this technological field. have passed through several stages of development, A program of research designed to serve all of and bear the distinct imprint of many individuals the groups interested in the products that are, or and organizations that have cooperated to make the can be, obtained from cottonseed would indeed be program possible. Some of those who have been in­ comprehensive. Included in such a program would be strumental in furthering this work here at Texas studies of everything, intentional and unintentional, A. and M. will be mentioned at appropriate times. that happens to the seed after it is separated from The contributions of those who, for reasons of space the lint cotton at the gin. Specific problems would limitation, are not named are no less significant, be seed handling and storage; cleaning, delinting, no less surely recognized, and no less sincerely ap­ hulling, separating, rolling, cooking, and other pre­ preciated. liminary operations appropriate to each of the sev­ Since 1945 the major portion of this program has eral types of oil extraction process; the extraction been coordinated through the Texas Engineering processes themselves— hydraulic, solvent, and screw- Experiment Station. It is our current research, to­ press either singly or in combination; and utilization gether with that of the past few years, that will of the end products— oil, cake, hulls, and linters. undoubtedly be of most interest to you, and it is Specific projects established within the framework that portion of our work which will be described in of such a program would have an economic as well some detail. Those of us on this program from Texas as a technical flavor, and would range all the way A. and M.