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COTTONSEED PROCESSING RESEARCH AT be unrealistic. 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. have an advantage over our out-of-town from the sort of investigation often classified gen- colleagues in that we can provide an opportunity for erically as “fundamental” or “basic” on the one you to visit our several research projects and talk hand, to the very practical and utilitarian on the at first-hand with our staff. We invite you to do this other. To give such a program any semblance of and to see “Research in Action.” completeness, attention would also have to be paid to the activities and trends in such related areas as Research Activities of the Texas Engineering local and world markets; the development of com­ Experiment Station peting natural and synthetic products; and the prob­ The Texas Engineering Experiment Station is one lems of the cotton breeder, grower, and ginner. of the nine separate parts of the Texas Agricul­ The circle is now complete, and we find ourselves tural and Mechanical College System. The prime in­ at our starting place—the separation of seed cotton terest of each part of this System lies in resident into lint cotton and cottonseed at the gin. The point instruction, in research, or in extension work, in one is that no portion of the breeding-growing-process­ or more aspects of the broad fields of engineering ing art can be studied to the complete exclusion of the others, a point cottonseed holds in common with 1 "Resume of the Graduate Work in Cottonseed Processing the many agricultural products which are rendered Performed in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the A. and M. College of Texas,” F. F. Bishop, useful only through complex technological processes. Oil Mill Gazetteer, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 9, 11-15, 30-32, October To attempt such exclusion would, to say the least, 1945. Page 14 OIL MILL GAZETTEER August, 195|

and agriculture. The main interest of the A. and M. In further keeping with our stated objectives, ^ College, for example, is resident instruction at both important phase of our activities is the disseminj, the undergraduate and graduate levels. The objec­ tion of information on engineering subjects. Pj-at, tives of the Station, according to the Rules and tical information for the layman, as well as high] Regulations adopted by our Board of Directors on technical data for the scientifically trained specialist October 14, 1944, a re: is given in the individual numbers of the several 1. “To stimulate engineering education, series of publications issued by the Station. A com. 2. “To investigate engineering and industrial plete list of these publications may be obtained bt problems of importance to the State, writing to the Station, and is available at our bootl 3. “To disseminate information in regard thereto, in the exhibits section of this Congress. Since 19ij and the Station has issued 167 different bulletins, » 4. “To otherwise assist in the industrial develop­ ports, and reprints. Of this number, seven deal -will ment of Texas.” cotton seed and related topics. During a year's time In accordance with these objectives, part of the our total mailing amounts to about 24,000 separatf program of research administered by the Texas En­ publications, nearly all of which are supplied free of gineering Experiment Station is conducted by the charge upon request. teaching departments of the A. and M. College of Texas, largely those departments within the School Research in Cottonseed Processing and Utilization of Engineering. Members of the teaching staff, and That portion of the research program of the Tea graduate and undergraduate students participate in Engineering Experiment Station devoted to cottoc this portion of the program on a part-time basis. seed in recent years may, for purposes of discussion Many of the proj ects organized in this manner serve be divided into three parts: as a source of thesis material for graduate students. The remainder of the Station’s program is conducted (1) Projects devoted primarily to various aspects by full-time research personnel who work in labora­ of oil mill operation, economics, and design: tories under the direct control of the Station. The hydraulic and screwpress extraction; andfm work in these laboratories, such as the Cottonseed damental studies of cottonseed oil and othei Products Research Laboratory, the Chemurgic Labo­ products; ratory, and the Fan Testing Laboratory, is also co­ (2) Projects devoted primarily to studies of tlif ordinated with the graduate program of the College solvent extraction process; and when feasible. Special laboratories such as these are (3) Studies of food uses for the cotton seed ani the outgrowth of planned efforts directed to the its products. solution of problems having statewide and regional significance. The first group of projects consists of those con During the two-year period ended August 31, ducted by our Cottonseed Products Research Labfr 1950, a total of 79 separate projects was under in­ ratory under the general supervision of Mr. A. Ceci vestigation by the Texas Engineering Experiment Wamble. This Laboratory is unique in that it not Station.2 These projects were distributed among the only is devoted exclusively to the study of cotton following 17 subject matter fields: seed processing problems but also is equipped will Aeronautical Engineering, Architecture, Chemi­ standard oil mill machinery for conducting expert cal Engineering, Chemurgy, Cottonseed Process­ mental work on a full-scale basis. This Laboratory ing, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Drawing, consisting of offices, analytical laboratories, shops, Freight Rates, General Engineering, Geology, and pilot plant, is housed in its own two-story, rail Highway Engineering, Management Engineering, type building in the heart of the campus. The build' Mechanical Engineering, Municipal and Sanitary ing itself was constructed in 1943 with funds madi Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Soil Me­ available by the Cotton Research Committee ol chanics, and Structural Engineering. Texas and by the College. Much of the pilot plant equipment has been provided by various manufat' At the present time, the number of active projects turers through a cooperative arrangement with tk is 54, o f which 10 are concerned with the processing Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association. This group, and utilization of cotton seed. together with the National Oil Mill Superintendents The size of our research staff fluctuates through­ Association and the Oil Mill Machinery Manufat' out the year, since such a large number of our per­ turers and Supply Association, through such men a sonnel are students and members of the teaching H. E. Wilson, Wharton, C. W. Rankin, Brenham staff of the College who participate in research on H. D. Reeves, Sweetwater, and Jack Howell, Bryan a part-time basis. The average at any one time is as well as others, have had a major part in tlif about 120 for technical and service personnel o f all establishing and equipping of this important cotton grades. About 25 of these are assigned to projects seed research facility. Current responsibility fa involving cotton seed. The over-all program of re­ the operation and maintenance of the Laboratory search administered by the Station is supported by rests with the Texas Engineering Experiment Si* funds appropriated by the legislature of the State tion. of Texas, and by funds made available through con­ tracts with industrial and governmental agencies. The following investigations have recently beer: Our principal contracts in the field of cottonseed or are now in progress at the Cottonseed Products processing are with the Cotton Research Committee Research Laboratory. of Texas and the U. S. Department of Agriculture. (a) Extraction of Oil from Oil-Bearing Materid by the Combined A ction o f Mechanical Press0 5 “ Research Activities for the Sessions 1948-49 and 1949-50; and Solvents (cooperative with the Cotton E* Texas Engineering Experiment Station and School of Engi­ neering of the A. and M. College of Texas,” Bulletin No. 122, search Committee of Texas). Texas Egineering Experiment Station, 74 pp., October 1, 1950. Experiments conducted between September 19^ August, 1951 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 15 ves, at and August 1949 showed conclusively that signifi­ eminj, ment of the extracted residue for separation of meal, cant improvement in oil yield could be obtained by hulls, and linters. • P r a t using prepressing ahead of, and in combination In the process proposed for study, the whole seed highly with, the conventional solvent extraction process. were rolled in flaking rolls and the oil then ex­ icialist The advantages of the combined process were shown tracted with commercial hexane. The extracted seed sevem to be increased plant capacity, reduced solvent re­ were separated into protein and hulls-lint fractions A co®, quirements, lowering of the percentage of fines, and by revolving-drum hull beater and by shaker screen, ned l)j a reduction of residual oil in the cake to less than while the lint was separated from the hulls in de- fibrating machinery. This was to be compared with boot! one per cent. A complete report of these findings is e 1915, the conventional process in which the cotton seed ns, re available/ are delinted by saw-type delinters, the meats rolled al will As a result of our preliminary investigation of after separation from the hulls, and the oil ex­ s time prepressing, the process was introduced into a com­ tracted from the rolled meats. In the whole-seed iparal mercial Texas oil mill as early as May 1948. Using process, essentially all of the oil is subjected to the free ol hydraulic presses for prepressing followed by sol­ extraction process, thus the potential oil yield is vent extraction, the soundness of the technical prin­ greater. ciples involved was thus demonstrated on a com­ The problem involved determination of the tech­ lizatio mercial scale. Subsequent experiments in our labo­ nical feasibility of the process by laboratory and 5 Texas pilot plant studies, and determination of the eco­ ratory showed that the process could be utilized nomic feasibility by estimated cost comparison with cottot economically by performing the prepressing opera­ the cottonseed meats process in current use. The ■ussion tion with an ordinary screwpress. It was further investigation was intended to be only of a prelimi­ shown that such a screwpress when properly modi­ nary nature and to serve as a basis for justifying aspects fied for optimum prepressing work on cottonseed further detailed development of processes based on design; meats could be expected to handle about three times the general idea involved. nd fun its normal capacity with about one-third the electric The experimental phases of the project were de­ I oth e i power consumption per ton of material processed. signed to accomplish the following: (1) determina­ The residual oil in the solvent-extracted cake could tion of the comminution method which would pro­ of tlif be reduced to less than one per cent if the pre­ duce a maximum of extracted oil and at the same time produce extracted solids easily separated into pressed cake were used just as it came from the protein and hulls-lint fractions; (2) determination screwpress. By reflaking the prepressed cake, the ;ed and of the optimum processing conditions during com­ residual oil could not only be reduced to less than minution and extraction; (3) determination of the half of one per cent but the extraction time could best method for separating the proteinaceous mate- »se con also be reduced by a ratio of about four to one. i Lal» Reliable estimates indicate that an oil mill employ­ V . C e c i l ing the solvent extraction process can, under proper FOOD PROCESSORS...MILLERS... ; it not FEED M EN...DISTILLERS... conditions, increase its return by six to seven dollars MALTSTERS AND OTHER cotton per ton of seed processed by using prepressing. That BULK MATERIAL PRODUCERS >d witt the idea is sound, both technically and economically, expeii is borne out by the fact that it appears to have had iratory almost 100 per cent adoption by those cottonseed oil shops, mills employing the solvent process which are either y, mill now in operation or under construction. 3 build (b) Solvent Extraction of Oil from Cotton Seed s madt ELEVATE YOUR Prior to the Removal of Linters and Treatment ttee ol FREE-FLOWING BULK of the Residue to Effect Separation of Meal, MATERIALS THE EFFICIENT, DUSTLESS, it plant CLEAN, QUIET, MODERN WAY WITH.. anufat' Hulls, and Linters* (cooperative with the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Cotton Re­ rith tilt search Committee of Texas). group S t c r e w U I i . ndents The mechanical removal of linters from cotton Imagine— elevating grain, flours, anufat seed prior to extraction of the oil is one of the most starch, dry chemicals, cotton, cotton seed, cork, cereals, peanuts and men® expensive operations in cottonseed processing, and other granular, crushed or pulver­ ized materials through a tube— ef­ ■enham at best less than 90 per cent of the linters are re­ ficiently and without contamination Bryan moved from the seed. Moreover, the linters are more or exposure! Screw-Lift is not just a screw con­ in tlif or less contaminated by hull particles and some oil veyor operating vertically. It Is a patented, foolproof means of taking cotton is lost with the hull. The purpose of this investiga­ material from a hopper, conveying it horizontally any distance, then ity foi tion was to study the possibility of developing a elevating vertically and spouting to orator! process, ultimately feasible on a commercial basis, processing equipment orstorage bins as desired. >nt StJ' for the solvent extraction of the oil from cotton seed Patented stabilizer bearings, placed prior to the removal of linters, followed by treat- at standard length intervals main­ tain perfect alignment. Patented One of the many ways construction at the junctions of the in which a Screw-Lift ly been horizontal and vertical units elim­ inates possibility of choking. can be used. Bagged roducti 11 “ The Extraction of Oil from Oil-Bearing Materials by Pre­ material can be pressing Followed by Solvent Extraction,” H. E. Rea, Jr., . . . You'll be amazed at what a dumped into hopper and A. Cecil Wamble, Research Report No. 11, Texas Engi­ Serew-Lift will accomplish in ca­ and elevated to any pacity delivered. Write us for com ­ floor to processing aterii neering Experiment Station, 9 pp. il., February 1950. plete detailst in Form No. M-.r)00-2. machines or baggers. 'ressua * A report of work done under contract with the U. S. De­ Type"C" Screw-Lift with bottom drive. Typet ton R*- partment of Agriculture and authorized by the Research Screw Conveyor Corporation availablein capacities of and Marketing Act. The contract was supervised by the HAMMOND, IND. 75,300, 1,000 and Southern Regional Research Laboratory of the Bureau of ) FACTUHIRS 2,500 cu. ft. per hour —to suit your layout. er 194! Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry.

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S ta te (Samples sent on request) August, 1951 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 17 rial from the hulls and lint; (4) determination of For every three pounds of lint cotton produced, the quality of oil, meal, and lint in comparison with about one pound of hulls appears as a by-product. the quality of the products produced by standard New commercial outlets for such by-products are processes; and (5) comparison of the operation of continually being sought, although the economic sit­ the extractor on comminuted whole seed and on uation at any given time usually is the factor which rolled meats. determines the feasibility of such uses. This project was concerned with the properties of untreated Our experimental work showed that the method cottonseed hulls as a heat insulating material. investigated for the processing of the whole cotton seed into meal, oil, hulls, and lint, is less economical Heat transfer determinations made by the shielded than the conventional method. Future development box method gave 0.38 as the average value of the of a market for the hulls-lint fraction as such, how­ coefficient of thermal conductivity in Btu in /ft2 hr ever, would not only make the process economical deg F in the temperature range of 80° to 100° F. It but would also simplify matters by eliminating the was found that for certain ranges of conditions, delinting, hulling, and separating operations com­ cottonseed hulls would be competitive with other pletely. It was further shown that by removing standard loose-fill type materials so far as insulat­ first-cut linters with saw-type delinting machines ing effectiveness is concerned. Complete details are in the usual way and then treating the whole seed, available in a published report." a process economically on a par with the conven­ (d) Relationship Between Variety, Soil and Cli­ tional method resulted. Full details and recommen­ matic Conditions, Grotving Seasons, Cultural dations for further study of the problem are con­ and Harvesting Practices, and the Yield and tained in the final project report to the U. S. Depart­ Quality of Cotton Seed and Its Products (co­ ment of Agriculture.4 operative with the Department of Agronomy, (c) Cottonseed Hulls as an Insulating Material (co­ Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, and operative with the Department of Mechanical the Cotton Research Committee of Texas). Engineering, A. and M. College of Texas, and The principal aim of this project is to study the the Cotton Research Committee of Texas). variations in quality and quantity of manufactured cottonseed products from season to season. Labora­ 4 “Solvent Extraction of Oil from Cottonseed Prior to the tory analyses, together with grade and product eval- Removal of Linters and Treatment of the Residue to Effect Separation of Meal, Hulls, and Linters,” S. P. Clark and A. Cecil Wamble, Final Report to U. S. Department of Agri­ 5 “ Cottonseed Hulls as an Insulating- Material,” W. E. Long, culture, Contract No. A-ls-30131, 102 pp. ilM November 3, Research Report No. 2, Texas Engineering Experiment Sta­ 1950. tion, 12 pp. il., July 1948.

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A small (e) A Study of the Operating Characteristics of Oil molecular still has been constructed and laboratory Mill Machinery (cooperative with the Cotton techniques have been developed which insure the Research Committee of Texas). quantitative recovery of the vitamin being studied, Many unit operations such as cleaning, delinting, A brief discussion of these techniques and related hulling, separating, rolling, and cooking, are per­ topics has been published.7 formed on cotton seed prior to the extraction of the (g ) The Economies of Scale in the Operation oj oil. Each such operation not only serves a definite Cottonseed Oil Mills by Type of Extraction purpose and is carried out with machinery designed P rocess* (cooperative with the U. S. Depart, for the particular function performed, but also has ment of Agriculture and the Cotton Research its own effect upon the quality and quantity of the Committee of Texas). extracted oil. The overall efficiency of an oil mill, Of the three principal methods of extracting oil as measured in terms of the net dollar return per from cotton seed— the hydraulic, the solvent, and ton of seed crushed, is a function of the efficiency the screwpress methods—the first named is the with which each unit operation is carried out, and most commonly used at the present time. With the the latter must be evaluated in relation to its par­ hydraulic method, not only is the residual oil content ticular contribution to the final result rather than of the resulting meal often higher than with the as an isolated process. other, newer methods, but the man-hours of labor Using the full-scale oil mill machinery available required per ton of seed processed are greater. in our Cottonseed Products Research Laboratory Even though the current capital investment in and in cooperating commercial mills, a comprehen­ cottonseed oil mill facilities employing the hydraulic sive study is being made of the characteristics of extraction method is estimated to be in excess of $ machines commonly used in the processing of cot­ billion there is a definite trend toward the use of ton seed. Emphasis is placed upon the effect on the solvent and screwpress methods. Any great shift quality and quantity of products produced and on from the hydraulic method to either o f the other two the capacity and power consumption of the ma­ would entail a considerable economic loss in equip­ chines themselves as a function of variation within ment, changes in marketing centers, and shifts ii the range of operating conditions normally encoun­ labor practices, as well as shifts in costs and meth­ tered in industry. A report has been prepared on ods of distributing the cottonseed products from the rolling operation,11 and preliminary studies of the oil mills. The U. S. Department of Agriculture is delinting and cooking operations have either been in the process of evaluating the economic effects made or are currently in progress. that such shifts in the processing method used would (f) A Vitamin Study of the Cotton Seed and Its have on the entire cottonseed industry, the market Products (cooperative with the Cotton Research outlets, and the returns to growers. In order to Committee of Texas). arrive at a satisfactory evaluaion of the economic problems involved, it is necessary that there be Under investigation is the effect on vitamin con­ available physical input and output data by size of tent (especially vitamin E) in cotton seed and cot­ mill fo r each of the following types of extraction tonseed products of such things as variable factors processes: hydraulic, solvent, screwpress, and com­ in processing, storage conditions, seed variety, grow­ bination screwpress-solvent. The required data, in­ ing conditions, and harvesting practices. Vitamin E cluding detailed layouts, specifications, and per­ is a powerful antioxidant, or stabilizing agent, and formance and cost data for 35 different model mills, hence is effective in preventing rancidity of oil and are being prepared by the Texas Engineering Ex­ periment Station and will be incorporated into tlif 6 “The Effect of Rolling Cottonseed Meats on Oil Extrac­ over-all study by the U. S. Department of Agricu! tion,” H. E. Rea, Jr., and A. Cecil Wamble, Research Report ture. No. 16, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, 17 pp. il., September 1950. (h) Screwpressing of Cotton Seedi (cooperate with the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Cotton Research Committee of Texas). SAVE OVER 50% ON GOOD !: USED BOILERS 7 “ Cotton Vitamin Study Progresses," Texas Engineer®! Experiment Station News, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 6, June 1950. Highest Quality— Inspection Guaranteed * A report of work done under contract with the U. S FIREBOX WATER TUBE HRT Department of Agriculture and authorized by the Reseat'd and Marketing Act. The contract is supervised by the Fa(; I 10— 1000 HORSEPOW ER and Oils Branch of the Production and Marketing AdmiiUS' tration. !; ▼ t A report of work done under contract with the U. S UNITED STEEL PRODUCTS CO. Department of Agriculture and authorized by the Researt and Marketing Act. The contract is supervised by the So# Box 4111 Phone 8-6509 Memphis, Tenn. ern Regional Research Laboratory of the Bureau of Agncu ...... 1 tural and Industrial Chemistry,

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The use of the screwpress method of extracting and other substances from cottonseed meats, and oil from cotton seed has increased in recent months subsequently using a liquid-liquid extraction process to the point where more than 200,000 tons of seed for separating the high grade oil product from the are processed annually in that way. This figure miscella. constitutes about 20 per cent of the total tonnage crushed in this country. With the screwpress method The work indicates that the resulting oil product under proper operating conditions, the amount of may be of uniform quality over a wide range of residual oil left in the cake may be less than that seed quality, and the yield of refined oil will be appreciably greater than that obtained with con­ left in cake produced by the conventional hydraulic method. This difference is definitely significant ventional processes, including extraction with hex­ when translated into dollar returns to oil mill opera­ ane. The results of feeding tests with the meal pro­ tors and cotton growers. duced by the new method have shown that it is of much higher nutritional quality than meal produced With the use of screwpress extraction on the in­ by hydraulic or screwpress methods, or by solvent crease, it has been found desirable to determine the extractions with hexane. Isopropanol was found to answers to a number of questions pertaining to the have other properties which make it a most suitable method: the effects of high temperatures inherent solvent: its ability to extract the toxic substances in screwpressing on color and quality of the oil and found in cottonseed meats, and its low fire hazard. meal produced; the effectiveness of present methods (j) Acetone as a Solvent for Extration of Cotton­ of cooling screwpressed oils and how these methods seed Oil (cooperative with the Department of may be improved; and the degree of permanent Chemical Engineering, A. and M. College of color damage in screwpressed oils and how this dam­ Texas, and the Cotton Research Committee of age can be reduced. Further problems being studied Texas). under this project are the development of improved screwpressing methods which will increase the effi­ An investigation has been made of the efficiency ciency and reduce the cost of operation of screw- of acetone for the removal of oil and gossypol from presses, and obtain better yields and higher grades cotton seed and the subsequent separation of the of end products. pure oil from the extract. From laboratory and pilot-plant studies it has been shown that while the This research, currently in progress, is being extraction efficiency obtained with acetone is some­ conducted partly in cooperation with the Cen-Tex what less than that obtained with isopropanol, there Cooperative Oil Mill, Thorndale, and partly in our is also a reduced heat requirement so that one sol­ Cottonseed Products Research Laboratory. vent is about as economical as the other.1" The second group of projects to be described con­ sists of those devoted to various aspects of solvent 13 “Acetone as a Solvent for Extraction of Cottonseed Oil,” extraction—the basic chemistry of the process, its In-Wai Hui, M. S. thesis, A. and M. College of Texas, June economics, and the design of equipment and selec­ 1950. tion of solvents and operating methods to fit spe­ cific needs. The following investigations, all of which have been under the general supervision of N o w you tan fasten V-belts Dr. W. D. Harris, Professor, Department of Chem­ ical Engineering, A. and M. College of Texas, are by usina representative of our activity in this area. (i) Isopropanol as a Solvent for the Extraction of Cottonseed Oil (cooperative with the Depart­ ment of Chemical Engineering, A. and M. Col­ lege of Texas, and the Cotton Research Com­ mittee of Texas). This project was concerned with the use of iso­ propanol as a solvent for extracting oil from cotton seed. A comprehensive basic and engineering study of the solvent process using isopropanol has been made and reported in the literature.812 Included among the results is the description of a process using isopropanol to extract cottonseed oil, gossypol,

s “ Isopropanol as a Solvent for Extraction of Cottonseed Oil • Alligator V-Belt Fasteners and open-end (long — I. Preliminary Investigations,” W. D. Harris, F. F. Bishop, length) V-belting in rolls will enable you to make C. M. Lyman, and R. Helpert, Jour. Amer. Oil Chemists’ up multiple V-belt drives for a wide variety of Society, Vol. 24, pp. 370-375; November 1947. applications. 11 “Developments in Processing Cottonseed,” W. D. Harris, Available for B. C and D sizes of V-belting. Chemurgic Digest, pp. 9-12; November 1948. Not to be used for repairing endless cord V-belts. 10 “Isopropanol as a Solvent for Extraction of Cottonseed Bulletin V-211 will give you complete details. Oil— II. Separation of Purified Oil from Miscella,” W. D. A copy mailed on request. Harris, J. W. Hayward, and R. A. Lamb, Jour. Amer. Oil Chemists’ Society, Vol. 26, pp. 719-723; December 1949. Order from your supply house 11 “Isopropanol as a Solvent for Extraction of Cottonseed FLEXIBLE STEEL LACING COMPANY Oil—III. The Use of Recycling to Effect Solvent Economy,” 4687 Lexington St., Chicago 44, Illinois W. D. Harris and J. W. Hayward, Jour. Amer. Oil Chemists’ Also sole manufacturers of Alligator Steel Belt Lacing for flat Society, Vol. 27, pp. 273-275; July 1950. conveyor and transmission belts and FLEXCO Belt Fasteners 12 “ Solvent Extraction of Cottonseed Oil with Isopropanol,” and Rip Plates for fastening and repairing conveyor belts. W. D. Harris, Bulletin No. 121, Texas Engineering Experi­ ment Station, 72 pp., September 1950.

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(k) Design and Development of a New Type Sol­ ducted in our Chemurgic Research Laboratory. This vent Extraction Equipment for Cotton Seed laboratory was established by the 49th Legislature (cooperative with the Department of Chemical of the State of Texas for “ . . . basic investigation in Engineering, A. and M. College of Texas, and Texas raw materials and agricultural products .,» the Cotton Research Committee of Texas). Our work in this area, originally under the super, During the extraction of oil from cotton seed by vision of Dr. B. R. Holland and currently Dr. W. W, the solvent process, using conventional equipment, Meinke, has been concerned with the production of considerable quantities of very small particles of essential oils from sweet goldenrod and other native meats, technically known as “fines,” are formed. Texas plants and shrubs, uses for the protein fro® These particles are difficult to separate from the the Chinese tallow nut, and the utilization of rice liquids in which they are suspended and give rise to bran. During the past year a study of possible food certain operating and maintenance problems. While uses for cotton seed has been in progress. these problems may be eliminated by using pre­ (m ) Development of Neiv Food Uses for Cotton pressing, it is well known that the necessity for Seed and Its Products (cooperative with the using prepressing is much greater with materials of Cotton Research Committee of Texas). high oil content, and that cottonseed meats contain­ A systematic study is being made of possible ways ing 30 per cent oil probably represent a borderline of producing human food products from cotton seed case. It is natural, therefore, at least as far as cot­ which will be acceptable on the basis of appearance, ton seed are concerned, to seek an improved extrac­ texture, flavor, food value, keeping quality, and tor design which would obviate the need for pre­ pressing. toxicity. The essential function of any type of solvent ex­ Processes for making a sauce, comparable to that traction equipment is to bring about efficient con­ currently produced from soybeans, useful for flavor­ tact between the oil-bearing meats and the solvent in ing soups and vegetable dishes have developed. This a continuous counter-flow fashion. Greatest extrac­ cottonseed sauce (termed “ coy” cause by the experi­ tion efficiency is obtained when the solvent is caused menters) utilizes as ingredients a five to two ratio to percolate uniformly through the bed of flakes of hull-free cottonseed kernels and parched wheat at maximum allowable velocity, the latter being de­ For commercial production two processes have been termined both by the resistance of the flakes to the developed— a relatively lengthy fermentation method flow of solvent and by the allowable pressure drop. and one which utilizes an acid hydrolysate with mo­ The new extractor developed under this project lasses added to give proper color. The product pro­ title is of the traveling screen type. It is so arranged duced by the latter process lacks many of the flavor that the solvent flows upward through essentially characteristics of the fermented product. These horizontal layers of the flakes as the flakes are processes have been described in the literature.14 moved from top to the bottom of the extractor in a continuously moving serpentine stream. Extended Additional research has shown that French-fried tests made at the rate of 60 pounds of meats per cottonseed kernels can serve the function of roasted hour have shown the design to be sound, have pro­ nuts in brittle and fudge-type candies. Methods oi duced meal with less than one per cent residual oil, preparation insuring the production of non-toxi( and have shown that the problems presented by the kernels with satisfactory keeping qualities have been presence of excessive fines are absent. Experiments developed. have indicated that the equipment may readily be Current emphasis is being placed on the develop­ scaled up to full commercial size. ment of a satisfactory process fo r producing a (1) The Separation of the Constituents of Crude cheese food from cotton seed. Protein curds similar Cottonseed Oil by the Use of Liquid-Liquid in texture and taste to unseasoned cottage cheesf Solvent Extraction (cooperative with the De­ have been prepared and are undergoing further partment of Chemical Engineering, A. and M. study. College of Texas, and the Cotton Research Com­ Conclusion mittee of Texas). Previous solvent extraction studies have produced T h e forgeoing paragraphs describe the high lights of our program of research in cottonseed processinf a liquid-liquid method for separating relatively pure and utilization. There are always more problems to oil from an isopropanol extract of cotton seed. The objective of this project is to extend the method to be investigated than can be effectively undertakei the separation of other valuable constituents occur­ with available funds and facilities. For every one answer obtained, several new questions rise to stim­ ring in crude cottonseed oil such as fatty acids, phospholipids, sterols, tocopherols, carbohydrates, ulate the inquiring mind. Our program is believed gossypol, and color bodies. To date, emphasis in the to be typical of what can be done by a public agency experimental work has been on the refining of the whose activities are intended to serve the needs of oil, though some information has been secured on the a geographical area as well as those of an educational separation of a fatty acid fraction and a pure sugar institution. By maintaining a reasonable balance be­ raffinose which normally is not digested by most tween the fundamental and the practical, and be animals. However, this sugar may be hydrolyzed to tween the economical and the technical, the Texas an edible syrup which should make a valuable by­ Enginering Experiment Station hopes to continof product of cotton seed processing. This, as well as to serve the cotton seed industry of Texas and efe other phases of the project, are currently under where through research— “Research in Action.” investigation. “ “Create Food Sauce from Cottonseed,” Texas Engine61' The final project to be described has been con­ mg- Experiment Station News, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 10, June 1M August, 1951 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 21

SESSION ON LIVESTOCK FEEDING Moines. First two days will be devoted to the formal Hudson, Iowa—-A leading feature of the American program at the hotel. Then convention visitors will Soybean Association Convention will be a session on go to Iowa State College at Ames on the third day livestock feedin, Secretary-Treasurer Geo. M. Strayer for a field day at the College agronomy farm and said here today. The meeting, the Association’s swine nutritional research farm. thirty-first, will be held in Des Moines, Iowa, Sep­ The following Iowa State College feeding experts tember 6 to 8. will take part in the feeding session: Damon Catron, Some of the nation’s outstanding college livestock animal husbandry, speaking on hogs; Elton L. John­ feeding experts and an expert from industry will son, poultry department, on poultry; and Wise Bur­ take part in the discussion, said Strayer. The feed­ roughs, chemistry department, on beef cattle. ing session will bring convention attendants up-to- Another speaker will cover new developments in date on the fast-paced developments in livestock feeding soybean oil meal to dairy cattle. The four feeding of recent months, and the part soybean oil talks will be followed by a summary by an industry meal is playing in them, Strayer said. The feature expert who will cover the subject from the stand­ is being held on Friday, September 7. point of the manufacturer and feeder of soybean Convention headquarters will be Hotel Fort Des oil meal.

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National Superintendents Section

OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS that can be had upon request for which a charge of ASSOCIATION $1.00 will be made to cover cost of printing and Bentley H. Page, President ...... Lubbock, Texas Edward L. Nash, Vice-President...... Waxahachie, Texas mailing.— Editor. H. E. Wilson, Secretary-Treasurer...... Wharton, Texas BOARD OF DIRECTORS HUNT MOORE FORMS OWN BUSINESS H. F. Crossno (1 year)...... Los Angeles, Calif. F. C. Vesey (2 years)...... El Paso, Texas We have been advised that Hunt Moore, immedi­ J. R. Huneycutt (3 y e a r s )...... Pine Bluff, Ark. ate past president of The Tri-States Oil Mill Super, W. G. Davis, Jr. (4 y e a rs )...... Los Angeles, Calif. intendents Association has resigned his position as STATE VICE PRESIDENTS general manager of the Delta Products Company of Arkansas...... W. A. Pugh, Sr...... Fort Smith Wilson, Ark., to enter into business for himself as A r iz o n a ...... G. A. Ward ...... Phoenix consulting engineer in the erection of solvent extrac­ C a liforn ia ...... K. B. Smith ...... Fresno tion plants for vegetable oil plants, including cotton G e o rg ia ...... S. U. Fulford ...... Dawson E gy p t...... Neema Naief E m a d ...... Tanta seed, soya bean, and other oil-bearing seeds and nuts, Louisiana ...... H. C. E lr o d ...... Shreveport Mr. Moore has had ample experience in solvent ex­ Mississippi...... C. C. Castillow ...... Greenville traction methods, and should be able to handle a n y New M exico...... N. H. Humphries ...... Roswell extraction problems that will be entrusted to him North Carolina...... R. G. Scruggs ...... Wilson O klahom a...... Jim Wilson ...... Oklahoma City for solving, and we know that his friends, as w ell Tennessee...... E. S. Lyle Dyersburg as the Oil Mill Gazetteer staff, wish him all the Turkey...... R. Gomel ...... Izmir success he deserves in his new venture. North Texas ...... Stewart Spencer ...... Paris South T e x a s ...... Oscar F. B r it t o n ...... Hearne M exico...... L. C. Roots ...... H. Matamoros, Tamps. Salvador F. Rojas, Roving GET YOUR DUES IN NOW Am bassador...... Gomez Palacio DGO Mexico We have billed all members of the National Asso­ OIL MILL MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLY ciation for their 1951-52 dues. A great many of you ASSOCIATION have complied but there is still a large number w h o U. H. Ohrman, President, Texas Power & Light Co.. . Dallas Edward Pflanz, Vice-President, Briggs-Weaver have failed to get their dues into the Secretary, Machy. Co...... Dallas Please let us have your check or money-order in the John Grace, Secretary-Treasurer, Wichita Industrial next mail. This is absolutely the last time we will Machy. Co...... Fort Worth make a call through the Gazetteer columns for your TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CLUB dues, covering the current year. C. M. Chandler, President...... Lubbock, Texas C. L. Stacey, Vice-President...... Shreveport, La. H. E. Wilson, Secretary-Treasurer...... Wharton, Texas CAN YOU HELP THIS MAN? COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN DIVISIONAL MEETINGS Elsewhere in this issue we have a letter from one William C. Whittecar, W est T exas...... Lubbock C. W. Rankin, South T exas...... Brenham o f our subscribers, located in Khartoum Sudan, ask­ M. C. Dimphl, North Texas and Oklahoma Chickasha, Okla. ing for assistance in some of his Hydraulic Press (Other committee members to be appointed by the chairmen) room problems. Will some good oil mill superintend­ ent come to his aid, through the columns of tlif Gazetteer ? Thanks— Editor. THE PROCEEDINGS NUMBER The July issue of the Oil Mill Gazetteer labeled as Convention Proceedings Number, was mailed to WELCOME BACK TO TEXAS members and subscribers, Monday, July 30. The G. D. Wolfenden, is now located in Seguin, Texas issue covered both the National Oil Mill Superintend­ having recently accepted the position as superintend’ ents and the Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents ent of the Seguin Cotton Oil Company. Mr. Wolfen­ conventions proceedings verbatum, which made a den is a past president of our association, and w heavy issue and quite a job to handle. However, we welcome him back to Texas. have received a few very highly complimentary re­ marks on the issue. The Proceedings Issue will be very valuable for filing away for future reference, and should be of considerable value to our younger AMERICAN SOYBEAN CONVENTION members and superintendents, as well as the older ones, as the proceedings of both conventions contain September 6, 7 and 8, 1951, American Soy­ some very interesting papers on the operations of bean Association, Hotel Fort Des Moines, plants in our industry. They should be studied very Des Moines, Iowa; Secretary, George M. carefully by every oil mill operator in the industry, Strayer, Hudson, Iowa. be he manager, superintendent, or employee in the plant. We have some extra copies of the July issue August, 1951 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 23 President Page's Message Gentlemen: As we are about ready to go into the new crushing By the time this letter reaches you, in all prob­ season it certainly behooves us all to make last min­ ability some of you will already have begun your ute inspections of our seed receiving, sterilizing, 1951-52 crushing season. At the present, except for drying and cooling machinery to see that everything those localities which are extremely dry in our ter­ is in order to enable us to receive and handle the seed ritory, we are having some real cotton growing with the least possible delay, and to see that they weather. The cotton insects are a real threat to our are so handled that there will be the very minimum crops at this time, but I believe the crop dusting of deterioration while in storage. and poisoning services are adequate to cope with The construction of our new mill in Lubbock is the situation, in fact they are so active that an early keeping most of the slack out of my schedule, so I operator of one of the planes almost took the chim­ must rack my pen and get on out to the job. ney off the roof of my house about daybreak this morning as he was pulling out of a poisoning run in Yours very truly, a nearby field. BENTLEY H. PAGE

From Vice-President Nash Dear Friends and Members: gain much from these proceedings number pages. I wish to compliment our secretary and editor, At times, I have browsed through an old copy of Harry Wilson, on the great job he did on the July a proceedings number, maybe two or three years issue of the Gazetteer. It is a very nice issue, and old, and have run across information which helped seems to contain everything that was said at the solve an operating problem in the mill. Yes, the cur­ convention. For me, it contains a wealth of informa­ rent proceedings number will be filed away after I tion which I have read and tried to absorb. have completely read it, and, perhaps a year from now, or even next month, information contained Many ideas and thoughts are expressed in the therein may prove invaluable in helping me to work talks given by the various speakers, all of which out of some mill problem. are beneficial to any oil mill operator, or anyone learning the oil milling business. Especially the Sincerely yours, younger and newer people entering oil milling can E. L. “ ED” NASH

From Secretary Wilson Wharton, Texas, August 5, 1951 eternal vigilance to keep everything on a level beam To the Members of N.O.M.S.A. this season. In the meantime, fellows, don’t forget Everywhere your obligations to your association and the Oil Mill Gazetteer. We like to hear from our readers and Gentlemen: members at all times. The sun has been playing havoc with the Cotton Yours very truly, Crop for the past four weeks and we can see no let up as yet. When we wrote our letter to you last H. E. WILSON, Secretary. month everybody who depended on cotton for a live­ lihood was talking about the largest yield of cotton we have ever had, but we and they overlooked old PROCESS MACHINERY BULLETIN mother nature, who stepped in with the withering The Bauer Bros. Co., 1702 Sheridan Ave., Spring­ hot sun which dried and parched land, with the field, Ohio, 8-page Bulletin No. 52, illustrates and result that at present date some of our Texas coun­ describes the Bauer diversified line of attrition mills, ties are now looking for just one-half of what they pulp refiners, hammer mills, crushers, breakers, had one month ago. We do not have to tell our read­ magnetic separators, specific gravity separators, ers what this means. Most of the South Texas mills cleaners, defibrators, exhausters, vegetable oil ma­ are in operation and by the time this reaches you chinery, nut processing machinery; also laboratory most of the mills all over the state will be grinding. mills, beaters and classifiers. Bulletin explains fa­ It will take very careful watching over the linting and separation equipment, for there is a large per­ cilities in company’s laboratories for making test centage of immature seed moving in and will con­ runs on commercial-size machines. Purpose of bul­ tinue to move in. This means light dry seed, low letin is to give general information looking toward yield of oil, and low protein meal. So, it will take the furnishing of specific data upon request. Page 24 OIL MILL GAZETTEER August, lgji

NOTICE THE PRESIDENT’S FAMILY

The National Oil Mill Superintendents Fifty-eighth Convention will be held at Houston, Texas, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, May 26, 27, and 28, 1952, Rice Hotel Headquarters in Downtown Houston, Air Con­ ditioned throughout. Rates Single Room $4.00 to $8.00, Double Room $6.00 to $10.00, Twin Rooms, $8.00 to $12.00.

The Hotel situation for Conventions is becoming more and more like war-time conditions, in making contacts looking forward to the 1952 or our Fifty- eighth Annual Convention, your Secretary found all the hotels that would suit us are booked up through May and June, 1952, and some of them for 1953, so our advice is that hotel reservations for our conven­ tion should be made at as early date as possible. We were able to find an open date at the Rice Hotel in Houston as listed above on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. This will enable the boys to leave home for the convention either Saturday or Sunday for Houston and arrive Sunday for an early registra­ tion. Make your reservations now—is our advice. ------COTTONSEED CRUSHERS TO MEET IN HOUSTON Texas Cottonseed Crushers 1952 Convention set We are very proud to introduce the charming wife of on for May 31, June 1 and 2, 1952, Shamrock Hotel, new President, Mrs. Bentley H. Page and sons, Bentley Jr, Houston, Texas. Jack Whetstone, Secretary, 614 age 6, and Kyle, age 3. A number of those attending tli recent convention in San Antonio will remember seeing Mr Wilson Bldg., Dallas, Texas. Page and the boys in the convention hall and hotel lobbr,

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By Jane Inez Gordon

OFFICERS OF THE TRI-STATES OIL MILL in our industry, extend an invitation to become a SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION member. We should have a number of new members M. P. Letchworth, Leland Oil Works, Leland, Miss.. President to be accepted by December. The State vice-presi- O. D. Easley, Southern Cotton Oil Co., dents are the membership committee, and I hope Memphis, Tenn...... Vice-President L. E. Roberts, DeSoto Oil Mill, each one of you will find out if there is a superin­ Memphis, Tenn...... Secretary-Treasurer tendent in your state who is not a member and ask Jane Inez Gordon, Woodson-Tenent Laboratories, him to join. We want associate members too, and Memphis, Tenn...... Corresponding Secretary these come from our suppliers or allied industries. STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS Wishing each of you a big crushing season, I am Tennessee...... Tom Hutchison . . . . Tiptonville, Tenn. Yours sincerely, Arkansas...... J. B. Jones...... Little Rock Mississippi...... Woodson Campbell ...... Hollandale MARTIN LETCHWORTH, President Missouri...... Jimmy Jones ...... Kennett Tri-States Oil Mill Supt. Assn. South Carolina...... R. T. Herring...... Ninety-Six North Carolina...... B. G. Stowe...... Goldsboro Georgia...... J. F. Doughman...... Macon Alabama...... W. C. Hendrix...... Birmingham MILLING AROUND AT THE ATLANTA Texas...... Cecil Wamble...... College Station Louisiana...... Ernest Perrault ...... New Roads CONVENTION Oklahoma...... M. C. Dimphl...... Chickasha The 26th annual convention of the Tri-States Oil Florida...... C. E. Dutton...... Pensacola Mill Superintendents Association, June 20-22 has STATE PROGRAM CHAIRMEN come and gone . . . but not forgotten . . . the 450 Tennessee...... E. S. Lyle, Dyersburg Oil Mill, Dyersburg delegates are still talking of the fine convention and Arkansas...... Ralph Huneycutt, Planters Oil Mill, Pine Bluff looking forward to 1952 in Biloxi, Miss., next June Mississippi. C. C. Castillow, Refuge Cotton Oil Co., Greenville 3-4-5, and since the July issue carried the proceed­ Alabama and Georgia: W. C. Hendrix, Southern Cotton Oil Co., Birmingham ings space was limited to print some interesting bits. North and South Carolina: Registration began in the afternoon before the B. G. Stowe, Southern Cotton Oil Co., Goldsboro, N. C. convention opened and the delegates gathered all RESEARCH COMMITTEE day and into the night with greetings, meeting old E. E. Tenent, Woodson-Tenent Laboratories, friends and making new ones . . . the machinery and Chairman ...... Memphis supply men were on hand to entertain and hold open J. R. Mays, Barrow-Agee Laboratories...... Memphis house. L. L. Ford ...... Enterprise, Ala. The convention was a huge success everyone BOARD OF DIRECTORS agreed . . . the Association officers, Hunt Moore, C. W. Hoover, Chairman...... Victoria, Ark. Martin Letchworth, L. E. Roberts, the convention L. E. Roberts...... Memphis, Tenn. committees, C. C. Castillow, general chairman, Rich­ N. L. Pugh, Jr...... Newport, Ark. B. C. Lundy...... Greenville, Miss. ard Alcott, finance, Roy Castillow, program, 0. H. E. S. Lyle...... Dyersburg, Tenn. Sale, entertainment, Mrs. Wright Paulk, ladies en­ Hunt Moore ...... Wilson, Ark. tertainment, certainly deserve a rousing vote of M. P. Letchworth...... Leland, Miss. thanks. REGIONAL MEETINGS Many of the members brought along the family. . . Pine Bluff, Ark., Ralph Huneycutt, Chairman. . . . Dec. 1,1951 the R. M. Clements, Independence Oil Mill, Jackson, Memphis, Tenn., E. S. Lyle, Chairman...... Feb. 2,1952 Tenn. . . . the E. M. Beattys, Lake County Oil Mill, Greenville, Miss., C. C. Castillow, Chairman...... April 5, 1952 Tiptonville, Tenn., made a nice family group with their grandchildren . . . Mr. and Mrs. Gus Richardon PRESIDENT LETCHWORTH’S LETTER and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Richardon, Humphrey- Leland, Miss., August, 1951 Godwin Co., Memphis, motored down visiting rela­ Dear Members: tives en route in Augusta, Ga., and Selma, Ala. . . . Our new crushing season is about here, and from the L. E. Roberts, DeSoto Oil Mill, Memphis, renewed all reports we are all going to be pretty busy with kinship with relatives in Atlanta that they had not the huge crop. I hope everyone has a grand year seen since youngster days . . . Mrs. Roberts went to and not have too many problems to come up, al­ Kingsport, Tenn., following convention to attend the though every year produces problems. marriage of her nephew, and en route home motored I had hoped to get away from the mill this summer through the Great Smoky Mountains and visited her and visit some of you, but we had a great deal to do son in Chattanooga, Tenn. . . . the Roberts have also to get ready for the season. However, I am looking just moved into their new home, which is across the forward to our December Regional meeting in Pine street from their former location . . . they like the Bluff, Ark., and by that time, we’ll want to get to­ neighborhood. gether for a good time and discussion of our prob­ Building new homes and moving in before the lems. In the meantime, why don’t some of you drop season are the Frank Harris,’ Southern Cotton Oil a letter to the Gazetteer? It would be nice to hear Co., Natchitoches, La., and the E. S. Lyles, Dyers­ from some of you through the Gazetteer columns. burg Oil Mill, Dyersburg, Tenn., but they took time We have a large membership, and want to increase out to attend the convention . . . including vacation it this year. If you know anyone who is interested with convention were the John R. Rothers, who mo­ Pag© 26 OIL MILL GAZETTEER August. 135| tored to Clearwater, Florida, from Atlanta and vis­ first time we can remember . . . but son Joe was« ited points East and West coasts. hand and reported that they could not all leave t] The C. C. Castillows had a family reunion . . . son, Tennessee Belting Co., Memphis . . . Mrs. Marier Grady came over from Ashville, N. C., to join them, check and daughter, Mrs. Lynn Sides and four r and the Roy Castillows, Southern Cotton Oil Co., Lit­ the children in the fam ily motored to Biloxi, an tle Rock, Ark. . . . C. C. left from the convention Gulfport, Miss., in July for a vacation. J. P. has r for New Rhoads, La., where he is rebuilding and grandchildren and five great grandchildren! Jj improving the plant . . . a new separating room to plans on bringing them all to the 1952 Biloxi con increase the capacity, lint cleaning room and general vention. repairs. N. L. Pugh, Jr., Southern Cotton Oil Co., Newport R. H. (Rand) Harris, Planters Oil Mill, Yazoo City, Ark., went to Birmingham, Ala., the last day of tl Miss., lent a welcome hand . . . distributed the cir­ convention to visit a plant, planning on catching tl culars to the delegates on the "Soybeans—The Fea­ late afternoon plane to Memphis . . . after a 100-yan ture Story,” a movie film that was shown . . . he sprint, he missed it by a wing’s length . . . hadt handled the tickets for the drawings for the ladies’ wait for the next one. attendance prize on the last day in the convention Russell Maas, Screw Conveyor Corp., Hammonj hall . . . these things are a great help to the com­ Ind., said it with orchids! These exotic blossom mittees . . . the attendance prize was a beautiful turned the banquet into a beautiful occasion . ., ( silver bowl, given by T. C. Guinee, Southern Engi­ the ladies wearing such lovely evening gowns suit neering & Supply Co., Vicksburg, Miss. . . . this able for an orchid . . . all the little “Misses” won prize really drew the ladies to the meeting . . . Little them with an “ air.” Miss Carrol Beatty (Tiptonville, Tenn.) drew the A note to all the machinery and supply men . lucky number which was held by Mrs. H. C. Switzer, who contributed so much to the success of the cot Belzoni, Miss. vention, we owe them also a rousing vote of thank The Switzers’ came en masse . . . Bud and Minnie And to the Southeastern group . . . Georgia, Alt (Humphrey County Oil Mill, Belzoni, Miss.), and son, bama, North and South Carolina who did everythin; Sidney, and wife . . . C. R. Woodard and Chas. Adams possible to help make the convention a success., and wives . . . Mr. Woodard has been made super­ and O. H. Sale, Davidson-Kennedy Co., Atlanta, Er intendent, Planters Oil Mill, Koscuisko, Miss. He nest Key, Atlanta Belting Co., Wright Paulk, But has been at the Belzoni mill . . . He also observed ters Mfg. Co., C. L. Printup, Carver Cotton Gin Co, a birthday anniversary on the opening day, June 20 Mrs. Wright Paulk and Mrs. O. H. Sale, and thaij —Mr. Adams observed his birthday en route, June committees were wonderful hosts and hostesses,, 18 . . . He has been made night superintendent at the the ladies luncheon and tour of the city were enjoya: Belzoni mill. Sidney is assistant superintendent . . . by all. Minnie was going home to put up those grand pickles for which she is famous among her other culinary arts and we hinted . . . gently, of course, how won­ JANE INEZ IN MEXICO CITY derful it would be to latch on to one of those jars. Our associate editor, Jane Inez Gordon, spent Two interesting foreign visitors from across the vacation in Mexico City and other points in Mexict waters were cordially welcomed . . . C. C. Chou from She writes: Formosa, who was guest of Tom Hutchison, West Senoritas beautiful! Tenn., Soya Mill, Tiptonville, Tenn., and R. Gromel from Turkey. Climate—wonderfully cool! Tequelo calicute! E. S. Lyle, Dyersburg Oil Mill, Dyersburg, Tenn., drove a beautiful new station wagon to the conven­ Mexico Magnificio! tion and his son came over to meet him and got the Scenery—gorgeous! wagon . . . Everett, Jr., has just finished college and Food— excellent! will attend Duke this fall . . . during the summer he Flowers and corn abundance! is working in forestry, while his wife and son are Having funo, but going brokeo! visiting the Lyles in Dyersburg. What no cotton, Senorita Jane Inez! Tish-tish- The J. P. Marienchecks were missed . . . this is the and 4 oil mills in M exico!

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WOMEN’S AUXILIARY ANNUAL PICNIC Cargill, Inc., large Minneapolis grain concern, which SEPTEMBER 8 operates world wide and has a number of large soy­ Mrs. S. A. Bienvenue was hostess at the July bean processing mills. meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary to the Tri-States Royal was organized in Jackson, Miss., in 1912, by Oil Mill Superintendents Association at her home, Mr. Smith-Vaniz, associated with the late George 1866 Harbert, Memphis. Following the business ses­ W. Covington of Hazlehurst, Miss., president of the sion, the group enjoyed a picnic luncheon, with Mrs. Mississippi Cottonseed Products Association. Jack Hunt, Mrs. R. E. Kinney and Mrs. R. L. Sar- geant as co-hostesses. Plans were made for the annual picnic and auc­ WEDDING BELLS tion to be held in September at the home of Mrs. Nan Hassler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. W. D. Davis at 272 South Perkins Road. Committees Hassler will marry Joe Leslie Johnson, Jr., son of for the event will be announced later by Mrs. Ralph Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Johnson of Rockport, Texas, late Trobaugh, program chairman. in August. The picnic and auction is always an exciting event The bride-elect’s father is superintendent of the each year, and all the members of the industry are Buckeye Cotton Oil Co., Memphis, and widely known invited. Reservations are to be made with Mrs. L. E. in the industry. He was secretary-treasurer of the Roberts, 1180 Greenwood Ave., Memphis. It will be Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Association for held Saturday night, September 8. several years, also a former president of the Asso­ Mrs. Louis J. Saino who presided over the busi­ ciation. ness session announced that Mrs. John M. Brooks Nan has been attending Texas State College for has been accepted as a new member. Mr. Brooks is Women at Denton, Texas. Mr. Johnson is a senior with the Tri-States Armature & Electrical Works. at Texas A. & M. College, College Station, Texas. Mrs. H. K. Hudson was made an honorary member. Mr. Hudson was formerly superintendent of the Perkins Oil Mill, and the Hudson’s have been living A. P. HOLLEY SERIOUSLY ILL in Cincinnati with their daughter for the past sev­ eral years, but have moved back to Memphis. A. P. Holley, V. D. Anderson & Co. representative The August luncheon-meeting will be held at in Memphis, Tenn., is seriously ill and confined at Hotel Peabody, and the annual picnic committees the Baptist Hospital, in Memphis. Mr. Holley is will be announced at that time. widely known throughout the industry and his many friends wish him a quick and complete recovery.

TWO FEED MILLS CONSOLIDATED The Royal Feed & Milling Co. of Memphis and Nutrena Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, will be consolidated ALL TYPES OF BLOW PIPE WORK as soon as audits and legal procedure in connection and with the merger are completed. W. R. Smith-Vaniz is president of Royal and R. E. Whitworth is presi­ EXHAUST FANS dent of Nutrena. Mr. Smith-Vaniz will retire when merger is completed, but will retain a large stock for the interest. OIL MILLS — COTTON GINS H. L. McGeorge, Sr., vice president and general SOYBEAN MILLS — FEED MILLS manager of Royal will become regional vice president for Nutrena’s Southern Division. The new merger SOUTHERN BLOW PIPE CO. will operate under the name of Nutrena Mills, but the Royal’s Staf-O-Life brands of livestock and poul­ 460 E. Mallory Phone 35-4047 try feed will be continued. Memphis, Tenn. W. C. Doily R. P. Daily Nutrena has been a wholly owned subsidiary of

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ALLIS-CHALMERS AWARDS TEN $500 Mr. Strain was president and general manager 0 SCHOLARSHIPS the Tupelo Oil and Gin Company, Tupelo, Miss. fl( Five girls and five boys were named recipients of was a former president of the Valley Oilseed Pr0t. ten $500 Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. scholarships given essing Association, a director in the National Cottor by the firm this year, according to announcement Council and directed Cotton Week festivities it made by W. A. Roberts, president. Tupelo this year. The winners are Paul L. Blackburn, Cincinnati, He is survived by his wife, the former Man Ohio, Helen R. DeFouw and Donald R. Kollatz, West Stevens, whom he married in June, 1929; his soii Allis, Wise.; Joan M. Donahoe, LaPorte, Ind.; Irene James R. Strain, Jr., two daughters, Miss Mildrej A. Elkin and Joapn P. Paczesny, Milwaukee, Wise.; Lake Strain and Miss Janetta Strain, all of Tupelo John W. Gregory, Springfield, 111.; Hugh A. Hauser, his brother, Cecil C. Strain, and two sisters, Mh Milton, Mass.; E. D. Stivender, Wauwatosa, Wise., Etta Strain, Jackson, Miss., and Mrs. Jayne Strait and Suzanne Weller, Pittsburgh, Pa. Leake, Tupelo. High school seniors who are sons and daughters Services and burial were held in Tupelo, Miss, of one of Allis-Chalmers 30,000 employes were eligi­ attended by a wide circle of friends throughout the ble for the awards. Winners may attend any accred­ industry. ited college of their choice. The money may be ap­ The staff of the Gazetteer and the many friend plied to tuition costs, room and board, books, or other extend deepest and heartfelt sympathy to the familt expenses connected with the students’ education. of Mr. Strain in their great loss. While the scholarship is for one year only, it may be renewed each year if the student satisfied certain requirements set by the scholarship committee. Un­ MRS. WATSON ILL der this program it is possible that each student may receive $2,000 in educational assistance while com­ Mrs. J. T. Watson o f the Planters Oil Mill, Tunica pleting four years of college study. Miss., who is well-known among the oil millers ani ginners in the Mid-South suffered a heart attack an! is seriously ill at the Tunica hospital. Mrs. Watsoi J. R. “ ZOOK” STRAIN DIES has been with the Tunica mill for more than 25 years. One of the most popular and widely known oil mill executives, J. R. Strain, known affectionately We hope that before this issue is out that Mrs Watson will be well on the road to recovery. as “Zook,” died suddenly of a heart attack August 7, at his home in Tupelo, Miss. He was 51. REICHMAN-CROSBY HOLDS SALES CONFERENCE The Reichman-Crosby Co., Memphis, Tenn., hell & a two-day sales conference, July 26 and 27, at tilt M Chisca Hotel. Richard Alcott, vice-president ani general manager, was in charge. Appearing on the program were: L. C. Watson ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS sales manager, and Louis Stout, engineer of the MOTORS • SUPPLIES Allen-Bradley Co., Milwaukee, Wise.; H. A. Tuck district sales manager, and Joe McEwen, sales en FAIRBANKS-MORSE MOTORS gineer, Keystone Lubricating Co., Philadelphia, Pa. CUTLER HAMMER CONTROLS R. W. MacWhorter, industrial sales manager ani WOOD'S V-BELT DRIVES W. E. Knapp, sales engineer, Henry Disston & Sons Rewinding, Rebuilding Motors and Philadelphia, Pa.; and S. F. Murphy, vice-president Electrical Equipment— Wiring in charge of sales, Quigley Co., New York, N. I 479 North Main Sf. Memphis, Tenn. Tel. 38-1321 The sales force and speakers were guests of Reichman-Crosby Co. for luncheon on the two days

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n e e d s ! runica irs ani ick anJ Vatsoi WALTON SMITH l a n 25 During' the recent annual Tri-States Oil Mill Su­ it Mrs perintendents Association Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, June to be exact, Link-Belt offered as a prize a complete rod and reel and Walton Smith, Assistant District Engineer of the Southern Cotton Oil Company of Goldsboro, North Carolina, was de­ clared to be the lucky winner. i ., hell It is needless to say after the presentation of the at tin prize that a fishing trip was in order. Walton reports It pays to use American it ant that upon his first fishing trip with the prize rod Stock Gears wherever you can. and reel on July 4 he caught and landed a 10% Investigate and you’ll probably find that In­ Batson pound striped bass. And just to prove his story, stead of having to go to the added time and ex­ of tllf pense of ordering special gears, that your needs ruck here’s the photo of the fish, the rod and reel and Walton. can be filled from the American line. ,les a American is a complete stock gear line. Manu­ La, Pa. factured by Perfection— a veteran of 30 years in e r ani AUGUST BIRTHDAYS the gear business—these gears are made to the i Sons, Members of the industry celebrating birthdays in most precise standards, from the highest quality esident materials. This popular line includes brass, bronze, N. I August are: J. B. Jones, Temple Cotton Oil Co., steel, semi-steel, cast iron, and non-metallic ists ol Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. Louis J. Saino, president, gears in a range of 48 to 3 diametral pitch. o days Women’s Auxiliary, Memphis; A. P. Holley, V. D. You’ll save time and money . . . save on in­ Anderson Co., Memphis; T. W. Lewis, Lewis Supply ventory . . . simplify purchasing, and have less Co., Memphis; Justine Pitts, W. C. Pitts & Son, lost production time by procuring your stock gear Memphis; W. J. Thompson, Ruston Oil Mill, Ruston, needs from your nearby distributor of American La.; P. T. Pinckney, Jr., Graton & Knight Co., W. Stock Gears. E. Hassler, Buckeye Cotton Oil Co., Memphis; Joe Brady, Helena Cotton Oil Mill, Helena, Ark.; and Distributed by James 0. Burrows, Magnolia Oil Mill, Magnolia, Miss. DISSTON SAWS ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES REPUBLIC PRODUCTS HUNTER FANS INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES MILL SUPPLIES TRANSMISSIONS ENGINEERING POSITION WANTED | SERVICE Position with oil mill as superintendent on i Riechman-Crosby Co. either watch. Years of experience on hy- draulic and screw press mills. Sober, honest 223 S. FRONT ST. MEMPHIS, TENN. PHONE 5-24*4 (l.D. 359) and reliable. Box 333, Oil Mill Gazetteer ------

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A. F. WAMBLE DECLARED DOCTOR OF OIL Mr. Wamble is widely known throughout the in. MILLING UPON RETIREMENT dustry and has a host of friends in both the oil mil], and machinery and supply industry. He has c o n tributed his time and talents wherever needed fot the interest and benefit of the industry. He is known as an ardent sportsman, especially known for fishing skill; an expert of the “rod and reel” fra. ternity. He has retired from active oil milling, but will continue to live in Greenwod and serve the industn whenever needed. The Executive Committee of the Board of D i r e c ­ tors of the Mississippi Cottonseed Products Co. pre. sented Mr. Wamble the following Resolution in ret. ognition of his long and loyal services to the mi and the industry.

Resolution Regarding the Retirement of A. F. Wamble

WHEREAS, Albert F . Wamble of Greenwood, has reacht the age of retirement and this company wishes to niak acknowledgment of his great contribution to this compar and the oil industry in general, and WHEREAS, he has served this company for more than 2i yeai's and has been faithful to every trust, with a loyalti A. F. WAMBLE never questionable, and WHEREAS, were this company a University and had surf A. F, Wamble, superintendent of the Planters Oil powers, we feel that without question, we could confer up® Mill, Greenwood, Miss., after 29 years of service in him f-he Degree of “Doctor of Oil Milling/’ now the oil milling- industry, has been declared “Doctor THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Execufti Committee of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi of Oil Milling” by the Mississippi Cottonseed Prod­ Cottonseed Products Company recognizes the great contrih ucts Co. of Jackson, Miss., who own and operate a tion he has made to this company and the oil mill industn large group of oil mills in the South. in g-eneral, and that this resolution be spread upon the mill utes of the corporation and that a copy of the resolution fc sent to Albert F. Wamble. H. E. COVINGTON, President J. R. MASON, Secretai; G. WORTHEN AGEE, President E. R. BARROW, St.. Dtary and Treas. Executed at Jackson, Miss., June 8, 1951. (SEAL) BARROW-AGEE LABORATORIES INCORPORATED MARGARINE FIRM BUYS WILSON, ARK, PLANT ANALYTICAL AND CONSULTING CHEMISTS Announcement has been made by Stephen J. Bar AND ENGINEERS tush, president o f Shedd-Bartush Foods, Inc., mm of Keyko Margarine, that purchase has been m a dt MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE of the margarine plant at Wilson, Ark., owned by tlif Delta Products Co. Production will be absorbed bi Main Office and Laboratories: Memphis, Tenn. the Shedd-Bartush margarine production plants at Laboratories: Detroit, Dallas, Elgin, 111., and Greenville, S. C. Memphis, Tenn. Shreveport, La. Tackscn, Miss. The purchase includes acquisition of all brant Cairo, 111. Leland, Miss. names, trade marks, packaging supplies and goot will of the Wilson, Ark., business.

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HUNT MOORE OPENS CONSULTANT OFFICE and John Costen, Memphis attorneys. Authorized capital stock was listed at $300,000. The new firm at Little Rock will operate as a separate corporation but distributing General Mo­ tors Diesels, Wisconsin gas motors and others of the same line as carried by the Memphis firm, the Lewis Diesel Co. The new corporation was a branch of the Memphis firm prior to the organization of the sepa­ rate corporation. It had been in operation four years. T. Walker Lewis, Sr., is president of the new cor­ poration and T. Walker Lewis, Jr., is vice-president.

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Hunt Moore, general manager of the Delta Prod­ ucts Co., Wilson Ark., for the past year, will become consultant engineer for Solvent Extraction cotton ( t k S l o c k - - - seed and soybean plants on September 1. For the ELECTRIC MOTORS next few months he will remain in Wilson, Ark., and will open offices in either Memphis or Dallas, Texas, MOTOR CONTROL by January 1. WIRING SUPPLIES Mr. Moore has been in the cottonseed processing REPAIR PARTS industry since 1935. He came to Wilson six years ago PULLEYS-SHEAVES-BELTS as Production Manager of the Solvent Extraction Call Us for Dependable Motor Repair plant, and was made general manager of the Delta Service Products Company’s interests last year, which in­ cluded the refinery, margarine plant and shortening: Largest Stock of Motors in the South plant as well as the solvent extraction cottonseed processing mill. He was president of the Tri-States Oil Mill Super­ intendents Association last year, and is a member of the Board of Directors. He has also been a state vice-president in the National Oil Mill Superintend­ ents Association. His many friends in the industry wish him con­ tinued success in his new j3osition as consultant engineer. ------♦♦♦------"Let Us Know Your Power Requirements" NEW DIESEL FIRM ORGANIZED A new Diesel distributing firm has been organized in Little Rock, Ark., to be known as Lewis Diesel Industrial Electric and Supply Go. Engine Co. The incorporators are: T. Walker Lewis, Phone 37-1681 Front at Auction president of Lewis Supply Co. and president of MEMPHIS, TENN. Lewis Diesel Engine Co. in Memphis, Sam Costen

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LINK-BELT HOSTS TO CONVENTION DELEGATES One of the outstanding events held during the annual convention of the Tri-States Oil Mill Super­ intendents Association in Atlanta, Ga., June 20-22, was the men’s luncheon at the famous Atlanta Ath­ letic Club, and the inspection tour of the modern manufacturing plant of Link-Belt Co., which is one of the largest of its kind in the South. More than 200 enthusiastic members attended as guests of the Link-Belt Co. Hosts for the occasion were: Wm. J. Nighbert, manager, District Sales of Link-Belt; Carl Vercoe, of the Chicago plant; Joe Walsh, district manager, St. Louis office, and Rod S. Galloway, general man­ ager, Southeastern Division, Atlanta.

After the luncheon, the members were taken on a L. E. Roberts, secretary-treasurer of the Association and conducted inspection tour of the Link-Belt plant to superintendent, DeSoto Oil Mill, Memphisis, and Joe Walsh stopped for a chat. see the “inside story” of the manufacture of screw

Delegates move around from one manufacturing operatioi to another, as the tour progresses. A group of oil millers show great interest in seeing how screw conveyor is manufactured at the Link-Belt plant.

Here a group discusses a phase of the manufacture done at the Link-Belt plant. Among those shown are J. L. TetisA Southern Cotton Oil Co., Columbus, Miss., Buff Chisolm Trenton Cotton Oil Co., Trenton, Tenn., C. C. Castillo* Carl Vercose of Link-Belt Chicago plant demonstrates the District Engineer, Southern Cotton Oil Co., and E. M. Bead! Bulk Flo to another interested group. Lake County Oil Mill, Tiptonville, Tenn. August, 1951 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 33

conveyors, elevators, buckets and various other Luxora, Ark., was named vice president and J. War­ items used in the oil milling' industry. ren Karston, Jr., Kennett, Mo., was re-elected secre- This was the first time that many of the super­ tary-treasurer. intendents had had an opportunity to visit a manu­ * * * facturing plant of this kind, and they were really A $604,000 cotton warehouse is proposed for con­ impressed by the vast operations necessary in the struction in Memphis, by Gulf & Atlantic Ware­ manufacture of the products that they buy and use house Co., for occupancy by Anderson-Clayton & Co. daily. A number of the members commented that The project to consist of a main building 632 x 220 “the visit to this plant made them fully aware of feet, and three smaller buildings, 220 x 50 feet each, the type of manufacturing that is being done in the is now before the National Production Authority South, as well as the problems of manufacture.” in Washington. * * * The American carry-over of cotton on July 1, probably will be about 1.9 million bales, the smallest since 1925, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. * * * “Cotton Plant” historic landmark near German­ town, Tenn., was destroyed by fire last month, when a bolt of lightning struck it. The 10-room plantation home purchased by E. W. (Ned) Cook last March had stood like a mighty bulwark against the ele­ ments for 131 years. Mr. Cook is a partner in the cotton firm of Cook & Co., Memphis, and was 1951 Cotton Carnival King. He was remodeling the place to occupy in September. * * * Kemper Bruton has been made full-time secretary of the Arkansas-Missouri Ginners Association. The decision to hire a full-time executive secretary was made at the Association’s annual convention in Hot Springs, Ark. Mr. Bruton was the Mid-South activi- A t the close o f the inspection tour, H. C. (Bud) Switzer, Belzoni Oil Works, Belzoni, Miss., shows the much coveted and handsome reel and rod, which the Link-Belt Co. awarded at the annual banquet, and which was won by Walton Smith, Assistant District Engineer, Southern Cotton Oil Co., Golds­ boro, North Carolina. H u u A t o t e H o n J i i

DAUGHTER OF R. A. PRATT DIES Polio claimed the life of little Miss Margaret Caro­ lyn Pratt, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Preston, B.S. F. R. Robertson, Ph.C. 0 . M. Bakke, B.Sc. Richard A. Pratt of Wilson, Ark., on August 2. ESTABLISHED 1904 Mr. Pratt is manager of the Wilson Soya Corp., Wilson, Ark., and widely known in the industry. ^HOUSTON LABORATORIES^ She had been ill for only a few days and was ad­ ANALYTICAL AND CONSULTING CHEMISTS mitted at the Isolation Hospital in Memphis, where she died within a few hours. She leaves her parents, Cottonseed, Peanuts, Soybeans, Feeds A Specialty her brother, John Richard, 10, and her grandmother, Members N. C. P. A. and T . C. C. A.

Mrs. E. WT. Pratt of Memphis. Services were held in 12061/2 Preston Ave. • P. O. Box 132 • Houston, Texas Memphis. The staff of the Gazetteer and the many friends throughout the industry extend deepest and heart­ felt sympathy to the family in the great loss of their TRI-STATE beloved child. ARMATURE & ELECTRICAL WORKS, Inc.

CURRENTLY SPEAKING f c k d t J i k a l SpQ cialiAt Carl Hogrefe, San Joaquin Cotton Oil Co., Bakers­ field, Calif., paid Memphis a visit, following the 321-331 BUTLER AVE. • PHONE 37-8414 • MEMPHIS, TENN. National Oil Mill Superintendents Association in San Antonio, Texas, last month. Carl, a former ELECTRIC MOTORS Memphian, has many friends in the South. MOTOR CONTROLS M ||^ y s}c VEE BELT DRiVES ijr a jc T REPAIR PARTS J. P. Ross of Essex, Mo., was elected president of the Arkansas-Missouri Cotton Ginners Association INDUSTRIAL PLANT WIRING at the Hot Springs convention last month. He suc­ Switchboards Designed, Built and Installed ceeds Sidney C. Mack, Newport, Ark. J. E. Teaford,

PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 34 OIL MILL GAZETTEER August, 395] ties director for the National Cotton Council. Goal Congratulations to F. E. Rumley, assistant super, of the association is to get all ginners in the two intendent for Swift & Co. Oil Mill, Memphis, ^ states into the association and to set up an informa­ has been awarded a pin and cash award for a sir tion service which will keep all informed of Govern­ gestion adopted by the company on a nation-wi([e ment regulations and the manner in which they scale. It covers a placement atop mill buildings of affect ginners. fire hoses stores in easily accessible protective drum? -3' 5jC 2*5 and connected to permanent fire lines installed m Continental Grain Co. of New York are building the side of the building. During the last year, the a 500,000 bushel elevator in Memphis to bring whole company has distributed more than $500,000 to its grains and soybeans into the Memphis terminal for employes for similar suggestions. Mr. Rumley has distribution to the market area and for trans­ been an employee for 23 years. shipment to the Southeast and to New Orleans for export. The elevator has barge, rail and truck docks. Saul Kittower and Jack Gordon are co-managers for Gi*owers in 1950-51, on the average, hauled 1SS{ the Memphis operations. They were transferred pounds of hand-picked seed cotton to gins in order from St. Louis where the company has large opera­ to obtain a 500-pound gross weight bale, the USDA- tions. The firm operates hundreds of country eleva­ PM A reports. For cotton harvested by hand snap­ tors throughout the grain-producing area. ping, 1949 pounds of seed cotton were required,

Shortening, margarine, salad oils and dressings consumed almost 98 percent of the cottonseed oil used in 1950. CALL ON DILWORTH * * For the brands you know best The cotton gin of today is nearly 500 times faster than Eli Whit­ ney’s first model. ❖ 5j5 '\' hatane Temple has been wade president of the Temple Cotton Oil Co., Little Rock, Ark., succeeding Arthur Temple. He was formerly executive vice-president and gen­ eral manager. Arthur Temple, Jr., has been named vice-president of the ml T. E. Cochran remains the secre- tary-treasurer. *■ * * Congratulations to the Howard Long’s (Woodson-Tenent Labora­ tories, Memphis) who are the par­ ents of Janet Marine Long, bon June 19, weighing 8 pounds, I ounces. The Longs have another MOTOR daughter, Pat, age 21 months. [ CUTLER ❖ # * “Distinguished Cadet” in the graduating class of 1376 at Georgia Tech was Jesse M. Boulware, son o f Mr. and Mrs. M. Gray Boulware of Memphis. Mr. Boulware is chief HAMMER chemist at the Southern Cotton Oil Co., Memphis. Jesse also received a second Lieutenant's commission® the Air Force, as well as a degree of Bachelor o f Aeronautical Engi­ J. E. DILWORTH COMPANY • 730 SOUTH THIRD ST., MEMPHIS, TENN. neering. Lt. Boulware has been DILWORTH OF MISSISSIPPI, INC. • WHOLESALE ROW • JACKSON called to duty in the Air Force, re­ DILWORTH OF ALABAMA, !NC. • A.G.S. & HARGROVE RD. • TUSCALOOSA porting at the Lackland Air Base, San Antonio, Texas. ^ DILWORTH Oscar Wilkins, chief chemist Woodson - Tenent Laboratories, Serves the Mid-South on Machinery Memphis, Tenn., was presented and Industrial Supplies with his first grandchild, Robert WAREHOUSES IN MEMPHIS • JACKSON • TUSCALOOSA Leon Kirkland, IV, on June 3.

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Congratulations to T. D. Padgett, Swift & Co. Oil he served with the United States Navy in the South Mill, Columbia, S. C. who celebrated his 31st year Pacific during World War II. with the mill last month. His headquarters will be American Mineral Spirits Company’s Chicago office. He resides with his fam­ And on the “ Blessed Event” front, congratula­ ily at Homewood, Illinois. tions goes to Assistant Superintendent and Mrs. E. D. Sheally on the birth of a daughter, Vickie 150 TON EXTRACTOR PLANT FOR Elaine, and A. C. Summers and the Mrs. are grand­ parents for the second time . . . both Mr. Sheally JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI and Mr. Summers are with the Swift mill at Colum­ Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 13, 1951— Chemical Plants bia, S. C. Division of Blaw-Knox Company has received a con­ * * * tract from the Southland Cotton Oil Company of Paris, Texas, to furnish a soybean extraction plant At the Swift oil mill, Coleman, Texas, superin­ with a daily capacity of 150 tons for installation at tendent C. C. Koehler and Mrs., are the parents of Jackson, Miss. a 7-pound, 12-ounce baby girl, Karen Juanita. The plant will be designed for immediate opera­ tion on soybeans and later adaptation to extraction Lawrence W. Edwards is now manager of the of cotton seed as well as soybeans. This is the first Swift oil mill at Augusta, Ga., having been trans­ order from the South for Blaw-Knox soybean or ferred from the Cairo, 111., mill. Howard B. Culbert­ oilseed extraction equipment, and it calls for the use son, office manager at Augusta has been transferred of the Rotocel. to Greenwood, S. C. Under the contract, Blaw-Knox will provide all :|i :jc design and engineering, furnish all processing equip­ ment, and supervise erection and initial operation. Gilbert McSpadden, who has been traveling in Europe for his cotton firm in Memphis, has re­ The plant is expected to be ready for operation early in 1952. turned to his office, after visiting England, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Belgium. OIL MILL MACHINERY FOR SALE We have for sale 24 French Hydraulic AMERICAN MINERAL SPIRITS CO. NEWS Presses, 14 boxes each, seven eight-inch plates; 2 French Hydraulic Formers; 1 set 12 ton high and low pressure accumulators; 2 French Hydraulic Pumps. All in A-l operating condition. Delivery after January 1, 1952. Can be seen in opera­ tion at our mills this fall. THE UNION OIL MILL, INC. WEST MONROE, LOUISIANA

The Fort Worth Laboratories Consulting Analytical Chemists and Chemical Engineers Chemistry applied to all phases of manu­ facturing. Cottonseed products, fuel, water and feeds our specialty. F. B. PORTER, B.S., Ch.E., President C. L. MANNING, A.B., Vice-President 8281/2 Monroe Street, Fort Worth, Texas

W . J. Y E A W

Chicago, 111., Aug. 10, 1951— W. J. Yeaw has been SHELBY ELECTRIC appointed a sales representative in the midwestern territory, it was announced by Max A. Williams, CO. INC. vice president in charges of sales of American Min­ eral Spirits Company. Joe Yeaw, who is a native of ELECTRICIANS FOR THE SOUTH Champaign, Illinois, will cover a portion of the states of Illinois and Missouri and also Indiana and Ken­ MOTORS . . . GENERATORS tucky for American Mineral Spirits Company. This marks further expansion of Amsco’s distribution of REPAIR SHOP SERVICE petroleum solvents in the middlewest, Mr. Williams reported. 106-118 E. Iowa Phone 9-1546 Joe Yeaw joined Amsco in April after a number of years’ experience in the marketing of petroleum Memphis, Tenn. products. After attending the University of Illinois,

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FROM SUDAN OIL MILL, LTD. Khartoum, Sudan When in Need of Good Merchandise—and Dear Sirs: We are subscribers to your magazine, and shall Quick Service—Get in Touch with . . . be grateful if you will be kind enough to help us in answering our following problem. We have been pressing undecorticated cottonseed in Anglo-American open-type hydraulic presses, but LGnt STAR BAG & BRG6MG CO. we are contemplating now to shift our productions (INCORPORATED) ESTABLISHED 1921 decorticated cotton seed. Our existing presses wf© L. D. 878 P. O. Box 276 tested with meats, proved inadequate due to a large extent to the excessively high oil content of the St danese cotton seed (26-27.5% with 40% about i> HOUSTON, TEXAS meats), as a result of which, we had a tremendous amount of foots, and 12% oil content in the cate produced. Due to this failure, we had decided at first to us expellers of American make, which are decidedly IMPERIAL BRAND SUGAR BAG CLOTH the best and as such we chose the Anderson Supe Duo; unluckily the local Exchange Control turner down our application for American dollars. We hai of course the alternative of English expellers but as the use of these machines would necessitated second pressing of the cake produced, which wol 2-LB. HOUSTON BRAND SUGAR BAG CLOTH be an expensive procedure, we started consider^ FULL WEIGHT the conversion of our presses to box-type presses We have, however, before us some questions whict will arise with the use of box-type presses and hop that your experts will be able to give us the answer* (a) What will be a reasonable oil content of box- pressed cotton cake with 40% oil content ii NEW & SECOND HAND BURLAP BAGS the m eats? (b) Shall we have a large amount of foots? (c) After the release of pressure, will the slabs stick in the boxes or will they be removti easily ? (d) We are using now Nylon press-cloth of 33ci HAYS SUPPLY CD. per lineal yard, wide; will cloth of suit description fit the box-presses, or shall f 287 S. Front St. Phone 37-1563 have eventually to use narrower cloth? Memphis (2), Tenn. (e) What do you deem should be the time of pi& sure per press? (pressures available: lowl lbs. per sq. inch, high 2 tons per sq. incli1 Headquarters for . . . As the above matter is urgent, we shall appreciate ATLAS CHAIN MFG. COMPANY your prompt answer. Roller Chains & Sprockets Apologizing for any inconvenience we may hait caused you, BROWNING MFG. COMPANY V-Belts— S heaves— Pulleys Yours faithfully, CHISOLM-MOORE HOIST CORP. P. P. CAPvAPANAYOTI, Director. Electric & Spur Geared Hoists Trolleys and Cranes

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REPORT FROM TEXAS The great acreage planted to cotton this spring potentially would produce the greatest cotton crop we’ve ever had, but it has deteriorated rapidly dur­ ing the past six weeks due to a prolonged drought, with temperatures daily soaring to 100 degrees and above. At this writing there is much speculation being done as to the government’s August 8 cotton report. Generally, it is conceded that a downward revision is certain. If the condition of cotton throughout cen­ tral Texas is any indication, then certainly a revision downward is in order. However, if there should be general rainfall by August 15 there would again be reason to assume an optimistic outlook for a record crop. Some picking began in central Texas as early as August 1, but it was sparse, with the indications that the movement would get in full swing about August 15. Insects have taken their usual toll of damage, but considering the huge increase in acre­ age this year, it is believed that the diligent stand made by farmers with insecticides has saved many ERIC E. MOBERG bales. The pink bollworm menace seems to continue to ish community. Later he became interested in cotton spread, with a total of 37 South Texas counties ginning, and worked in cotton gins in Travis, Cald­ designated as heavily infested. Other counties all well and Nueces counties for nearly thirty years, the way up through central Texas have been put excepting two years which he spent in Chicago with under quarantine, which makes it necessary to ster­ the International Harvester Company. During his ilize cotton seed after ginning. Usually this task work in cotton gins, he became associated with oil falls to the oil mills, and many have for the first milling, and at his first good opportunity, he entered time installed this year processing equipment for this work, which he has found most interesting. He sterilization. thinks running an oil mill is a real test for a man’s The labor situation at many mills continues to ingenuity, and he devotes all his time to the opera­ be one of the largest problems. It is very hard to tion of his mill, seeking better and more efficient keep good, experienced men on the job, with Uncle methods to get higher linteryields, good separation Sam beckoning to many of them, and others being and low extraction. enticed away from home by fatter pay checks in Mr. Moberg joined N.O.M.S.A. in 1946. defense production plants. This works hardships on many superintendents, but can be overcome by long range planning and more diligent effort on their JOHN D. SIMPSON, JR. part. ------♦«-»------Mr. Simpson is superintendent of Western Cotton Oil Mill, Elk, City, Oklahoma. At thirty years of WHO’S WHO IN OIL MILLING age, he is one of the youngest superintendent’s in Mr. Moberg is superintendent of the South Texas the oil milling industry. Cotton Oil Company at Austin, Texas. In November, 1945, he got his start in oil milling Sixty-one years ago Mr. Moberg was born in as scale clerk at the Western Cotton Oil Mill in Karlskoga, Sweden. His father was a steel mill Abilene, Texas. He later moved to another job with worker, but saved enough money to buy a small farm the same company at San Angelo, then still later while Eric was still a boy. As he grew up on the moved to Bakersfield, Calif., to assist in construct­ farm, he assisted in the farm work during the sum­ ing a new mill there for his company. mer months, and during the winter he helped cut In 1950, Mr. Simpson moved to Elk City, Okla., as timber for the market, and cut ice from lakes to superintendent of his company’s mill there. store in sawdust until the following spring and He attended Texas A. & M. College, later serving summer. in the air force during World War II as a major. At the age of 16, Eric became interested in con­ He was captured during combat duty and held a struction work on dams and got a job as electrician prisoner of war for 21/2 years. helper. He had already begun making plans to come Mr. Simpson married Eunice Parramore, and they to America, and by the time he was 20 years of age, have one child, a daughter, Susie, age 3. he had saved enough money to bring him to this He is an ardent sports fan, but spends most of country. He immediately moved to Texas, settling his leisure hours tending his branded whiteface herd in Travis County and engaged in farming in a Swed- of cattle. Page 38 OIL MILL GAZETTEER August, 1951

T. D. HELMS

Mr. Helms is superintendent of the J. M. Tin^i & Son Cotton Oil Mill at Twitty, Texas. He began his work in the oil milling business j 1918 as linterman at Planter’s Cotton Oil Company Ennis, Texas. Mr. Helms has since worked in differ ent capacities such as millwright, night superintend, ent, assistant superintendent in mills at Sweetwater Texas, Waxachie, Texas, and one mill in Arkansas He was born in EJlis County, Texas, is now J years of age, and is married and has five childrei ranging in age from six to seventeen.

PERSONAL NOTES Ed Thomas is now back at Tor. nillo Cotton Oil Company, Tornilfc Texas. Ed spent some time in Sai Bias, Sonora, Mexico, as superin­ tendent of an oil mill. He report that he is very happy to be bad with Tornillo, and that they ait • Sires— 40', 45' and 50' now considering building a ne? Platforms. Other sizes special. plant. • Capacities to 80,000 lbs. * * • Hydraulic lO'xlO' Pit Door. • TWIN Hydraulic Power Units. Contra Costa Vegetable Oil Com- • Pit and Pitless Models. Pit- pany at Richmond, California, art less reduces foundation costs. now installing at their plant stor­ This New KEWANEE Pitless Model cuts age houses for cotton seed, see: UNLOADS all sizes o f Trucks and big foundation costs to a minimum. cleaning apparatus, linters a Tractor Trailers in a "jiffy.” Takes all separating machinery in prepare the time-stealing hard work out o f un­ back-breaking labor and cuts costs. loading... eliminates waiting time and Evidence o f KEWANEE performance tion for their new pro j ect of crush keeps trucks "o n the g o .” and economy is overwhelming. It is ing cotton seed. Their plant k Powerful TWIN Hydraulic Unit. substantiated by successive repeat previously operated on copra, ml Raises to 43° angle in less than a min­ orders from outstanding firms who nuts and flax. H. W. Calloway t ute, lowers in 2 5 seconds. Maximum have installed them in all their plants. safety because o f "oil-lock ed ” hydraulic Every Trucker and Ginner is a real now with Contra Costa in chargt control. No danger of accidents. booster. They appreciate "no long of this new operation. He was for Pit Door opens and closes hydrauli- waiting in line” in busy hauling seasons merly with Farmer’s Cooperate cally in seconds, permits cottonseed to and they tell others. It attracts new cus­ Oil Mill in El Paso, Texas. be dumped directly into open pit. tomers, widens your territory and ex­ Easy, simple controls . . . one man pands your volume. operates the Dumper, Wheel Stops and WRITE FOR BULLETIN - find out how Bill Coleman, chemist for West Pit Door from one location. Eliminates KEWANEE will cut your unloading costs. ern Cotton Oil Company at Abi­ lene, and R. C. Pope of Pope Test ing Laboratories in Dallas, Texas Jfew anee were recent visitors of Ben Bruce Truck Lifts Waxahachie, Texas, chemist ft W rite for • Adjustable for Driveways Southland Cotton Oil Company. Dumper Bulletin CD-9 11' to 15'6'' widths. Truck Lift Bulletin TL-19 • Low Head Room. • Large, deep flanged Winding R. D. “Speedy” Long droppef Drums. Uniform winding. by to see me recently and we W • Cut Worm Gear Reducer. a nice visit. Sure do enjoy talkin! • Crucible steel Lifting Ca­ to someone who gets around I bles, extra flexible. Speedy does. As usual, he was i: a hurry, this time to get out i ENGINEERED for easy operation and heavy duty Cradle o f greater strength Arizona and California. dependable performance, backed by 31 and utility. Strong lifting cables. >i: 'i' years’ know-how in the grain trade. Whatever your unloading problem, Extra strength channel steel frame there’s a KEWANEE to handle it. Write Had another nice visit with m provides rigid support for operating for Free Bulletin and full information. other travelling man every® mechanism. All working parts are be­ ------DISTRIBUTORS------knows. Albert Battenfield cameb: low the frame, permitting maximum lift. INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES, Inc. Telescoping frame adjustable every Poplar Ave. & River Front, Memphis, Tennessee and wish to report that I enj# 2" for driveways ll'O" to 15'6". N ew R. C. BROWN, 5538 Dyer St., Dallas 6, Texas his visit very much. Every®: knows, of course, that Mr. Battfl KEWANEE MACHINERY & CONVEYOR CO., Kewanee, Illinois field is representative for Buttei Manufacturing Co.

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By Burns H. Hamlett

VALLEY FOUNDRY & MACHINE WORKS and the departments moved into the new location IN NEW SITE in August, 1950. At the outbreak of the Korean War, Valley Foundry & Machine Works, Inc., was or­ it was apparent that the balance of the buildings ganized by Ben Hunt in 1898 on the corner of H and must be constructed at once so that the operations Mono streets. Mr. Hunt operated the organization could be back in one location in the event of pro­ until 1922 whereby he then sold it to S. P. Keithly. duction of defense equipment in case of total mo­ Leon S. Peters joined the firm in December of bilization. In August 1950 work commenced on the 1929 as a salesman, and purchased the firm from construction of the machine shop, supply department S. P. Keithly in December of 1939. and offices. This was completed the first part of May, 1951, and the entire operations were moved Under Mr. Hunt’s operation the firm primarily to this site. The present average employment ranges manufactured gasoline engines and irrigation pumps, from 80 to 85 skilled and semi-skilled personnel. The supplied this area with industrial supplies, and con­ total building area is 87,500 square feet. Only six ducted a jobbing shop for repairs to all types of acres of the ten-acre tract have been fenced and agricultural and industrial equipment. As the Valley allotted for the present plant site. Four acres are developed, Valley’s operation changed with this de­ held in reserve for possible future needs. velopment. During the last five years Valley has developed When electricity became available to agriculture, many new items and is now supplying industries the manufacture of gasoline engines was abandoned not only in California but throughout many of the and the manufacture of electrically operated cen­ southern, middlewestern, and eastern states. Some trifugal and deep well pumps was undertaken. This of these items consist of filtering equipment for cot­ was the firm ’s principal operation until 1932. At ton seed oil, soy bean, and peanut oils, and the mar­ the Repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the opportunity kets served primarily are in Texas, Arizona, New was seen for the development and production of Mexico, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennes­ wine making machinery for California’s revived wine see, California, and other oil-producing areas. industry. Starting in a small way this line was de­ veloped to a point where in 1936 the manufacture A filtering arrangement has been developed for of deep well turbine pumps was abandoned and all the filtration and reuse of waste water in paper efforts were put into the manufacture of wine mak­ mills. Installations are now made by Valley and ing machinery. Today a majority of the wine pro­ operating at the Ohio Boxboard Company, Rittman, duced in California and other wine producing areas Ohio; Superfine Paper Products, Utica, New York; is produced using Valley equipment. Waldorf Paper Products, St. Paul, Minnesota; Aus­ tin Bicking Company, Downingtown, Pa.; and Chesa­ At the beginning of World War II the necessity peake Bay Paper Company in Baltimore, Maryland. for conversion from civilian production to war equip­ ment was seen and all effort was placed in this di­ Another recent development is the Colloidair Sep­ rection. Many items were made during the war arators, developed through the cooperation of the years for the Navy and Maritime Commission. These Bulkley, Dunton Pulp Co., Inc., of New York. This Consisted of dock winches, net tender winches, equipment is used for the treatment of industrial hauser reels, cargo hoists, ships’ bells, submarine waste water. It is primarily used in railroad yards, parts, quick release couplings for refueling at sea, canneries, food processing plants, chemical plants, floating dry dock equipment, and a special machine meat packers, soap manufacturing plants, etc. Some for handling sacks of cement for the rebuilding and recent installations made have been at the Southern fortifying of Pearl Harbor Drydock No. 4. Also, spe­ Pacific Railroad yards, Los Angeles; Union Pacific, cial equipment for the salvaging and up-righting of Los Angeles; Santa Fe, Los Angeles; Aerojet Engi­ the destroyed and sunken Battleship Oklahoma, and neering Corporation, Azusa, California; General other numerous minor items. Electric Corporation, Ontario, California; Standard Oil Company, Torrance, California; Associated Oil Valley participated to the fullest extent in the activities of the Central California War Industries, Company, Inglewood, California; Lever Brothers a war production polo for this area. This pool was soap plant, Los Angeles, California; Lever Brothers awarded the Army and Navy “E” with four consecu­ soap plant, Hammond, Indiana; Adipose, Inc., Wood­ tive stars. land, California; Luer Packing Company, Los An­ Noting the development of the firm and visualiz­ geles ; E. Kahn’s Sons Co., meat packers, Cincinnati, ing the future development of the valley, it became Ohio; and Tobin Packing Company, Esterville, Iowa. apparent that' the old H Street site would soon A new order is being placed in the shop for the pro­ become too small for its expanded operations. In duction of three 2000 gallon per minute size units 1945 this site was purchased, consisting of 10 acres, for Monsanto Chemical Company, Texas City, Texas. for the purpose of building a new plant. The first The average annual payroll is $358,000.00 building was started in January of 1948 for the In addition to the above items, a jobbing service Fabrication Division. This department was moved is rendered for repairs on all types of agricultural to the new location in September of 1948. In January and industrial equipment. Special machinery is de­ 1950 the buildings for the foundry, pattern shop, and signed and built to the requirements of all industrial pattern storage were started. These were completed operations. Page 40 OIL MI I>L GAZETTEER August,

pounds of seed 47 pounds of an edible oil equal r, SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH NEWS superior in quality to cottonseed and peanut oil! Besides being rich in oil, sesame seed yields a sJj which is a nutritious stockfeed, containing 45^ RESEARCH ON SESAME AT THE SOUTHERN per cent of high quality protein. Also, the seed ^ REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY LOOKS superior qualities from the standpoint of the proces­ AHEAD TO A NEW OILSEED CROP sor— it requires no preparation other than cleanin' Extensive basic and technological data on sesame before milling and it is easily processed in conven seed and oil have been reported in 10 technical arti­ tional oil milling equipment. cles since January 1950 by chemists of the Depart­ In Southern Laboratory research, oil was reco?. ment of Agriculture. This information will be of ered from 4 varieties of seed by batch solvent ex. value to oilseed processors in the Cotton Belt in the traction; physical and chemical analyses were made' event the crop is grown on a large scale as a supple­ and each oil was evaluated for use as a salad -sJ ment or alternate raw material for cotton seed. cooking oil and for the production of shorten^ The data are the result of investigations at the The crude oil was low in free fatty acids; very ligi Southern Regional Research Laboratory in New in color; had low refining losses; and bleached well Orleans, Louisiana. The work was part of a broad Hardened to shortening consistency the prod® program of research being conducted by Department showed great stability toward oxidative rancidity. agencies and State Agricultural Experiment Stations This superior stability was shown to be due ti to develop varieties of sesame better suited to Amer­ sesamol, a unique component of the seed. A metk' ican farming, and to obtain increased knowledge of for determining the free and bound sesamol m the chemical composition and characteristics of the developed. Also worked out was a method of deter- seed. mining the amount of sesamin, another unique mi® component of sesame oil. Sesame seed and oil are well-known commodities in international trade and quantities of both are The processing and utilization research on sesai imported into this country. But the seed has not oil at the Southern Regional Research Laboraton been been produced extensively here, mainly because is the first systematic chemical investigation ( of harvesting difficulties, some of which are being the oil to be recorded. The publications on the m\ met through the development of nonshattering vari­ have aroused the interest of vegetable-oil manufat eties. Under good cultural practices the crop yields turing firms in almost every part of the world 71 800 pounds or more of seed per acre and more oil series of articles represents more than one-tenth 0: per acre than any other annual oilseed crop— per 100 the technical literature in English on sesame oi The reports include the most comprehensive reviesi 254 references, which has yet been made of tk litrature on sesame oil throughout the world. 30 TON SOYBEAN SOLVENT PLANT Reprints of the articles may be obtained by wit Attractively priced, immediate delivery. ing the Southern Regional Research Laboratory Pittock & Associates, Glen Riddle, Pa. 2100 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, New Orleans IS Louisiana. The publications are entitled: Sesair Oil. I— V II: Properties o f a Solvent-Extracted Ses me Oil; Some Chemical and Physical Propertiesi> the Oils from D ifferent Varieties of Sesame Seed; Antioxidant Properties of Sesamol; Determinstk Southwestern Laboratories of Free and Bound Sesamol; The Stability of Sesam Oil; Determination of Sesamin; Optical Rotation an Consulting Analytical Chemists and Chemical the Minor Components of Sesame Oil. The Chem Engineers and Physiological Properties of Sesame Oil. So® Physical and Chemical Properties of Sesame Pro 1212 Oak Lawn Dallas, Texas tein. Sesame— A New Oilseed Crop for the Soul:

NEWTON TO WASHINGTON Harry P. Newton, Assistant Director of the Soul1 ern Regional Research Laboratory, has accepted tl THE LOUIS ALLIS CO. position of Chemical Consultant to the Chief oft Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chem istY)'1 MILWAUKEE 7, WISCONSIN Washington, D. C., effective July 1. With headquai ELECTRIC MOTORS ters a t Camp Detrick in Frederick, M aryland, SPECIAL AND GENERAL PURPOSE FOR OIL MILL INDUSTRY will serve as liaison between this Bureau, which Self-Cleaning Textile Motor* • Explosion Proof the U. S. Department of Agriculture agency it Enclosed Open Drip Proof sponsible for research on the utilization of fan LINTER DEPARTMENT-HAZARDOUS AREAS crops, and the Department of Defense, Quick Shipment Mr. Newton was the second employee appoints to the staff of the Southern Regional Research Lai) J. B. COLESWORTHY, Representative ratory after it was established in 1938, and the 1709 We«t 8th St. Lot Angelet 17, Calif. DUnkirk 3-2021 to arrive in New Orleans. As Technical Assists to the Director, he carried much of the burden1

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initial organization and administration, making valu­ DR. MARKLEY TO MAKE SURVEY IN able contributions in public relations, personnel en­ PARAGUAY listment, and the formulation of the research pro­ gram. Except for a period of military duty from 1942 to 1945, he has been a key man at the Labora­ tory ever since. On his return from military duty in 1945 he was officially made Assistant Director. Like his administrative and scientific record, Mr. Newton’s military service is outstanding. He rose to the rank of Captain in the First World War, after which he remained active in the Reserve Corps. He was promoted to Major in 1922, to Lieutenant Col­ onel in 1929, and to Colonel in 1936. In that capacity he commanded the Eleventh Anti-Aircraft Artillery group with the First Army in Europe during World War II, receiving the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit, and the French Croix de Guerre avec Palme. In 1949 he was made Brigadier General. Mr. Newton was born and educated in Texas and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor University at Waco, where he also taught chemistry for a while. In 1927, with graduate work at the University of Chicago and several years of teaching experience at other colleges behind him, he became assistant DR. K. S. MARKLEY chemist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, later to be the Bu­ Dr. K. S. Markley, of the Southern Regional Re­ reau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, in search Laboratory, has been detailed to The Insti­ Washington. From this position he transferred to tute of Inter-American Affairs to make a 3-months’ the Southern Regional Research Laboratory in 1939. survey of the production and processing of oilseed He is president of the Louisiana Engineering So­ crops in Paraguay beginning July 18. ciety and a member of several other professional According to Dr. C. H. Fisher, Director of the organizations including the American Chemical So­ Laboratory, this is the third such mission for which ciety, the American Oil Chemists’ Society, the Amer­ Dr. Markley’s service have been requested by other ican Institute of Chemists, the New Orleans Acad­ agencies in recent years. He was loaned to the Food emy of Sciences, the Louisiana Academy of Sciences, and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Alpha Chi Sigma. for a survey of the oilseed situation in Venezuela during 1948, and again in 1950 for a similar study in Guatemala. Dr. Markley is eminently qualified for such work as a result of wide experience in research on soy­ beans, cotton seed, peanuts, rice bran, sesame, and other oilseeds at laboratories of the U. S. Depart­ ment of Agriculture. He has been Head of the Oil and Oilseed Division of the Southern Laboratory since 1939 and, in addition, has supervised the U. S. Tung Oil Laboratory in Bogalusa, La., since 1949. He is the author or co-author of at least 75 articles and two books, and has edited several other books, mostly on oilseeds. Dr. Markley’s outstanding con­ tributions to information on the chemistry and tech­ nology of fats, oils, and oilseeds won for him the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s superior service award in 1950. The survey of oilseed crops in Paraguay, which His Excellency Dr. Angel Florentin Pena, Minister of A g ri­ Dr. Markley is making for the Institute of Inter- culture and Livestock of Paraguay, puts the top on a jar of peanut butter made in the pilot plant of the Southern Re­ American Affairs, is part of the Part IV Program gional Research Laboratory, New Orleans, La., while Dr. of supplying technical aid to assist foreign countries C. H. Fisher, Director (left), and Dr. K. S. Markey, Head in the development of their resources. Dr. Markley of the Oil and Oilseed Division (right) look on. will investigate the production and handling of cot­ Dr. Florentin visited the U SD A Laboratory on July 3 as part of a nation-wide tour of agricultural agencies and farm tonseed, tung nuts and other oilseeds, particularly production areas of the United States, under the auspices of palm nuts. He will be especially concerned with the Department of State. Other stops in the South included possibilities for improving the palm nut cracking the tung section of Mississippi and rice growing areas of Louisiana. operations in the country’s oil mills. Page 42 OIL MILL GAZETTEER August, 19||

THE RAINEY COMPANY APPOINTED seed meals of superior nutritive value can be m YORK SALES ENGINEERS cluced in commercial mills. East Orange, N. J., Aug. 6— Otto H. York, presi­ Under the contract, the Okmulgee Branch (f dent of the Otto H. York Co., Inc., process equip­ Oklahoma A. & M. College will work out procedcn ment manufacturers and engineers, announces the for incorporating this improved cottonseed meal, an! appointment of The Rainey Company, 4219 Yoakum other available cottonseed flours, in bread, rolls Boulevard, Houston 6, as Sales Engineers foi’ the cakes, sweet dough products, doughnuts, cookie; South-Central region. and other baked foods. When satisfactory form ula Under the direction of John B. Rainey, the newly have been developed, the new baked foods will ft appointed organization will handle all the South- evaluated by a taste panel and the most acceptaH Central regional sales and engineering for the York ones selected for tests of consumer acceptance fo line of wire mesh entrainment separators and mist other agencies, including the armed services. eliminatoi’s ; the Scheibel-York multi-stage liquid- These investigations, financed by funds from tb liquid extraction equipment for performing precise Research and Marketing Act, will be part of tfo separations; compressed wire barriers, filters and U. S. Department of Agriculture’s overall prograi strainers, etc., used in the chemical, petroleum and to improve the utilization of cotton seed. other processing industries.

COTTONSEED FLOUR The U. S. Department of Agriculture has entered into a contract with the Okmulgee Branch of Okla­ homa A. & M. College, Okmulgee, Okla., to investi­ gate the use of cottonseed flour in baked products. “Gee, mom, there’s a crazy man This contract will be supervised by the Southern across the street,” cried the little Regional Research Laboratory, a unit of the Bureau boy running into the house. of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, in New "What makes you think he’s Orleans, La. crazy, son?” asked mother. The Southern Laboratory, in cooperation with the “He must be,” declared the boy. cottonseed oil industry, the National Cottonseed “He’s sitting there on the sidewalk Products Association, state experiment stations, and talking to a banana peel.” other agencies of the U. S. Department of Agricul­ ture, has demonstrated experimentally that cotton- Two henpecked husbands were discussing marriage. “I wish I could be more like Tom White,” We Specialize in said one wistfully. “He says that whenever he speaks his wife (M L JifpsA - ofc jumps.” “She sure does,” answered the other derisively, “ all over him.” * * * Structural Steel Fabrication It was the first lesson in the for cooking class. The teacher was THE OIL MILL INDUSTRY questioning her little pupils. “Who can tell me what a waffle is?” she ^ Cotton Seed Houses questioned. One little girl spoke up proudly, ^ Cotton Seed Storage Bins “I can, teacher; it’s a pancake with ^ Soy Bean Storage Tanks a non-skid tread.” * * * ^ Unloading Sheds “Well, Billy, do you find that ----- >■ Any Special Steel glasses help your eyes?” inquired Fabrication Including teacher. Angle Rolling “Oh yes, ma’am,” replied Billy o decidedly. “I don’t get my eyes blacked nearly as much now as I Jib Cranes and Hoists used to.” :i: * * The little fellow climbed into the Goodrich Rubber Belting barber’s chair and settled himself. V-Belts and Sheaves “Well, my little man,” said the barber, “how do you want your "50,005 Structural £ Maintenance Supplies" hair cut today?” “ I want ’em cut like daddy’s,” insisted the boy, PIDGEON-THOMAS IRON CO. “with a hole on top.” MEMPHIS, TENN.

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