Oil Mill Gazetteer OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS* ASSOCIATION AND TRI-STATES COTTONSEED OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS* ASSOCIATION Vol. 47; No. 12 Wharton, Texas, June, 1943 Price 10 Cents It Will Pay You to Investigate The FORT'WORlH BRUSHLESS LINTER DEVICE ^^'I HEN installed in a delinting ma­ yond any doubt. It was thoroughly tested chine, this new patented device for more than a year under actual op­ removes the lint from the linter saws erating conditions before it was offered by utilizing the air suction from the to the trade. Several complete installa­ lint flue system. The linter brush is tions have been in service for the entire entirely eliminated. past season, during which the device has The success of the Fort Worth Brush- proven highly satisfactory in full accor­ less Linter Device has been proven be­ dance with the advantages listed below.

1. Eliminates the linter brush, thus saving the cost of bristle strip replacements and other maintenance expense. 2. Saves two to five horsepower per linter, depending on operating speed of brush and type of brush. 3. Better mo ting control is possible; less good cotton goes with the motes and less trash with the lint. 4. Saves in cost of linter belts. A 4" wide belt can be used where formerly a 6" belt was required. 5. Lint flue system fan can usually be run slower at a power saving, as less air is required.

Orders for more than 150 brushless linter attachments have been received since the device was announced in April. We invite you to see the Fort Worth Brushless Linter Device in actual operation so that you can prove to your own satisfaction the value of this important improvement in delinting machinery. Names of mills in your locality who are using this device will be furnished on request.

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Tell us confidentially your plans or needs. Our engineers will recommend for your par­ Hydraulic Power ticular problem. Pumps Steel Press for Cotton Seed THE FRENCH OIL MILL MACHINERY CO. PI QUA, OHIO, U.S.A. Oil M ill Gazetteer OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS’ ASSOCIATION and TRI-STATES COTTONSEED OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS’ ASSOCIATION President Chandler’s Letter I hope everyone enjoyed the Short Course as changes in the arrangement of the machinery, that much as I did. I think everything went on as well is, changes to all standard size machines, there is as could be expected under the crowded conditions no telling how much good the oil mill industry could we had in the mill. derive from it. I do not think I ever saw a more interested I think the members made a mighty good selec­ bunch of superintendents in one group before. They tion in our new vice-president. I am delighted with were all interested in learning everything they pos­ the choice, and I know our good friend Pete will sibly could. I believe the size of the crowd would do everything he can for the good of the association; indicate the necessity for a larger mill building, and and he is plenty capable. I truly hope something can be done about it in the I deeply appreciate the honor of serving as your near future. president, and I solicit your support. Write me and I was mighty glad to see so many new faces let me have your ideas about how things should go. there, and I hope they will continue to attend. I Remember, this is your association. would also like to see some letters in the Gazetteer telling us what they think of the Short Course. C. M. CHANDLER, President. I believe, with a building of our own and a few Lubbock, Texas, June 2, 1943. Secretary Wilson's Message To the Members of Our Association: check. We know that there are demands on every First I want to say to those of you who could hand for Red Cross and war funds of all kinds, but, not attend our meeting at College Station or the fellows, we cannot afford to let our association down, short course at the college, you missed one of the even in war times, Association expenses go on just best courses of study that we have ever had, and the same. you missed a good meeting, for there were 167 The writer appreciates very much the confidence men at the short course, that were really interested shown in him by his re-election as secretary-treas- in their industry and their work, and they did not urer, and all we can say and do for the association go down there to play. is too little. Again we say thank you for your ex­ We had 37 active members present, and elected pression of confidence in us, So let’s all pull to­ five new members, making 42 members in attend­ gether, to make our association a better and bigger ance at the business meeting. association than ever before, and back our officers To those of you who were not able to attend the to the limit, and let them know it through the meeting, you can expect a statement very shortly columns of the Gazetteer. for dues, and if you wish to save the secretary some work, why sit right down and let us have your YOUR SECRETARY. Business Session of the National Oil Mill Superintendents Association Thier 49th Annual Meeting President C. M. Chandler took the chair im­ Glazner, Palestine, Texas; George Bittner, Okla­ mediately after the adjournment of the banquet, homa City, Okla.; W. A. Davis, Childress, Texas. m the college mess hall, and called the meeting to C. M. Chandler was nominated by C. W. Rankin for order. After the election of new members, he de­ president, and was unanimously elected. H. D. livered his annual address, which follows this re­ Reeves, of Corsicana, Texas, was nominated by port, along with the secretary's financial report. Senator Woodward for vice-president, and Mr. After the secretary’s report was read and Reeves was unanimously elected. H. E. Wilson was a^°P^ed> the only business on hand was the election nominated by Bruce, of Lamesa, and Lonnie Davis, ot officers for the incoming year. The old board of and was unanimously elected as secretary-treasurer. directors was held over by a unanimous vote, The following state vice-presidents were elected: name'iy: K. A. McLachlin, Loving, N. M .; H. B. Arkansas, C. W. Hoover, of Wilson; California, H. CM* S O V - V t

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F. Crossno, of Los Angeles; Louisiana, J. W. Thomp­ son, of Ruston; Georgia, W. W. Orr, of Macon; Mississippi, C. C. Castillow, of Greenville; New Mexico, R. W. Gorman, of Roswell; Oklahoma, A. C. Ross, of Purcell; Tennessee, W. E. Hassler, of Mem­ phis; North Texas, R. M. Julian, of Colorado; South Texas, G. W. Moody, of Taylor; Mexico, Salvador F.

The HAMMOND hcrew yi& oL and £tcrew li££ AN ULTRA MODERN MEANS OF ELEVATING AND CONVEYING The Screw-Veyor conveys horizontally or on an incline. The Screw-Lift conveys vertically. These two units com­ bined iorm an integrated, smooth-running, condensed system for the m ovem ent of any free-flowing bulk materials. We have installed almost a hundred of these units dur­ ing the past year and they are all "working marvels." "HAMMOND" construction eliminates the possibility of conveyor rubbing the tubing and making a noisy, un­ satisfactory system. "HAMMOND" design consists of precision built tubular sections which permit higher lifts than heretofore were possible by vertical conveying. Why not modernize your plant the "Ham­ C. M. CHANDLER, Lubbock Texas, mond" way? Outline your problem and we Elected for full term as President, National Oil Mill Superin­ will offer a solution. tendents Association, at annual meeting at College Station, Texas.

U.S. Pat. No. 2260311- Other U.S. and For­ Rojas, Gomez Palacio, Durango; South America, 2260812-2279201 eign Patents Pending Chas. G. H. P. Cochrane, Catacaos, Peru. For the Twenty-Five Year Club, all officers were held over. Screw Conveyor Corporation HOFFMAN ST. HAMMOND, IND. The president's address and secretary’s report If EMOINEERS AIMO 1 J r i MANUFACTUfttRS W are as folows: President’s Annual Address With times and conditions as they are today, we are all called upon to put forth more effort and hard work than ever before. All war industries must co-operate with each other, ours being no ex­ H o t e l P e a b o d y ception, for we are all working towards the same Memphis, Tennessee common goal, total victory. "South's Finest — One of America's Best" Our industry is a very essential one, as you all know. The government and our allies need every * pound of oil, linters, cake and hulls it is possible for us to produce. And with price control becoming Make THE PEABODY Your Headquarters more prevalent every day, the margin of profit the mill will be able to show will be very small com­ 'k Centrally located pared with previous times. Therefore it behooves us to speed up production as much as possible, con­ Meeting-place of sistent with efficient milling. This in turn calls upon the oil mill superintendent to use his head for some­ the Mid-South thing- besides keeping his necktie from slipping off. ★ Five Restaurants I once saw a poster which read: “God gave a man two ends, one to think with, the otner to sit upon, ★ Convention and his progress in life depends upon which end Facilities he uses most. Heads you win, and tails you lose.” Dining and Dancing Nightly in We are going to have to use all of the resource­ the Glamourous fulness at our command. Our mills, when we have the necessary seed to crush, must be in good me­ SKYWAY chanical condition, ready to operate continuously to without undue loss of time. With practically every kind of material we use to repair our plants being "Nationally Known Orchestras on the critical list, much closer supervision and in­ F. R. SCHUTT spection are required of the superintendent. It is Vice-President and General M a n a g e r much cheaper and easier to inspect our machinery p a t r o n iz e your advertisers Page 8 O I L MILL GAZETTEER June, 1943

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C o n t i n e n t a l G in C o m p a n y ATLANTA BIRMINGHAM DALLAS MEMPHIS ★ ------* PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS June, 1943______O IL MILL GAZETTEER ______Page 9 at more frequent intervals than to wait for such con­ ditions as will require major overhaul jobs, to say nothing of the expense of lost time and production. ALLIGATOR The class of labor we are forced to work in times for belt such as we have now is an added burden to the oil mill superintendent. We have to devote more time in J U S T A v lacing hours attempting to train them, and with the huge turn­ H A M M E R T O over that we have experienced the past season, this A P P L Y I T ” .. One of our lunch hour certainly has consumed no small part of our time. ^ statisticians estimates that two hun­ dred million belts have been laced with This has been a very busy season for all of us, Alligator steel belt lacing since its intro­ with new problems arising almost daily. Seed grad­ duction thirty years ago. ing is something new to the most of us, and I believe Drives straight If these belts could all tell their story it will be the salvation of most of the mills, espe­ Compression grip of performance it would be summed up protects belt ends in "extra belt lacing hours." cially in parts of the country where we have so much Smooth on both faces Since the original patent expired there rough bolly seed to work. Embeds in belt have been many lacings that looked like Rocker hinge pin Alligator. But fortunately for Alligator With the speculative element removed from the Joint easily separated the making of belt lacing is a highly buying and selling end of the business, we cannot specialized job. Years of research, expect the management to save the day with some backed by thousands of dynamometer lucky break in the markets. We simply must im­ tests plus better alloy steels and the constant improvement in die making and prove upon our milling, and to do this we must stamping practice, have been responsible improve ourselves. To this end the National Oil for these extra belt lacing hours. Mill Superintendents Association was organized. Every plant should have a supply of This also was the purpose in mind for the short Alligator steel belt lacing on hand. course here at A. and M. College, and I am confident (5 EDITIONS and Twelve sizes for flat belts of all types still going strong up to 5/a" thick. Special lengths for wide • Here is a 72-page belts. Also made in-''Monel" and "Ever- pocket size manual, dur.' Order from your supply house. "Short Cuts to Power Transmission," that FLEXIBLE STEEL LACING CO. presents a wealth of 4bU/ Lexington bt., ^m cayu, ill. practical information abcut transmission and conveyor belts. Offers pointers on how to care for belts, methods of lacing, ALLIGATOR how to repair con-, TIRADE MAR.K REG-. veyor belts, etc. WHITE FOR YOUR COPY STEEL BELT LACING

Over 25 Texas Oil Mills Are Using: TON-TEX BELTING EXPERIENCE has shown TON-TEX a MASTER for driving: LINTERS, ROLLS, ATTRITION MILLS, FANS, ™ , , . H. D. REEVES, Corsicana, Texas, or on any drive where hard work and shock Elected Vice-President of the National Oil Mill Superin- loads are encountered. endents Association, at their annual meeting at College Station, Texas. TON-TEX BELTS can easily be made ENDLESS on drive without disturbing pulleys, bearings, couplings, those of us who came here with a receptive mind or machine and shafting adjustment. and an urge to learn are bound to leave with some TON-TEX has less permanent stretch than other types of belting; therefore take-ups not necessary. LINTER worth-while information that will be of much value BELTS in use five seasons have never been touched. to both ourselves and our companies. ATTRITION MILLS, SEED UNLOADERS. BLOWERS, We are indeed indebted to the Texas Cottonseed are successfully being driven with TON-TEX ENDLESS u ushers Association and to the A. and M. College Belts without use of idlers or take-ups of any kind. TON-TEX BELTING is showing two to one life over 0 j-exas, as well as several individuals for giving other belts on Oily Rolls and difficult drives. and untiringly of their time to make pos- WE GUARANTEE Longer Belt Life. More efficient iDie this educational enterprise. I think the least Service at Less Cost. we can do is to avail ourselves of the splendid op­ ENGINEERING data cheerfully furnished. portunity afforded. fpyj11 the National Oil Mill Superin- ii a<^ts Association and myself, I want to thank CEN-TEX SERVICE CO. e , exas A. and M. College for the privilege P. 0 . BOX 951 WACO, TEXAS fnii i^s this short business session. We “A Complete Belting Service" y realize the fact that this is a concession on the PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 10 O IL MILL GAZETTEER June, I943 part of the college, and we want them to know that Report of Secretary-Treasurer we deeply appreciate it. I want to thank our good friends the machinery Cash receipts for year ending April 30, 1943__ men and their association for their splendid part Cash on hand and in bank. and co-operation in the short course. We want them May 1, 1942...... $572.43 to feel that they are just as much a part of the Received from Oil Mill short course as any of us, and we are mighty glad Gazetteer contract...... 150.00 so many of them are able to be here. Receipts for d u e s...... 550.00 $1,272 4* It has been a privilege and pleasure to serve as Cash paid out for year ending best I could the unexpired term of president, April 30, 1943— brought about, as you know, by President Verdery’s Salary for secretary- entrance into the armed services of our country. I Treasurer...... $300.00 want to sincerely thank our secretary and those of Traveling expenses ...... 170.81 you who have been so kind as to assist me in carry­ Stamps and stationery...... 19.50 ing out the duties of the president, and I hope that Payment to Oil Mill my efforts have not been too great a disappointment Gazetteer— Subscriptions. 115.00 All other expenses...... 207.48 to the membership as a whole. 812.79 I thank you. C. M. CHANDLER. Cash on hand and in bank May 1, 1943 ...... 459.64 U. S. Defense Bonds on hand.. . . 1,184.00 Cash and U. S. Defense Bonds on hand May 1, 1943...... HOUSTON LABORATORIES $1,643.64 F. R. ROBERTSON, Ph. C. Note: Cash maturity of Defense B o n d s ...... $1,350.00 Analytical and Consulting Chemist I swear (or affirm) that the above statement is COTTONSEED AND PEANUT PRODUCTS true and correct. H. E. WILSON, A SPECIALTY S. R. Harmanson, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer. Audited Member National C. S. P. A. and Texas Cotton Seed Crushers Association and Referee Chemist The State of Texas, County of Wharton. of the American Oil Chemists Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 22nd Society day of May, 1943. Cleo Thompson, Long Distance Phone: Houston 2G7 Notary Public in and for Wharton County, Texas. 1206,/2 Preston Avenue HOUSTON, TEXAS (Seal) June, 1945.

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FROM H. E. (POP) WILSON, Wharton, Texas, Re-elected Secretary-Treasurer of the National Oil Mill MEMPHIS Superintendents Association. TENNESSEE THE BIG PROBLEM The cop came upon a pleasantly j ’ngled indi­ vidual, early on a frosty morn, trying to unlock the door of his house. Visit the Sensational New “Would you like me to handle that key for you?” BALINESE ROOM asked the cop. “Nope,” replied the drunk, “I can hold the key— you just keep the house steady.” PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS June, 1943 OTL MILL GAZETTEER Page 11

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PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 12 O IL MILL GAZETTEER June, 19 4 3 The Short Course

COTTONSEED OPERATORS’ FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SHORT COURSE, A. & M. COLLEGE

The Fifteenth Annual Short Course for Cotton­ college. At the end of his speech, he touched on the seed Oil Mill Operators at A. and M. College of proposed new building to house the cottonseed oil Texas, held May 24th through 28th, was a decided laboratory, for which the money has been allotted, success. The attendance was the largest ever had at but thus far no materials can be had for the erec­ any past short course. There were men from Cali­ tion of the building. However, it is hoped that this fornia, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, order will come through from the War Production Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Board very shortly, and we can have the new build­ Carolina, Alabama, old Mexico, and Bombay, India, ing by this time next year. If we have another a total registration of 167, of which there were 155 record-breaking crowd next year, the new building active oil mill superintendents that came to take the will be needed badly. short course, and they took it. There were eight men present that have not missed a single year, and After the banquet, a business meeting of the a large number who have been back several years, National Oil Mill Superintendents Association was and all went away declaring they were well satisfied held, of which there is a report on another page. with their work and will come back again next Thursday, there were registered about 35 ma­ year if given the opportunity. chinery and supply men, who were guests at the Dr. Charley Rankin, supervisor of the short banquet, and after the banquet they held their busi­ course, got things under control at the very start, ness meeting and election of officers. and organized the course into five groups, with men Friday was cleanup or finishing up day for the who have had several years’ experience at the course. Final tests were made and the laboratory course, and he divided the work among these groups, cleaned up, and Friday evening the oil mill men and also gave them the right to make any tests they were interested in. were the guests of the Oil Mill Machinery Manufac­ turers and Supply Association at a chicken supper The first day was given to peanuts, under the (the feathered kind) at the Avalon Club, on the direction of H. B. Glazner, of Palestine. The second Bryan-Caldwell Highway, and every one had a royal day was soy bean day, with two or three men who good time. This was one of the regular dinners that have been crushing-beans this year guiding the work the machinery and supply men can put on so well, on that score. Then after the peanuts and soy beans in their usual grand manner. Every one who at­ were out of the way, the old master went back to tended the dinner Friday evening left telling every­ his first love and spent the rest of the week on cot­ body else we will see you again next year. ton seed, and we hope to have a full and complete report on all tests for the July issue if the boys can get the data to the Gazetteer in time for the July Gazetteer. ATTENDANCE AT SHORT COURSE Thursday evening the annual banquet was served Advisory Board in the mess hall of the college, with the editor acting College members: Dr. F. C. Bolton, vice-presi­ as toastmaster. Dean Gib Gilchrist, dean of engi­ dent of the college, dean of the college; Dean Gibb neering of A. and M. College, was the top speaker, Gilchrist, dean of school of engineering; Dr. J- D- his address being principally on war work at the Lindsay, head of department of chemical engineer- June, 1943 O IL MILL GAZETTEER Page 13

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ing-; Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of the department of WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A chemistry. Texas Cottonseed Crushers’ Association mem­ bers: Henry Womble, Womble Oil Mill Company, TROUBLE-FREE CRIMP Caldwell, Texas; G. A. Simmons, Lubbock Cotton Oii Company, Lubbock, Texas. Suggestions on how to keep presses running steadily National Cottonseed Oil Mill Superintendents' during the crushing season by avoiding Association: H. E. Wilson, People’s Cotton Oil Com­ crimp troubles . . . at no pany, Wharton, Texas; C. W. Rankin, Brenham extra cost. Cotton Oil and Manufacturing Company, Brenham, LAP CONSTRUCTION. Exhaustive studies of crimp Texas. operation have shown conclusively that you can ex­ Director of Short Course: Professor F. F. pect best performance from a lap-constructed crimp. Bishop, department of chemical engineering. A glance at the drawing will show you why. Registration: L. C. Claitor, department of chem­ ical engineering. Registration Acock, Robert, Acock Laboratories, Austin, Texas. Adams, V. A., Amory Cotton Oil Co., Inc., A m ory, Miss. Ames, John, Temple Cotton Oil Co., Hope, Ark. Austin, Ed., Continental Gin Co., Memphis, Tenn. Babbitt, John F., French Oil Mill Mchry Co., Piqua, Ohio. Baggett C. B., Rule-Jayton Cotton Oil Co., Stamford, Texas. Leather from the center section of the hide varies in Baker, Edward, Magnolia Cotton Oil Co., Magnolia, Ark. fibre structure in proportion to its width. The narrower Baker, P. H., Texas Company, Dallas, Texas. Barton, D. A., Hamilton Oil Mill Co., Hamilton, Texas. the strip the more uniform it is. . . . A lap-constructed Battenfield, Albert, Carver Cot ton Gin Co., Dallas, Texas. crimp is made from a STRIP of leather less than l/5th Beard, H. T., Rule-Jayton Cotton Oil Co., Stamford, Texas. the width of the circle required for a circle-constructed Bittner, George, Southwestern Cotton Oil Co., Oklahoma City. crimp. Therefore, the leather in a lap-constructed crimp Blahuta, Frank, Coryell C’nty Cotton Oil Co., Gatesville, Tex. Brooks, Olin, Carver Cotton Gin Co., Dallas, Texas. is more uniform throughout. Brooks, W. D., Farmers Agri. Prod. Co., Collierville, Tenn. In forming a lap-constructed crimp, leather is folded Brown, R. L., Houston Cotton Oil Co., Houston, Texas. over rather than drawn or pulled . . . resulting in much Brown, W. W., West Texas Cotton Oil Co., Littlefield, Texas. greater strength at the shoulder. Bruce, John B., Southland Cotton Oil Co., Waxahachie, Texas. Bryan, F. P., Brownwood Cotton Oil Mill, Brownwood, Texas. And. G Soybeans f f HERE’S EQUIPMENT VOU’LL NEED Successful processing of soybeans requires care­ ful grading. Equipment shown here is necessary for profit-making short-cuts. Order from Seed- buro now while stocks are still available.

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Henderson, Oliver, Cherokee Cotton Oil Mills, Ft. Smith 4 Hendley, S. M., McCulloch Co. Cotton Oil Mill, Brady % Henry, Roy, West Texas Cottonoil Co., Plainview, Texas ^ SUPER STEEL LINTER SAWS Hernandez, J. J., Anderson, Clayton & Co., Brownsville t Hillebrand, W . F., Sealy Oil M ill & Mfg. Co., Sealy, Texas651 Hinton, A. F., Temple Cotton Oil Co., Ashdown, Ark. Hoover, I. M., Opelousas Oil Mill, Opelousas, La. Hotchkiss, Glenn R., U. S. Dept, of Agr., Gorman, Texas its<25 on — Howell, J. W ebb., B ryan Cotton Oil & Fert. Co., Bryan, Tex Humphries, Supt., El Paso Cotton Ind., Las Cruces, N.’m " opatatlon upkeep Johnson, Fred, People’s Cotton Oil Co., Wharton, Texas. Johnson, G. C., Tornillo Cotton Oil Co., Tornillo, Texas. Johnston, R. C., Hamlin Cotton Oil Co., Hamlin, Texas. Jones, J. B., Temple Cotton Oil Co., Ashdown, Ark. Julian, R. M., Continental Oil-Cotton Co., Colorado, City, Tex A PERFECT FIT Kane, J. G., Dept, of Chem. Tech., Univ. of Bombay, India Keahey, H. P., V. D. 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Walker, R. N., Southland Cotton Oil Co., Temple, Texas. Magnolia Petroleum Co., Dallas, Texas. Walker* W. C., Southland Cotton Oil Co., Waxahachie, Texas. Mosher Steel Co., Dallas, Texas; D. E. Weatherford. Wallace, R. A., H. Schumacher Oil Works, Navasota, Texas. National Blow Pipe & Mfg. Co., New Orleans, La. Wasson, George, Cherokee Cotton Oil M ills, Ft. Sm ith, Ark. Oil Mill Gazetteer, Wharton, Texas; H. E. Wilson. Weatherford, D. E., Mosher Steel Co., Dallas, Texas. Oriental Trans. & Pkg. Co., Dallas, Texas; S. O. Womack. West, Morris, Clarksville Cotton Oil Co., Clarksville, Texas. Oriental Textile Mills, Houston, Texas. Westbrook, Lee, M agnolia Cotton Oil Co., M agnolia, Ark. Riechman-Crosby Co., Houston, Texas. Williams, H. H., Coleman Cotton Oil Mill, Coleman, Texas, Royal Fire Brick & Supply Co., Houston, Texas. Wilson, Fred L., Planters Cotton Oil Mill, Ennis, Texas. SKF Industries, Inc., Dallas, Texas. Wilson, Harry A., Peoples Cotton Oil Co., Wharton, Texas. San Antonio Mach. & Sup. Co., San Antonio, Texas. Wilson, Harry E., Peoples Cotton Oil Co., Wharton, Texas. Screw Conveyor Corp., Hammond, Ind. Wingo, W. H., Jr., Wingo Oil Mill, Wills Point, Texas. Texas Chas. A. Schieren Co., Dallas, Texas; C. T. Sowden. Wolfenden, G. D., Elk City Cottonoil Co., Elk City, Okla. Sheppard Plate & Machine Works, Atlanta, Ga. Womack, E. W., Nashville Cot. Oil Mill Corp., Nashville, Tenn. Southwestern Supply & Mach. Works, Oklahoma City. Woodall, L. C., Hamilton Oil Mill Co., Hamilton, Texas. Sowden Sales Co., Dallas, Texas; Webb M. Sowden. Visitors Sterling Packing & Gasket Co., Houston, Texas. Texas Power & Light Co., Dallas, Texas; W. R. Fry, Collier, J. T., Magnolia Petroleum Co., Dallas, Texas. U. H. Ohrman. Conaway, J. E., Briggs-Weaver Mchry. Co., Dallas, Texas. Well Machinery & Supply Co., Fort Worth, Texas; R. L. Dabbs, 0. D., M agnolia Petroleum Co., Bryan, Texas. McCann, G. B. Smith. Davis, W. A„ Childress Cotton Oil Mill, Childress, Texas. Wood, A. A., & Sons Co., Atlanta, Ga. Hagan, M. E., Briggs-Weaver Mchry. Co., Dallas, Texas. Hale, Fred, Texas A. & M. Agr. Exp. Station, College Station. Harris, W. D., A. & M. College, Dept, of Chem, Eng., College Station. Hettrick, S. F., Hettrick Mfg. Co., Toledo, Ohio. Huff, N. c. Jackson, L. B., Ft. W orth Steel & M chry Co., Ft. W orth, Tex. LABORATORIES,In*. Leahy, John, Cot. Research Committee, College Station, Tex. Lichte, F. E.. Extension Service, A. & M. College, College MEMPHIS,TENN. Station, Texas. Lockett, Chas. L., Bauer Bros. Co., Springfield, Ohio. Lyman, Carl, Texas A. & M. Agr. Exp. Station, College Sta­ tion, Texas. Molnari, Bob, Eggelhof Engineers, Dallas, Texas. Reed, G. C., Ft. Worth Steel & Mchry Co., Ft. Worth, Texas. Roe, James C-, Continental G in Co., Dallas, Texas. Sowden, Webb M., Sowden Sales Co., Dallas, Texas. DUCT Spence, T. R., Texas A. & M. Eng. Exp. Station, College Station, Texas. Thompson, R. E., H. Schumacher Oil Works, Navasota, Texas. Tuttle, W. S., Link-Belt Co., Dallas, Texas. NTROL Walden, E .B., Briggs-Weaver Mchry. Co., Dallas, Texas. Wamble, A. C., Cotton Research Committee, College Station,

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CONTRIBUTORS LEATHER BELTING for all Following is a list of members of the O il M ill M achinery Manufacturers and Supply Association who contributed to OIL MILL and GINNING MACHINERY the entertainment fund and representatives who attended the meeting held at College Station, Texas, M ay, 1943: “AKRON” Akron Belting Co., Akron Ohio; A. P. Chambers. CAN SUPPLY THEM Alamo Iron Works, San Antonio, Texas. Anderson, V. D., Co., Cleveland, Ohio; H. P. Keahey. Branch Office and Repair Plant at 406 South Second St. Bauer Bros. Co., Springfield, Ohio; Chas. L. Lockett, Memphis, Tenn. Chas. C. Cantrell. Leather Belting in Sizes to 20" in Stock at the Briggs-Weaver M achinery Co., D allas, Texas; J . E . Con­ Memphis Branch way, M. E. Hagan, L. B. Jackson, E. B. Walden. Buckeye Iron & Brass Works, Dayton, Ohio. Butters Manufacturing Co., Atlanta, Ga. THE AKRON BELTING CO. Carver Cotton Gin Co., Dallas, Texas; Albert Battenfield, Akron, Ohio C. L. Printup, Olin Brooks. Leather Belting Makers Since 1885 Chicago Belting Co., Chicago, III. Continental Gin Co., D allas, Texas; G uy B. Lawhon, James C. Roe. Cotton & Cotton Oil Press, Dallas, Texas. When In Need of Good Merchandise__and Clipper Belt Lacer Co., Grand Rapids, M ich.; J. E. Gibson. Davidson-Kennedy Co., A tla n ta , Ga. Quick Service— Get In Touch With . . . Dillon Scale Co., D allas, Texas. Duecker Bros. Belting & Supply Co., Dallas, Texas; F. C. Duecker. Eggelhof Engineers, D allas, Texas; H enry Eggelhof, Bob Lone Star Bag & Bagging Co. Molnari. (INCORPORATED) ESTABLISHED 1921 Flexible Steel Lacing Co., Chicago, 111.; J. W. Gillespie. L. D. 540 P. O. Box 1673 Fort Worth Steel & Mach. Co., Fort Worth, Texas; L. U. Cole, G. C. Reed. HOUSTON, TEXAS French Oil Mill Mach. Co., Piqua, Ohio; Jno. F. Babbitt. Carlock Packing Co., Palmyra, N. Y. IMPERIAL BRAND SUGAR BAG CLOTH Graton & Knight Co., Dallas, Texas; H. L. Cook. Helm Mfg. Co., Fort Worth, Texas. 2-LB. HOUSTON BRAND SUGAR BAG CLOTH Hettrick Mfg. Co., Toledo, O hio; S. F. Hetrick. FULL WEIGHT Houston Belting & Supply Corp., Houston, Texas; Paul D- Long, J. N. Fender. NEW & SECOND HAND BURLAP BAGS Link-Belt Co., Dallas, Texas; W . S. T uttle. PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 18 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Iune, 1943

i l il l a z e t t e e r ROJAS GETS FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATE O M G Senor Salvador F. Rojas, Industrial Jabonera Official Organ of the La Esperanza, Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico National Oil Mill Superintendents Association applied for examination for a first-grade certificate and the Tri-States Cottonseed Oil Mill Superintendents Association of membership in the National Oil Mill Superin­ Published monthly by the Oil Mill Gazetteer tendents Association. President Chandler appointed Wharton, Texas an examining committee, and Senor Rojas passed Entered as second-class m atter at the postoffice at W harton, with a good grade, and is now a first-grade member Texas, under Act of Congress of March, 1879 of the association. Senor Rojas is to be congratu­ Subscription, $1.00 a year, in advance lated in his interest in our association and what it Advertising rates furnished upon application stands for, and we hope that he has set an example H . E . Wilson ...... E dito r for others to shoot at in the future. Jane Inez Gordon ...... Associate Editor, Memphis, Tenn. LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS At the meeting of the association, telegrams were received from Daddy Parkhouse and Past President M. C. Verdery. Letters were received from State Vice-President McElreath, and M. 0, Dimphl, expressing their regret that they could not attend the meeting. The secretary sent telegrams to Past President Verdery and Mr. Parkhouse, and a message of greet­ ing to Past President J. Tom Turner, who is ill at home in Hillsboro.

SOLVENT EXTRACTION A bulletin just issued by the A. and M. College of Texas, on “Solvent Extration of Cottonseed Oil,” The Oil Mill Gazetteer does not necessarily endorse all the by Dr. W. D. Harris, can be had by writing the opinions expressed in contributions appearing herein. As the official organ of the National Oil Mill Superintendents Asso­ chemical engineering department at the college. Dr. ciation and Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Association, Harris is to be congratulated on his expose of solvent this journal carries official communications and articles con­ extraction of cottonseed oil, and we hope from time cerning the activities of the associations, but in all other re­ spects the associations are not responsible for what appears to time to be able to publish excerpts from this bul­ in these pages, including opinions to which expression is given. letin. Dr. Harris is research assistant professor in the school of engineering of the college. OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION C. M. Chandler, Lubbock, Texas ...... President H. D. Reeves, Corsicana, T e x a s ...... Vice-President LATE—-AGAIN! H. E. W ilson, W harton, T e x a s ...... Secretary-Treasurer W ith labor shortages of all kinds the publish­ BOARD OF DIRECTORS ing houses are fellow sufferers of ours. Our pub­ K. A. M c L a c h lin ...... Loving, New Mexico H. B. Glazner ...... Palestine, Texas lisher calls us up on the phone and tells us we can­ George B it t n e r ...... Oklahom a City, Oklahom a not get the Gazetteer out as early as expected. We W . A. D a v is ...... Childress, Texas arc sorry; we are short of manpower, hut are doing STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS our utmost to make the deadline, so fellows if the Arkansas ...... C. W . Hoover ...... W ilson Gazetteer is late in the month getting to you, there California ...... H. F. Crossno ...... Los Angeles is no one to blame but Hitler, Hirohito, and Musso­ Georgia ...... W . W . O rr ...... Macon lini. Then to add to that delay the mails are slow Louisiana ...... J. W. Thompson ...... Ruston also; but we will get it to you at the earliest pos­ Mississippi ...... C. C. Castillow ...... Greenville New Mexico ...... R. W. Gorman ...... Roswell sible moment.— EDITOR. Oklahom a ...... A. C. R o s s ...... Purcell Tennessee ...... W. E. Hassler ...... Memphis North Texas ...... R. M. Julian ...... Colorado South Texas ...... G. W . M o o d y ...... Taylor JOE FENDER WITH HOUSTON BELTING Mexico ...... Salvador F. Rojas . . Gomez Palacio, Dgo., Mexico J. N. (Joe) Fender, who for many years has South America .... Chas. G. P. Cochrane . . Catacaos, Peru been connected with a Dallas supply house, is now representing the Houston Belting & Supply Cor­ OIL MILL MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS AND poration in the central Texas territory. Mr. Fender SUPPLY ASSOCIATION will devote most of his efforts toward servicing and R. L. McCann, Fort Worth, Texas ...... President O lin Brooks, Dallas, Texas ...... Secretary-Treasurer supplying the needs of the various cotton seed oil mills and gins in this territory. Mr. Fender, TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CLUB through his many years in this territory, has earned Charles W. Rankin, Bren ham, Texas ...... President a host of friends and we feel sure that these friends Eugene Bradshaw, Houston, Texas ...... Vice-President will wish him all the success possible in his ne'f) H. E. Wilson, Wharton, Texas ...... Secretary-Treasurer venture. Page 19 Tune, 1943 OIL MILL GAZETTEER

E X P A N D E D PRODUCTION 200 PER CENT LIST OF LINTER PARTS FOR SALE Hopewell, Va., April 13.— Aided by Brazilian PARTS GOOD AS NEW and Mexican cotton linters supplementing the record 11 Iron head linter brushes; practically new; output of American cottonseed oil mills, the Hope- bristles good condition. Brushes complete with well plant of Hercules Powder Company has ex­ 1 11-16 shaft turned to fit Carver sleeve type ball panded production 200 per cent since the outbreak bearings. NEW PRICE, $71.10 each; OUR 0f war, Lloyd Kitchel, general manager, Virginia PRICE, $40.00 each. Cellulose Department of Hercules, told an Army- Navy "E” Award audience here today. 7 Wood head brushes with steel plates for lag The Hopewell plant, one of the world’s largest screws. These brushes are in good condition; producers of chemical cotton pulp, purifies the bristle strips good. Also equipped with 1 11/16 linters for eventual use in smokeless powder, as well shafts for ball bearings. PRICE, AS IS, $25.00 as in plastics, in lacquers for shells, planes, and each. tanks, and in rayon cord tires for airplane and army (All the above brushes are filled with hair truck tires. N bristles instead of the substitute bristles.) “The cottonseed oil mills in this country, Brazil, 18 New type all steel adjustable draft shields; only and Mexico were called upon to produce more cot­ used short time; good condition (complete). ton linters than ever before, and to make them NEW PRICE, $11.00 each; Our price, $6.00 available to our industry,” Kitchel said. “They each. gladly gave up their usual commercial outlets and have co-operated 100 per cent with the government- 18 New type adjustable division boards, complete sponsored cotton linter program. Without the help with adjusting parts. NEW PRICE, $7.50 each; of the oil mills, and the transportation companies, Our price, $4.00 each. it would have been much more difficult for us to have done our part in building up the huge supplies 18 All steel mote boards; Carver type; good con­ of powder which we need to win this war,” he con­ dition. NEW PRICE, $4.00 each; Our price, cluded. $2.50 each. Cuero Cotton Oil & Mfg. Co., Cuero, Texas. The “E ” pennant was presented to W. E. Henry, plant manager, by Col. Lucian D. Booth, command­ ing officer, Radford Ordnance Works, which is operated for the government by Hercules. Employe FOR SALE “E” pins were awarded by Lt. Com. Charles L. 1 Four-cylinder 250-H.P. Busch Sulzer Bros. Diesel Kessler, U. S. N. R., officer in charge, U. S. Navy Engine, in good condition. Recruiting Station, Richmond, Va. 1 French Former. 1 Cracked Cake Sizing Reel. 10 Lummus Automatic 70-Saw Gins with five 70- F IR E FREA K Saw Lint Flue. “Early one morning volunteer firemen in Lohr- 10 Blewett Extractor Feeders for 70-Saw Gins. ville, Iowa, rushed several miles eastward on their 2 Murray Heavy Double Box Presses, Steel Sills, pumper, guided by a glow in the sky. It turned out Steel Platen, complete with Ram and Casing. to be the sunrise.”— Reader’s Digest. 1 Lummus Triplex Belt Driven Hydraulic Pump. 1 Murray Triplex Belt Driven Hydraulic Pump. 1 Five High 42-inch Callahan Rolls with extra •p rui° i Prayers I ever heard was that Corrugated Top Roll. of a little Negro boy who was competing in a race. He kept dropping behind and his chances seemed Taft Cotton Oil Company, Taft Texas. slim, then suddenly his lips began to move with great regularity, his legs picked up speed, and he WANTED won the race. Asked later what he was whispering Immediately, Night Superintendent in a 12 Press to himself, he said he was talking to the Lord, say­ 011 Mill, located in South Texas; good salary to the ing over and over: “Lawd, You pick ’em up, and I ’ll right m an; must be capable, sober and industrious put em down. You pick ’em up, and I ’ll put ’em and not afraid to work. Address Night Man, Box down.”— A. D. in The Sphere. 1180, Wharton, Texas.

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Tri-States Superintendents* Section

By Jane Inez Gordon MEMBERS OF TRI-STATES ASSOCIATION OFFICERS OF THE TRI-STATES COTTONSEED OIL SERVING OUR COUNTRY MILL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION C. W. Hoover, Wilson, Arkansas ...... President C. Y. Katzenmier, Leland, Mississippi...... Vice-President W . E. Hassler, Memphis, Tennessee...... Secretary-Treasurer Jane Inez Gordon, Memphis, Tenn. . . Corresponding- Secretary STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS Conway George, Memphis, Tenn.— Navy Tennessee ...... E. S. L y l e ...... Dyersburg Mississippi ...... E. W . M a r x ...... Hollandale Biffle Owen, Memphis, Tenn.— Army. Arkansas ...... Frank Harris ...... Helena Billy Ware, Memphis, Tenn.— Air Corps. South Carolina ----R. T. H erring ...... Ninety-Six Bates Wilson, Memphis, Tenn.— Navy. North Carolina .... C. E. K in g ...... Weldon Earl Smith, Memphis, Tenn.— Navy. Georgia ...... F. A. Perkins ...... A tlan ta A labam a ...... C. F. A g r e ll...... Montgomery H. E. Ayres, Knoxville, Tenn.— Navy. Louisiana ...... R. D. M iller ...... Minden Fred Richardson, Memphis, Tenn.— Army. California ...... R. D. R y a n ...... Fresno Hale Autry, Memphis, Tenn.— A ir Corps. Missouri and Illinois C. T. O ’d e n a ...... Cairo, 111. Thomas Finch, Tiptonville, Tenn.— Army. STATE PROGRAM CHAIRMEN Chas. A. Conley, Jr., Memphis, Navy. Arkansas ...... Roy C a s tillo w ...... Little Rock If you know of any other members, please Mississippi ...... B. C. L u n d y ...... Greenville Tennessee ...... Homer Barnes ...... Memphis notify us. RESEARCH COMMITTEE Cecil W am ble, C h a ir m a n ...... College Station, Texas discussed “Trend of the News.” He gave a practical J. R. Mays, J r ...... Memphis, Tenn. talk on how to read and analyze war news. “All E. H . T e n e n t...... Memphis, Tenn. news these days is under censorship,” he said, add­ BOARD OF DIRECTORS ing that this censorship was voluntary on the part W . I. T e m p le ...... Newport, Ark. of the newspapers and radio stations. “And every Cecil W a m b le ...... Greenwood, Miss. bit of information you get is subject to this cen­ W . E. H a s s le r ...... Memphis, Tenn. R. L. L o g g in s ...... Blytheville, Ark. sorship.” Roy C a s tillo w ...... Little Rock, Ark. He pointed out that this was a “war of nerves J. J. F in c h ...... Tiptonville, Tenn. and propaganda” and cautioned those present not to C. W . H o o v e r ...... W ilson, Ark. get unduly excited over what they read or hear. He MEETINGS further stated that the United States is also using October 2 ...... Greenville, Miss. propaganda as a weapon toward victory. December 4 ...... Little Rock, Ark. “It is wrong to assume we do not use propa­ F e b r u a r y ...... Memphis, Tenn. ganda. However, I ’m certain ours is of a higher and more intelligent type,” he stated. “Of course, TRI-STATES WARTIME MEETING ATTRACTS the papers cannot guarantee the accuracy of every­ thing released by the War Department, but you may LARGE ATTENDANCE rest assured it is not made up out of the whole About 300 attended the “wartime business meet­ cloth.” ing” of the Tri-States Cottonseed Oil Mill Superin­ “Your greatest contribution to your country can tendents Association in Memphis, May 20-21, held be to take these stories with a generous portion of at the Claridge Hotel. J. J. Finch, president, pre­ salt,” Mr. Teague said forcefully. “As an example sided- Captain J. P. Dickinson was general chair­ of agent-inspired stories, I offer the one that we man. will have no presidential elections during the war. In his annual address, the president said the Certainly we will have a presidential election in business sessions had been cut to a minimum, with 1944. Already the campaign is under way. Why, we the u'sual happy social activities of conventions of cannot avoid our elections, and we do not want to.” the past little more than a memory and a pleasant Dr. Simon Williams, head of the technical re­ hope for the future, when victory and peace are ours. search for the National Cotton Council and for­ “Difficulty tests the measure of your loyalty to our merly head of the Textile Research Division of organization. Membership in the association is a Texas, made an impressive and forceful address, poor thing, unworthy of the name, if it functions appealing to the superintendents not to merely let only when life is easy,” he said. “You who are this meeting be one from which a good time will present are showing your loyalty.” be taken, as the times are much too serious for that. Mr. Finch expressed appreciation to all his of­ “Cotton is America’s No. 1 war crop. But, not­ ficers and committees during the year, who func­ withstanding, you superintendents need a plan of tioned through difficulty, and the committees who action for future survival,” he said. “Cotton will be served for the present meeting. Especially did he one of the most difficult problems of the peace praise the contributors who responded so e-ener- table.” ously. “The Asiatic cotton that used to be imported Guest speaker for the opening day was W. C. has stopped altogether. Intensive research is being Teague, editorial writer, Commercial Appeal, who done for a substitute, with particular attention to June, 1943 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 21

substitute for milk filters, filters for steel in blood “Please have this specific thought in mind, that transfusions, and in certain motor installations.” you maintain an aggressive attitude toward research “Cotton seed is not receiving- its proper atten­ and pioneer the way for industrial co-operation tion in research,” Dr. Williams pointed out. “Cotton throughout the Tri-States,” he said. is now grown for its lint, which is very serious for Election of Officers you who use cotton’s by-products. We face the fact of acreage being cut tremendously, so your seed Election of officers was held, committees were source is cut.” appointed, and five new members were accepted “In the future, the day of the small cotton farmer into the association. The new members are: George is out. In the West I have seen cotton grown as big L. Harrington, Rauch Company, Memphis; Tyson business. Frequently, one ranch will have a million Greer, Trenton Cotton Oil Company, Trenton, Tenn. ; dollars’ worth of machinery. These ranches are set B. F. Haynie, Nevada Cotton Oil Company, Pres­ up to produce cotton at 5 cents a pound profitably, cott, Ark.; T. C. Wamble, Wamble Machine Shop, Kosciusko, Miss., and J. A. Apple, Delta Products if necessary,” he continued. Company, Wilson, Ark. A story on the new officers “What are we doing to make cotton a primary appears elsewhere in this issue. crop?” he asked. “What are you doing to make it grown for seed? Very little is being done!” Visitors Dr. Williams suggested a concrete plan of action, W. H. Baskerville, Director of Research, Uni­ all individual small efforts pooled into a large one. versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn., was a visitor He cited the following quantities of cotton tex­ to the meeting, and made a short talk on the re­ tiles now being consumed by the Quartermaster search that is being undertaken at the university. Department of the United States Army: 19,000,000 R. D. (Bob) Ryan, Producers Cotton Oil Company, pairs of cotton drawers, 3,600,000 barracks bags, Fresno, Cal., also spoke to the group during the 18,000,000 mercerized socks, 14,000,000 handker­ business sessions. chiefs, 6,200,000 cotton leggins. Charter Members Present “The government requires cotton fabrics at a rate of 120 yards per man, per year,” he said. He There were four charter members of the Tri- also said that the cotton textile industry is now 65 States Superintendents Association present: G. G. Richardson, Humphrey-Godwin Company, Mem­ per cent devoted to war orders. phis; A. P. Holly, V. D. Anderson Company; Bob Second Day Address Ryan, Fresno, California, and Captain J. P. Dick­ John Leahy, director of research for the Texas inson, DeSoto Oil Company, Memphis. institutions, College Station, Texas, was the princi­ pal speaker on the second day of the meeting. He opened his address by discussing and reviewing things done by the Tri-States Association, and G. W O RTH EN AGEE, President E. R. BARROW , Secretary and Treas. praised the research developments in the past ten years. He spoke of the beginning of research in­ BARROW-AGEE LABORATORIES stituted in Memphis by the association. INCORPORATED “You superintendents must be committed to the interest of cotton and keep the research in channels ANALYTICAL AND CONSULTING CHEMISTS of cotton and its by-products,” he said. “While we AND ENGINEERS must commit ourselves to research toward the war effort, we must also remember that cotton is also a MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE peacetime commodity, so we must keep two kinds of research going, and also pay much attention to Main Office and Laboratories: Memphis, Tenn.. competition with synthetic fibers.” He stated that heretofore cotton seed was the Laboratories: only oil seed produced in the United States. Now Memphis, Tenn. Shreveport, La. Jackson, Miss. we have competition, so we must develop new ways Cairo, III. Leland, Miss. peculiar to cotton seed.

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PATRON IZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 22 OIL MILL GAZETTEER June, I943 C. W. HOOVER NAMED PRESIDENT CAPTAIN DICKINSON RECEIVES OF TRI-STATES SINGULAR HONOR C. W. Hoover, Delta Products Company, Wilson, Ark., was named president of the Tri-States Super­ intendents Association at their wartime meeting in Memphis, May 20-21, to succeed J. J. Finch, Lake County Oil Mill, Tiptonville, Tenn. C. Y. Katzenmier, superintendent Leland Oil Works, Leland, Miss., was elected vice-president. Mr. Katzenmier is a member of long standing and has served on many committees. W. E. Hassler, superintendent Buckeye Cotton Oil Company, Hollywood plant, Memphis, was re­ named secretary-treasurer, and Jane Inez Gordon, of the Woodson-Tenent Laboratories, Memphis, cor­ responding secretary. The newly elected president appointed the fol­ lowing state program chairmen: Roy Castillow, Southern Cotton Oil Co., Little Rock, Ark.; B. C. Lundy, Greenville Oil Works, Greenville, Miss., and Homer Barnes, Memphis Cotton Oil Mill, Memphis. Research committee: Cecil Wamble, College Sta­ tion, Texas, chairman; J. R. Mays, Jr., Barrow- Agee Laboratories, Memphis, and E. H. Tenent, Woodson-Tenent Laboratories, Memphis. CAPT. J. P. DICKSON THREE MEETINGS DURING YEAR FOR The first distinction given an oil mill superin­ TRI-STATES tendent and a member of the Tri-States Association At the annual “wartime meeting” in Memphis, at the wartime meeting in Memphis, was bestowed May 20-21, it was decided to hold only three meet­ upon Captain J. P. Dickinson, superintendent of the ings during this war year. The first meeting will be DeSoto Oil Mill, Memphis— that of life membership held October 2, Greenville, Miss.; B. C. Lundy, of in the organization, of which he is a charter mem­ the Greenville Oil Works, Greenville, Miss., will be ber. He was one of the organizers in 1916, when the chairman. The next meeting will be held December association was known as the Memphis Oil Mill 4, in Little Rock, Ark., Roy Castillow, chairman, Superintendents Association. The honor was given and the February meeting in Memphis, Homer him in appreciation of his long term of service. #£ Barnes, chairman. has served in every official capacity, and as con­ There is a possibility of a fish-fry and meeting vention chairman every year. at Moon Lake, Miss., in July, but the members will be notified by mail. With the new year of 1943-44, it is the first time in the history of the organization that Captain Dickinson has not held an office of some kind. It was his wish and desire that others take the wheel The Fort Worth Laboratories and steer the course, and let him be just a member Consulting Analytical Chemists and this year, but he will continue to assist with any Chemical Engineers activity of the organization. Through the years, his Chemistry applied to all phases of manu­ personality has been a stabilizing and inspiring facturing. Cottonseed products, fuel, force in the organization. water and feeds our specialty. F. B. PORTER, B.S., Ch.E., President Captain Dickinson is the only charter member R. H. FASH, B.S., Vice-President who is an active oil mill superintendent, and has 828 Vi Monroe Street Fort Worth, Texas held an executive office in the association every year in the 27 years since its organization. D»K OIL MILL MACHINERY Hydraulic Presses Hydraulic Pumps Meats Rolls Accumulators Stack Cookers Knife Hullers Pressure Cookers Mote Reclaimers Drain Pumps Hull Packers Hydraulic Formers Cracked Cake Feeders June, 1943 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 23

ENTERTAINMENT CHAIRMAN FROM C. W. HOOVER Fellow Members and Friends: One of the duties of the president of the associa­ tion is to write a letter each month for the Gazetteer. I believe this is about the worst punishment that can be imposed on a man, but I shall do my best to have something for each issue if you readers will just bear with me. We have just completed a very successful and instructive two-day meeting. Our program chair­ man, Mr. W. E. HassJer, worked up a very inter­ esting and instructive program for us. I wish to extend my thanks and appreciation for each of those taking part. Owing to conditions, we went on record as in favor of three regular meetings this year instead of bi-monthly meetings as were held last year. I extend an invitation to all oil mill and supply men to join us at these meetings. You will find us open to any suggestions you have for the good of the industry. I have a fine group of men elected to the various offices which will serve with me this year, and we M. M. MASSON will appreciate your co-operation to make this a very successful year for our association. M. M. Masson, Tri-States Armature & Electrical With kindest regards, I am, yours truly, Works, Memphis, Tenn., was chairman of hotel ar­ C. W. HOOVER. rangements for the entertainment of the guests and members of the Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Association at their “wartime meeting-” in Mem­ BOB RYAN ATTENDS ANNUAL MEETING phis, May 20-21. A dinner-dance on the first night Much to the surprise of his many friends in the and a buffet luncheon on the second day were fea­ Tri-States Superintendents Association, R. D. Ryan, tured. At the luncheon, three war bonds were given known as Bob, with his charming wife, made the to the lucky ladies present. The winners were: Mrs. long and difficult trip from Fresno, California, to W. S. Galloway, whose husband is associate member meet again with the association that he has long with the Gulf Refining Co.; Mrs. H. G. Ryals, a been interested in. Bob has served in many official visitor from Hopkinsville, Ky., and Mrs. E. D. capacities, including the presidency, and has fol­ Bouldin, daughter-in-law of the W ill Wares, of the lowed closely all the organization’s activities since Southern Cotton Oil Co., Memphis. he has been in the West. He is superintendent of the Producers Cotton Oil Company, of Fresno. A singular honor was given to Mr. Ryan by the HOVAS IS SUPERINTENDENT AT CHICKASAW V. D. Anderson Company, Cleveland, Ohio, in the J. C. Hovas is now superintendent of the Chick­ Expeller Press,” house organ of the company, by asaw Oil Mill., Memphis. E. R. Lyle, former superin­ featuring a 14-page account of the mill, with most tendent of the plant, has retired in order to be with interesting pictures, taking the readers through the his wife who is seriously ill. Mrs. Lyle is a member mill. The mill maintains a large feeding yard where of the Women’s Auxiliary to the Tri-States Superin­ from 3,000 to 5,000 head of cattle are in the pens tendents Association. The Chickasaw mill is also the year around. Bob had had considerable experi­ doing extensive improvements, and will soon have ence with cotton seed before going to California, but a large new office on the grounds adjoining the plant, his only contact with flaxseed was whenever he got also a dust control system is being installed. something in his eye around the mill, he put a flax­ seed in it to work out the particle of foreign matter He always carried a little bag of flaxseed with him, BLESSED EVENT which he purchased from a drug store. Now flax­ I. S. Wingfield, Riverside Oil Mill, Marks, Miss., seed means a great deal more! In the “Expeller is passing out cigars and wearing a larger hat; in Press,” they quote about Bob: “Mr. Ryan had de­ fact, no hat at all. His son, 6 pounds 10 ounces, was veloped the operation of the mill’s typical cottonseed born May 6 at the Baptist Hospital in Memphis. milling equipment to the highest standards in the Mrs. Wingfield is doing nicely, and named their first industry on the Pacific Coast; hence his assistance child after her husband, and will call him Zeke. and ideas incorporated into the new ‘pace setting ELECTRICAL REPAIR WORK Rewinding, Repairing, Rebuilding Dynamos, Motors and Linter Magnets New and Used Motors, Flexible Couplings, Chain and V-Belt Drives Houston Armature Works Phone Preston 2174 — Day and Night S e r v i c e ______2301 Prairie Avenue, Houston, Texas

PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 24 OIL MILL GAZETTEER June, 1943 plant’ were of tremendous importance. Mr. Ryan Orgill Bros. & Company, Memphis, Tenn. took up with the new cooker-expeller method of Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Company, Memphis, Tenn crushing where he left off with the old style equip­ Pitts, W. C., & Son, Memphis, Tenn. ment.” Pyrene Manufacturing Company, Atlanta, Ga. The mill crushes both flaxseed and cotton seed. Quaker Rubber Corp., Philadelphia, Pa. The cotton seed from the San Joaquin Valley is seed Quigley Company, New York, N. Y. that yields from 345 to 360 pounds of oil to the ton. Rauch Company, Memphis, Tenn. Large tonnages of both flaxseed and cotton seed are Republic Rubber Division, Youngstown, Pa. grown in the San Joaquin Valley. Riechman-Crosby Company, Memphis, Tenn. Safety Belt Lacer Company, Toledo, Ohio. Screw Conveyor Corp., Hammond, Ind. REFUND TO BE MADE TO CONTRIBUTORS Shelby Electric Company, Memphis, Tenn. Checks are being mailed out to the machinery SKF Industries, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. men and supply houses who so generously con­ Southern Coal Company, Inc., Memphis, Tenn. tributed to the annual wartime meeting in Memphis Southern Supply Company, Jackson, Tenn. May 20 and 21. Approximately $450 will be re­ Southwestern Sup. & Mch. Wks., Oklahoma City, funded. Contributions were $1650. When solicita­ Tennessee Belting Company, Memphis, Tenn. tion was made, the letter stated that all money Tobias Bag Company, Memphis, Tenn. above the expenses for the meeting would be re­ Tri-States Armature & Elec. Works, Memphis. funded. Chairman of the finance committee was West Kentucky Coal Company, Memphis, Tenn. Richard Alcott, Riechman-Crosby Company, Mem­ Wood, A. A., & Sons Co., Atlanta, Ga. phis, and his committee consisted of all the Mem­ Woodson-Tenent Laboratories, Inc., Memphis. phis mill supply houses, machinery firms as well as the several in Little Rock, Ark., and other points. PIDGEON-THOMAS AWARDED Those who contributed were: ARMY-NAVY “E” Akron Belting Company, Akron, Ohio. Arkansas Foundry Company, Little Rock, Ark. Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Company, Memphis, Alexander Bros., Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. Tenn., have been awarded the Army-Navy “E” flag Arkansas Power & Light Co., Pine Bluff, Ark. for excellence of performance in filling Navy pro­ Atlanta Belting Company, Atlanta, Georgia. duction contract, at a colorful ceremony at their of­ Barrow-Agee Laboratories, Inc., Memphis, Tenn. fice, with over 300 attending. Mayor Walter Chand­ Bauer Bros. Company, Springfield, Ohio. ler was chairman of ceremonies. Bemis Bros. Bag Company, Peoria, 111. Posting of the colors was done by the “Color Boardman Company, Oklahoma City, Okla. Guard,” Naval Training Station, and presentation Bosworth, M. M., Company, Memphis, Tenn. by Captain Frank Liftin, U. S. Navy (retired). Bowers, Milton, Welding Co., Memphis, Tenn. Raising of the pennant was by the “color guard.” Bluff City Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. Acceptance of the award by Phil Pidgeon, president. Brooks Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Presentation of employees “E ” pin by Brigadier Buckeye Iron & Brass Works, Dayton, Ohio. General W. A. Danielson, Army Depot. Acceptance Butters Manufacturing Company, Atlanta, Ga. for employees, John C. Patzsch, plant superintend­ Carver Cotton Gin Company, Memphis, Tenn. ent. Many other officers from the army and navy Chain Belt Company, Milwaukee, Wis. were present. At the close of the ceremonies, the Clipper Belt Lacer Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Navy band played “America.” The contract was Continental Gin Company, Birmingham, Ala. finished eight months ahead of schedule! Dayton Rubber Mfg. Co., Dayton, Ohio. Diamond Chain & Mfg. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Dilworth, J. E., & Company, Memphis, Tenn. BUFF CHISOLM, JR., R EC EIV E S PROMOTION Dodge Mfg. Corp., Mishawaka, Ind. Buff Chisolm, Jr., who was formerly assistant Ellis, William C., & Son, Memphis, Tenn. superintendent of the Trenton Cotton Oil Company, Fafnir Bearing Company, New Britain, Conn. Trenton, Tenn., has received a promotion to First Fagan Electric Company, Little Rock, Ark. Lieutenant in the Army. He is now at Fort Benning, Fiske Bros. Refinery Company, Newark, N. J. Ga., after six months in the parachute division in Fort Worth Steel & Mchy. Co., Fort Worth. South America. French Oil Mill Machinery Co., Piqua, Ohio. Ed Chisolm is serving with the armed forces in Garlock Packing Co., Birmingham, Ala. Alaska, in the Survey Division. Both of these men Graton & Knight Co., Worcester, Mass. are sons of Buff Chisolm, superintendent Trenton Gulf Refining Company, New Orleans, La. Hays Supply Company, Memphis, Tenn. Cotton Oil Company, Trenton, Tenn. Heckle, J. D., & Company, Memphis, Tenn. Hollis & Company, Little Rock, Ark. R. H. PATTERSON HAS SONS IN SERVICE Industrial Supplies, Inc., Memphis, Tenn. Probably R. H. Patterson, manager, Trenton Jordan, J. P., Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. Cotton Oil Company, Trenton, Tenn.. has the record Kellogg, E. H., & Company, New York, N. Y. Keystone Lubricating Co., Philadelphia, Pa. in the industry for sons in the army. Three of his Lewis Supply Company, Memphis, Tenn. sons are now in service and the fourth is expected Link-Belt Company, St. Louis, Mo. to leave at any time. Robert is in the air corps and Manhattan Rubber Mfg. Div., Birmingham, Ala. was employed at the mill before going into service. Memphis Machine Works, Memphis, Tenn. Russell is in the army and Frank in the air corps. Mississippi Power & Light Co., Jackson, Miss. Reggy, who is now at the Buckeye Cotton Oil Com­ Muskogee Iron Works, Muskogee, Okla. pany, Memphis, is expected to go very soon. June, 1943 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 25

h a r r y a l c o t t r e c e i v e s c o m m is s io n matured seed such as would not deteriorate during Harry Alcott, son of Richard Alcott, vice-presi- the long period of transport. cient and general manager, Riechman-Crosby Com­ The primitive method of oil expression has been pany, Memphis, Tenn., has received his commission with the ghani. Some of the readers of the Gazetteer as Lieutenant and wings in the A ir Corps at a base who may have visited India will not have failed to in Mississippi. He is now stationed at Alpena Air see the ghanis in a modern mechanized form. This Base, Alpena, Michigan. contraption is similar to an edge-runner mill. In its native form it consists of a large wooden pan with a heavy inclined pestle rotated by a bullock. The THE INDIAN VEGETABLE OIL INDUSTRY semi-crushed seed is pressed by the pestle against the walls of the pan and the liberated oil is caught By J. G. KANE, in a pit below the pan. In the modern version, the Department of Chemical Technology, ghani is made of iron and it is the pan that is ro­ University of Bombay, Bombay, India. tated. The native ghani still holds its own in villages. The following picture of the Indian oil industry, Sesame and safflower seed are usually crushed in which I have attempted to give at the suggestion ghanis. The ghani-cake contains as much as 15 per of Mr. Wilson, relates only to pre-war conditions. cent of oil, but it fetches a good price, being valued The technical institution with which I am connected as food for milch cattle. Next to the ghani are the has always had constant contact with the industrial hydraulic presses of various types and the expellers, activity in and around Bombay, and Bombay being mostly of the Anderson or the Krupp type. Almost a center of cotton and oil industries, we had many every mill has the preliminary cleaning, crushing, occasions to visit the factories, discuss their prob­ rolling and cooking equipment. Cotton seed and lems and try to advise them. It was also interesting much of the castor seed are treated in hydraulic to study the progress made by other countries, and presses, the latter for the prepartion of the pharma­ I was especially fascinated by the continuous indus­ ceutical cold-drawn castor oil. But expellers are trial development of this country. Little then I be­ used for almost all the other seeds. The oil obtained lieve that I would get an appointment to be in the may be filtered, but it is much more customary to States. let it settle for several days before it is put into tins I have been in the States for more than two years or drums. and, thanks to the kindness of many persons and Special mention may be made of the peculiar firms, I have been able to observe the processing of position of cotton seed. In spite of the fact that two oilseed and oils and to get an idea of the trend of million tons of seed are available every year, the this particular industry. It it not intended here to amount crushed has been very small. The whole seed compare the industries of the two countries, since has been fed to the milch cattle over centuries with­ the industrial conditions in the two are poles apart. out any apparent poisoning effect. The ready avail­ The small holdings of the farmers, their poverty ability of so many other edible oils in large quan­ and indebtedness, the low purchasing power of the tities and the special effort required to turn the populace, dependence on rain and outside competi­ cottonseed oil into an agreeable product must have tion, have always hampered the industrial progress detracted people from its use. of the country. But there is no cause for despair, The expeller cake contains about 6 per cent oil. because the agricultural and mineral resources of As yet, it is not much favored for the milch cattle. both the countries are equally large and varied, and There is not enough demand for it abroad, and it is what has been achieved in one can certainly be done not unusual to see heaps of cake lying around a in the other; only it is a question of time and com­ mill. From the time that sugar manufacture in India plete reorganization. reached its present enormous scale, the cake has Oilseed form a part of the vast agricultural re­ been used as a manure for sugar cane. Plans were sources of which India has plenty. The cereals and under way to prepare a distemper from the cake. food grains such as rice, wheat, maize, millets and The husk and shells are burnt in the boilers. pulses; the abundant sugar cane crop, which has The vegetable oils are utilized for many pur­ made India more than self-sufficient in sugar; the poses, the largest portion being consumed as salad cotton; the jute which supplies the United Nations oils. Paints, varnishes and soaps consume a good with one of the essentials in these times; tea, coffee deal. Not an inconsiderable portion is consumed as and the untapped and unused forest resources— illuminants and in the preparation of native medi­ run into billions of pounds. cines and hair-oils. The following table gives the chief oil-bearing Much of the oil mill machinery and equipment seeds with their average annual productions, the has come from England or Germany, and various extent of their export and the particular province firms in these countries have been sending to India in India in which they are grown in abundance. The a good many specialists whose practice it has been export trade in the seeds has never been steady, to survey the possibilities of starting new mills and and the prices have always been governed by the to offer advice upon the organization of the oil in­ demand in European countries, especially in Eng­ dustry. However, any attempt to put the industry land, France, and Germany. Thus, at the beginning on an organized basis failed, for many reasons. The of this century, or even before, India almost held Indian customer was not very keen to have a a monopoly in peanuts and flaxseed. When, how­ product other than what he had been using. He had ever, other sources for these seeds were sought by tests of his own regarding color, odor and flavor, the importing countries, the exports sometimes de­ so that he looked with suspicion on the new product clined to such an extent that prices of the seeds were from the mills and much more so on the refined •ess than half the normal prices. The decrease in variety. I recollect the initial experiences of an oil export has been attributed partly to the inability of refiner who put on the market his tasteless, odorless the Indian farmer to supply an unbroken and well- and colorless cocoanut oil. People suspected it to be Page 26 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Tune, I943 some mineral oil. Another reason has been the slow of soap per capita is nothing if it is compared with realization on the part of the oil millers themselves the figure of 25 pounds given for the United States. of the value of uniform and dependable quality, of But the use of soap is bound to increase, and with sanitary working conditions and of scientific con­ the recent establishment of two very large alkali trol. factories in India, Indian soap manufacture is bound It may be mentioned here that the various salad to benefit. oils used in India are mostly unrefined, undefiltered All the three processes of soap manufacture are oils. They do not find much market as bland oils, used, the largest output being from the cold and but are sold on the merits of their peculiar flavor, semi-boiled processes. The plant and equipment in odor and color. The salad oils include oils of lin­ most of the soap works is Indian made. Four of the seed, mustard, cocoanut, peanut, safflower and ses­ larger factories.recover glycerine from the soap lye, ame. The last one is prized like olive oil is in this and they have complete equipment for the manufac­ country. The present large oil refineries owe their ture of pharmaceutical glycerine, their total capacity existence to a sudden boom in the hydrogenation being about ten tons per day. The oils that go into industry. Indians rarely use butter as such. Butter soap manufacture are peanut, cocoanut and mowrah. will not keep in a hot climate, and refrigeration is a Linseed ard safflower oils are the main drying oils luxury which is not within the reach of the ma­ used in paints and varnishes in various blown and jority. boiled forms. The butter fat obtained from it after boiling off These are the broad uses of the vegetable oils in all the water crystallizes into fine grains which have India. In spite of the large production, the industry a peculiar color and flavor, depending upon the kind needs organization and expansion; and where else and the habitat of the cattle. This is called “ghi.” can we profitably turn but to this country for learn­ There may be just a tinge of red, green or yellow, ing the methods of achieving these? An efficient and the consistency may range from a stiff mass seed-crushing industry alone ensures efficient utili­ to a thin paste in which granules are floating. Each zation of the oil and the by-products. Start with a province has its own preference. A good many In­ bad seed and its effects will very probably be felt dians, because of religious tenets, will not eat any in the later processing. Quality cannot be sacrificed animal fat obtained from a slaughter house. In fact, to quantity. The responsibility of the Indian farmer this attitude extends to the use of cloth that has and the seed crusher lies in providing good raw ma­ been sized with animal tallow and to that of soap* terial. On the other hand, the Indian chemist and that contains animal fats. Pure “ghi” has always the chemical engineer have so much to learn from been more expensive than oil, almost three times as the new American developments in the chemistry much; but no matter its cost, an Indian must have and technology of oils. On my part, I am indebted to it in his menu. In this daily necessity, the unscrupul­ many who showed me great consideration and pro­ ous merchant saw his opportunity, and when the vided all the facilities possible under the existing hydrogenated oil industry came to be firmly estab­ conditions. That has been a great encouragement to lished in continental Europe, enormous quantities of me, and I am looking forward to a new era when the hardened product came to be imported into the Indian oil industry will have been established on India. A large portion of this was fish oil. This hard a sound basis to the mutual advantage of India and fat was heated with some peanut oil and a little that of the States. “ghi” and the mixture, when cooled, had all the ap­ pearance of “ghi.” This adulteration continued Fatty Oil Resources of India India’s Share in World Trade nearly up to the year 1930, when the various mu­ Annual Crop Exports nicipalities and the provincial governments took (Thousand (Thousand long tons) long tons) Per Cent Major Producing Area drastic steps against the offending merchants. At­ Madras, Bombay tempts to start hydrogenation industry between the Peanuts ...... 2,500 511 29 Cotton 2,000 0.6 1 Bombay, Punjab, years of 1920 and 1925 were not successful. It was Madras, Central only by the year of 1932 that two factories came Provinces to be established in Bombay, one an English con­ Copra ...... 1,400 M adras cern and the other a German-Dutch combine. Rape and 1,000 40 36 United Provinces, M ustard Bengal, Punjab The hydrogenated product as put on the market Sesame . 500 4 3 United Provinces, by the above factories had a special appeal to the Madras, Bengal Indian public. There was no religious objection, as Flax 400 238 13 Central Provinces, only Indian vegetable oils were used. It was quite United Provinces cheap, too. Besides, the two firms took pains to pro­ Castor ... 125 69 100 Hyderabad, Madras duce a substance, by skillful blending and crystal­ Mowrah 100 Bengal, Central India, lization, which was quite similar to “ghi” in smell (illipe) Central Provinces (because of the addition of a butter aroma) and in N iger ...... 1.6 100 Central Provinces, appearance. The customer did not mind the slight Bom bay K ardi ...... Central Provinces, difference in taste, because of the low prices, and Bom bay hence the new product has become popular as “vege­ (safflower) table ghi.” To date, there are a dozen factories pro­ viding more than 300 tons of vegetable ghi per day. A M E R IC A ’S NO. 1 W AR CROP— COTTON Soap factories are located all over the country. Cotton, second only to steel as America s There are about one thousand of these, producing weapon of war, is meeting more vital needs o 75,000 tons of soap per year. The imports have been than any other crop. , , T x-nT,„i decreasing fast, the recent figure being about 8,000 This was the story told today by the IN a tons per annum. Of course, the total consumption Cotton Council in a graphic booklet, “ America June, 1943 OIL MILL GAZETTEER Page 27

1 War Crop,” which pointed out that despite cot­ as “most critical” by the War Production Board. ton’s strategic importance as food, feed and fighting Largest of all war uses for cotton linters is equipment, peacetime thinking still is being applied smokeless powder. One bale of linters, the Council to the crop. shows, will provide smokeless powder for 20,440 “America’s 1943 war crop goals demand in­ rounds of machine gun ammunition, 2,737 rounds creased quantities of food, feed and fiber,” the Coun­ of pom-pom ammunition, 100,000 rounds of rifle cil declared, “and cotton is America’s only crop ammunition, or 85 rounds of heavy tank ammuni­ which produces all three.” tion. But far from being confined to production of As proof of this statement, the booklet cited that smokeless powder, cotton linters also are an integral each 1,400 pounds of cotton produce: 500 pounds of part of war equipment which varies from non- fiber for military, lend-lease, priority, and essential breakable glasses to the pyroxlin coating for rain­ civilian needs; 140 pounds of high grade vegetable coats, and from the glass-like windows and noses oil for food; 400 pounds of protein meal and cake of bombers and fighting planes to synthetic yarns for livestock; 240 pounds of hulls for livestock and fabrics. Also from linters come cargo and flare roughage and chemical use; and 81 pounds of linters chutes, high-tenacity rayon, X-ray and photographic for smokeless powder, plastics and numerous other film, and plastic replacements for many metal parts. essential products. As fiber, cotton’s first use is for the armed forces. Taking up cotton’s importance as food, the Coun­ Every fighting man uses cotton every day. With al­ cil declared that cotton is America’s largest source most a third less spindles than during the first of vegetable oil, and that virtually 100 per cent of World War, cotton today is turning out nearly twice the 1,442,495,000 pounds of cottonseed oil produced as much goods, and of this all-time peak production, in 1942 will be consumed in the form of basic food more than 70 per cent of all United States cotton products. Representing 48 per cent of the nation's fabrics in production or on order are for priority total production of edible vegetable oils last year, goods. With today’s demands of priority fabrics the 1942 cotton crop provided enough oil to furnish alone far exceeding cotton’s highest peacetime pro­ every man, woman and child in the nation 10 pounds duction, the industry is providing fabrics for land, of food fat. sea and air forces; industrial fabrics for war plants; Reducing this production of vegetable oil to other fabrics for America’s allies through lend-lease; fab­ terms, the Council declared that the 1942 cotton rics for bags, work clothes and hospitals; and still crop alone produced fat sufficient to fill the total re­ is meeting the essential clothing requirements of quirements of the army, navy and 18,000,000 civil­ 130,000,000 civilians. ians. As shortening, it was equivalent to all cooking To further emphasize cotton’s value to the armed fats for an army of 7,500,000 men, a navy of 1,500,- forces, the booklet reproduces two official cartoons 000 men, plus 42,000,000 civilians. As margarine, it from the Quartermaster Corps showing a variety was sufficient to supply all table fats for an army of military uses of cotton. Pointing out that 11,000 and navy of the same size, plus 72,000,000 civilians. cotton items appear on procurement lists of the Quartermaster Corps, ranging from shorts to ski Cotton’s importance as a feed crop was shown suits and from mosquito bars to the heaviest tar­ by the fact that in 1942 approximately 32 per cent paulins, the Council adds that 120 yards of cotton of the nation’s total production of protein feed meals cloth are required for every soldier every year. came from cotton seed. Actual production of protein feed meals from cotton last year amounted to 2,050,- “Cotton actually is two crops,” the booklet con­ 000 tons. The significance of this phase of cotton’s cludes. “Cotton is a fiber crop supplying America’s contribution to the war effort is emphasized by the armed forces and its allies with thousands of essen­ fact that farmers have been asked to produce 57 tial textile products. Cotton is a food, feed and billion quarts of milk and 11 billion pounds of beef chemical crop supplying oil for America’s table, in 1948—a task that will be impossible without ade­ meal and hulls for livestock which produces Amer­ quate protein feeds. ica’s meat and milk, and linters for the war products of chemistry. Breaking down cotton’s feed production in 1942, “No other crop is as versatile as cotton. No other the booklet shows that last year’s crop yielded es­ crop produces in quantity or in number as many sential proteins for 6,829,000 dairy cows producing essential and vital war commodities. Cotton meets 14,000,000,000 quarts of milk, or essential proteins more vital war needs than any other crop.” for fattening 11,000,000 beef cattle producing two billion pounds of beef. In addition, the crop yielded a million tons of cottonseed hulls for roughage. As LESS COTTON OR MORE COTTON? protein, the 1942 cotton crop was equivalent of more than 200,000,000 bushels of corn and other Agricultural sections of the Midwest have an grains. As roughage for fattening beef cattle, it was intense personal interest in the continued ability the equivalent of 2,000,000 tons of corn silage or of the cotton states to find a market for their cot­ 2,500,000 tons of sorghum silage. ton, Ed Lipscomb, Director of the National Cotton The Council’s story of cotton’s importance as Council’s Division of Industry and Consumer Serv­ fighting equipment begins with linters and continues ice, told members of the Advertising Club of Des through to the many strategic uses of cotton fiber Moines, Iowa, recently. by the armed forces. Pointing out that linters are Discussing the importance of cotton to the state the purest source of alpha-cellulose— chemical base of Iowa specifically, Mr. Limpscomb pointed out that of many war products— the booklet declares that as cotton states are forced away from cotton through linters have been classified as “strategic material” lack of consumption of its products, they simultane­ of war by the Army since 1940, and today are rated ously are forced into the production of crops which Page 28 OIL MILL GAZETTEER June, I943 are competitive with those grown in the Midwest. “As such developments occur in the cotton states He reminded also that since cotton supports ap­ Iowa is faced with a situation which is double-bar­ proximately four times as many people per acre as relled. In the first place, she stands to lose an im' the average field crop, intense cultivation of these portant customer. There is often more than fancy or competitive crops would be a necessary accom­ fiction to the charge that a cotton man will plant paniment of such conversion. cotton right up to his front doorstep and then spend Declaring that cotton’s problem today is one of the money he gets for his crop to buy the bacon production rather than consumption, Mr. Lipscomb and pork chops he should raise for himself. In the said that with the end of the war, cotton’s problem second place, and in addition to losing an important again will become one of keeping 24 million acres customer, Iowa stands to gain a competitor for her and 11 million people employed in the production agricultural markets outside the cotton belt.” and processing of cotton and its products. Outlining efforts of the Council to build greater “The usual offhand answer to that problem is interest in and appreciation for the part cotton is quite simple. In consists of a rather condescending playing in the nation’s war effort, Mr. Lipscomb suggestion that it is high time the cotton belt quit said : “Thus it is that cotton is endeavoring sincerely depending on cotton for a living and started grow­ and earnestly to oppose a trend which has been ing other things. And that, I submit, places a sub­ moving toward the disruption of its own agricul­ stantial portion of the weight of the cotton problem tural economy, and simultaneous disruption of the directly in the lap of Iowa and its sister states of agricultural economies of those sections with which the Middle West. For the measure of cotton’s suc­ unemployed cotton land is forced to compete. We be­ cess in maintaining such demand for its products speak for that effort the active co-operation of the as to keep its acreage fully employed, will be the individual citizenship of a state and section whose measure of Iowa’s relief from new agricultural com­ agricultural future is so closely linked with our petition of tremendous proportions. own.” “Already we have begun to see the first indica­ tions of the threat to both of us which is inherent to the conversion of cotton land to other agricul­ INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS tural production,” Mr. Lipscomb said. “Already we Page have seen that declines in cotton acreage, forced Akron B elting Co...... 17 either by legislation or the normal operation of the A tla n ta U tilitie s W orks ...... 21 law of supply and demand, are accompanied by in­ creases in the production of crops on which sec­ Barrow-Agee Laboratories ...... 21 tions outside the cotton belt depend. Bauer Bros. Co., The — ...... 6 “Iowa is known throughout the nation as the Briggs-W eaver M achinery Co...... -...... 19 state where the tall corn grows, and no doubt Iowa Buckeye Iron & Brass Works ...... 11 is therefore interested in the fact that last year Butler E ngineering Co...... 16 there were more acres of corn on the average cotton Butters M an ufacturing Co...... 8 farm than there were acres of cotton. Most of Iowa’s Carver Cotton Gin Co...... 13 corn is fed to hogs, and Iowa has more hogs on Cen-Tex Service Co...... 9 farms each year than any state in the Union. Iowa, Claridge Hotel ______10 no doubt, is therefore interested when the ten lead­ C ontinental G in Co...... 8 ing cotton states, in ten years, add two and one- half million to their hog population. Iowa produces Davidson-Kennedy Co...... 22 more eggs each year than any other state. As Flexible Steel Lacing Co...... 9 recently as 1930, the ten leading cotton states were F ort W orth Laboratories ...... 22 producing less than six billion eggs per year, but last Fort W orth Steel & Supply Co...... Cover 1 year they produced over nine billion, an increase French Oil M ill M achinery Co...... Cover 2 of over 50 per cent. Iowa is consistently the third or fourth among states producing milk. A few years Graton & K nig h t ...... « ago the ten leading cotton states had one condensed H elm M an ufacturing Co...... -...... ^ milk plant, two cheese plants and 99 commercial Hotel Peabody ...... ^ creameries. At the outbreak of the war they were Houston Armature Works ...... 23 operating 35 condensed milk plants, 89 cheese plants Houston B elting & Supply Co...... ^ and 232 commercial creameries. Houston Laboratories ...... ^ 0 Link-Belt Company ...... Lone Star Bag & B a g g ing Co...... ^ F B. PORTER, B.S., Ck.E., President N. G. 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