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VOLUME 32, NO. 9 WHARTON. TEXAS, MARCH, 1928 PRICE TEN CENTS

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VOLUME 32, NO. 9 WHARTON. TEXAS, MARCH, 1928 PRICE TEN CENTS President Davis Announces Convention Dates-Plans to Make Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting Most Interesting of them All

Sweetwater, Texas, March 5th, 1928 of the cooker to make some adjustments, or Mr. H. E. Wilson, Editor, measurements, it is supposed that he leaned over Oil Mill Gazetteer, the top of the cooker, and his feet slipped, which Wharton, Texas. toppled him into the large driving gear on top Dear Mr. Wilson: of the cooker, his head and shoulders passing be­ The two committees of our Association met in tween the arm of the large gear and the pinion Dallas last month, and after due consideration, shaft that drives the large gear. decided on Dallas, Texas, as the next convention Mr. Custer expired in an ambulance on the way city, and June 4th, 5th and 6th as the dates to the hospital. for the convention. Mr. Custer was born in Batavia, Ohio, and has We regret very much that the dates will con­ been a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, for the flict somewhat with the Interstate Oil Mill Su­ past twenty-two years. Besides his wife, he is perintendents Convention in Atlanta, but with survived by one daughter, Miss Marguerite Cus­ two Crushers Associations meeting in conven­ ter; father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Burton tion, and the Oil Mill Superintendents Short Custer; one brother, Elmer Custer, and four Course beginning at the A. and M. College, on sisters, Mrs. Charles Evans, Misses Della and June 12th, we could not do otherwise than make Vella Mae Custer and Mrs. Don Wooten. our date June 4th, 5th and 6th. We are hoping Pallbearers at the funeral were: Clyde D. that matters will be arranged so that any one Helm, A. C. Helm, J. Kirby Ellis, Orville J. Helm, who intended to attend both conventions will not Charles C. Cantrell and L. U. Cole. be disappointed. Mr. Custer was a leader in his profession and I will have to ask the boys to excuse this short the loss will be keenly felt by the entire industry letter, as I am now fighting an attack of old as his advice and counsel was sought by many. man Flu, and not able to write very much. I It is with the feeling of greatest sorrow that only want to say that Secretary Morris and my­ we announce the death of so good and true a self, intend to leave no stone unturned towards friend and our heartfelt sympathies are extend­ giving them the best convention we have ed the members of his family in this dark hour ever had. President Sandsberry assures us that of their bereavement. Dallas is going to do their best in the way of entertainment. Hoping to be able to give you more informa­ HOUSTON LABORATORIES

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Member of the Interstate and Texas Cotton Seed Mr. C. H. Custer, 50, vice-president and gen­ Crushers’ Ass’ns. and Referee Chemist eral superintendent of the Traders Oil Mill Com­ of the American Oil Chemists' pany, met violent death at his plant about 4 p. m. Society February 24th, 1928. 215 1-2 Main Street The accident happened when Mr. Custer climb­ HOUSTON, TEXAS ed to the top of the ladder attached to the side Page 4 O I L MILL GAZETTEER March, 1928 Secretary Morris Issues Call for Meeting-Urges Large Attendance at Dallas Convention

March 5th, 1928 The April issue of the Gazetteer will give you The Oil Mill Gazetteer, further details regarding the convention. The Wharton, Texas. Jefferson Hotel will be convention headquarters. Dear Editor Wilson: The meetings will be held on the roof garden and I guess by this time you are in receipt of the the exhibits will be just one block from the President’s Annual Call for the 34th convention hotel. Let us get busy and plan a big time in of oil mill superintendents. A fter several at­ Dallas. tempts in which, each time, we were confronted Yours for a great year for the superintendents, with previous dates, we have decided on Dallas F. P. MORRIS, Secretary as the convention city and June 4th, 5th, and 6th as the dates. All dates in May have been taken by the Crushers. The Real Leaders Commencing on June 12th, the school will start at the A. and M. College. (Continuation of Mr. Dickinson’s interesting t The first week in June is also decided on by paper begun in February.) the Atlanta boys, so we were simply up against a real proposition, and in deciding on the above would be very different; as he is the one man on dates, we do so with regret, but we have changed the job that knows what is being done, and if he our dates many times for the eastern boys and was given more consideration he would make a if possible, they should give way one time for greater effort if possible to make money for the us if they can do so without hurting their at­ company. He should know what all his costs are tendance. We did what we thought was best and what items they consist of, so if possible ho and I believe the boys will rally to our support. can cut down operation cost. There are a few Everything is beginning to take form, and the mills that take their superintendent into their convention talk has started. In talking to Pres­ confidence enough to give them the ncessary in­ ident Sandsberry a few weeks back, he advises formation but many others do not. The superin­ that this will be a great year for all who attend, tendent is a target for blame. He is continually as he has decided on a program of entertainment being shot at and naturally so, as he supervises that will surpass all previous years. the actual doing of every job. Therefore he gets I am also in receipt of an official letter from the blame, if there be any blame. Most superin­ the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, advising me tendents are dissatisfied because if they are that they were behind Sandsberry to make this called in for a conference there are very few that a great year for the superintendents. President have the courage to stand up for what he thinks Davis and the secretary are bent on giving you is right. He will say, “ Oh, well, what is the use, the most instructive program ever given the the manager will do as he likes, anyway,” and convention meeting before. This will be out to his opinions or complaints very seldom get much you in due time. I am of the opinion that this consideration. The oil mill superintendent, to will be the beginning of a greater convention, sum him up, is a man of thought and action both- especially from an educational standpoint. I am going to do my best to get in touch with every superintendent in the country with personal The Ft. Worth Laboratories letters, begging them t0 be on hand at Dallas and Consulting, A nalytical Chemists and chemi­ get more good encouragement in the oil mill cal Engineers. Chemistry applied to all phases trade than ever before. President Davis is of Manufacturing. Cotton seed products, fuel, going to give some very important views on the Water feeds our Specialty. future of the oil mill industry and his views will F. B. PORTER, B. S., Ch. E., Pres. be put into effect. 281-2 Monroe St. FT. WORTH, TEXAS ELECTRICAL REPAIR WORK Rewinding, Repairing, Rebuilding Dynamos, Motors and Linter Magnets Direct or Alternating Current Houston Armature Works ______No. 4 Preston Ave.. Houston, Texas March, 1928 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 5 ource -FOR- ft STEAM CYLINDER OIL STEAM ENGINE OIL OIL ENGINE OIL GAS ENGINE OIL —IN FACT— EVERY KIND OF LUBRICATING OIL FOR THE COTTON OIL MILL, COTTON MILL, ICE PLANT AND GIN

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His duties are to get things done and to get them as his men have sharp eyes and cannot be fooled. done correctly; he has more responsibilities than They study him and know every one of his weak any one else connected with the company. He is points. All these facts go to show that an oil on the job 24 hours per day, he is in constant mill superintendent should be treated with the contact with the plant and the men under him. greatest possible consideration by his firm. Yet, wonderful to relate, he gets less considera­ Everything possible should be done to make a tion and compensation than anyone else compared superintendent loyal and contented as a disloyal to what he does. Then another thing about the superintendent obstructs improvements and co­ superintendent’s position. There is practically operation which must exist for any business to no promotion. Once a superintendent, you can­ succeed. The one best rule for the superintend­ not get any further; there seems to be a barrier ent is WHEN IN DOUBT, PUT THE COMPANY which very few of our number are able to cross. FIRST. A superintendent cannot do this unless Yet, from a standpoint of the owners and stock­ he is appreciated and treated as one who has a holders, it might be very profitable to promote most difficult and responsible job. some of them, when found to be competent. We I hope that all of the oil mill papers will print have some men among our members that are col­ this article for the good of a cause which I feel lege men and many others that are equal to col­ is a worthy one. There certainly should be some lege men because they have applied themselves plans worked out by which the present condi­ and have taken courses in business management tions of the cottonseed oil industry can be rem­ and other lines that make them equal in every edied and put on a real business basis. Some one way to a college man with the possible exception is to blame; if it is the mill superintendent, then of looks, and we fully realize that a man or they ought to all get out of the game and try woman either cannot always be judged by their some other fields of endeavor. looks, for one may have a captivating personality Wishing you one and all a happy and prosper­ and manners but on the other side be as black as ous New Year. night; while the other may have a rough ex­ J. P. DICKINSON, President, terior but a good true heart within. I am not Tri-States Oil Mill Supts. Assn. casting any stones but the man that gets the least consideration in the oil mill business is the HOW TO KEEP LINTERS FROM EMPTINESS superintendent. We, in our organizations, seek to elevate the character of our members as well My Dear Superintendents: as to improve his efficiency and usefulness to his You have not heard from me in some time, so company. There are a great many other traits decided to let you know I am still alive. I have of the oil mill superintendent. He must be able tried out an idea this season to keep linters from to read technical data, have sufficient imagin­ running empty and it has worked to my entire ation to see the work in its finished state clearly satisfaction. Thinking you might want to try before him; this calls for education. He must be it out, I will tell you what I have done. able to concentrate, he must see that the men I built a seed-bin between the seed house and keep their work place clean, or at least as clean lint room to hold about 50 tons of seed; in this as conditions will permit; this calls for a man bin I placed two feeders which are made out of who is naturally orderly himself. He must see 12” pipe; 48” long with 1” angle iron bolted on that the men work steady and fast and he him­ as wings for feeding the seed. I use two of these self must be a man of energy and be ready at feeders in case one should give trouble I can start all times to pitch in himself when needs be, he the second feeder. The feeders are operated by must supervise time keeping or do it himself, a ratchet feed rgulator; there are no gates to which most commonly is the case; he must dis­ regulate, the feeding is done by changing the cipline the men and readjust wages. This calls ratchet pawl on the regulator; this gives you a for tact and firmness. Therefore it goes to show constant feed from the seed bin to the lint room. that the oil mill superintendent must be a man By installing this outfit, I never have a dry or of good character; his men must respect him, empty linter. This has increased my lint yield he must be a straightforward and sincere man, and kept my meat box from getting empty. It

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also keeps a constant flow of seed at all times, saving devices when we find we can build them whether the negro that feeds seed goes to sleep or buy them from the manufacturers. In 1913, or not in the seed house. I invented the Hook type of cake stripper, which How many superintendents can say that their proved to be a great labor saver. The complaint linters do not run empty, who have not installed started that this machine would tear the an automatic way of feeding seed? I tried every press cloth and yet the machine saved more other way that I knew and heard of, but had in labor than it cost in torn press cloth, and empty linters until I installed this automatic seed many use this machine today. The complaint feed hopper. I found this way of feeding seed of tearing press cloth put the writer to thinking to the linters doing a great deal more than keep­ and today the writer has a machine called the ing linters from running empty. I found I could McNulty Hydraulic Hookless Cake Stripper that give my seed feeders a dinner hour without is a wonder for stripping cake. The cloth is letting the linters run empty. I found by having stripped off the cake by a % ” square steel finger seed hopper full of seed, I could make any repairs shaped so that it is impossible to tear the cloth; on seed house, keeping the linters full of seed the machine will strip 13 cakes per minute; you at the same time. I found, if I was a man short, can place the cake on the table, turn your back I could go to the seed house and get a man and to the machine, place your foot on foot-pedal and the linters would not run empty. cake will be stripped, with no danger to the I found that I did not need over two men in operator. The cake is raised to the stripping the seed house to feed seed and clean up the seed shaft by hydraulic pressure; the finger passes house. I also found out that I could shut down under the cloth by hydraulic pressuse. In fact, the seed house at night, when I was not unload­ I believe it is the last word in stripping cake. I ing seed from cars, using these men in the mill, expect to have this machine in operation at the should we be short of men at night, which hap­ National Oil Mill Superintendents Association; pens very often. In shutting down seed house, also at the Interstate Oil Mill Superintendents you get rid of a fire risk at night. Association. Don’t fail to see this entirely new I want to ask you a question: Has the man cake stripper; it is a wonder. we call seed feeder ever gone to sleep and let I hope to meet all the superintendents; we need your linters run empty? If he has not, you have the Associations; we exchange ideas; we need better men than I. I found it almost impossible new ideas to improve our manufacturing. Let’s get to keep them from sleeping and letting linters together and show our managers what Associa­ run empty. I decided to arrange it so if he went tions mean. Try to induce him to attend and see to sleep, we would have seed so it would auto­ what is done. Should you ever get him to attend matically feed without the man. I weigh all one, you will not keep him from going to the seed going to the mill, and if the seed feeder one next year. goes to sleep, I can tell, for if a certain amount I have given you my idea of keeping seed cool. of seed by weight has not passed to this hopper, I give you my idea of handling seed to save labor. I have the night superintendent give me reasons Yours very truly, why. By this method, I can keep track of seed T. J. McNULTY that has been fed to the seed hopper every day and night. I don’t claim that this is a new idea, but my desire is to let some of the superintend­ G. WORTHEN AGEE, E. R. BARROW, President Sec’y-Treas. ents who have not thought of the idea and have not seen it in operation, give it a trial. It has always been my pleasure to try to get up some­ BARROW-AGEE LABORATORIES thing for the benefit of the cotton seed oil in­ INCORPORATED dustry and then give it to others so we can bring up our industry to a point that will compare Analytical and Consulting Chemists favorably with other industries. We have been using too much labor. The only Laboratories at Memphis, Tenn., Shreveport, La., Jack, way we can cut out this labor is to use labor- son, Miss, and Little Rock, Ark.

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It is with much regret that we record the head. These people have mills at Pearsall, and passing away of Thomas G. Wolfe, at his home, Marfa, Texas. No. 8014 Concord Ave., Dallas, Texas, on Thurs­ day February 23rd. Mr. Wolfe was 58 years of It is with much regret we note the death of age at his death and was well-known to the oil Y. S. Creager, age 81, of Dallas, on February mill trade, having been superintendent of a num­ 14th, at the home of his daughter. Mr. Creager ber of mills in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, is the father of Will R. Creager, of Los Angeles, and Arkansas. Mr. Wolfe is survived by his wife, Calif., superintendent of the California Cotton three daughters, all living in Dallas, and one son, Oil Company’s Los Angeles plant, and who re­ who is-local manager of the Purcell Cotton Oil cently made a visit to Texas to see his father. Co., at Purcell, Okla. Mr. Wolfe was buried in It is said that Mr. Creager was the first male Grove Hill Cemetery, at Dallas, on Saturday, white child born in Grayson County, and he was February 25th; active pall bearers, C. S. Mc­ for many years in the hardware and implement Kinley, M. E. Hagan, Joe Caldwell, J. C. Sproles, business in Sherman. Joe Heigel, and J. W. Kimbrough. Announcement has been made by the Jno E. B. P. Bailey, now living at Gold Hill, Colo., was Mitchell Co., of St. Louis, that work will begin a recent visitor in Texas, visiting at Dallas, Fort shortly on the erection of a large plant on prop­ Worth, Paris, and Shamrock, attending directors erty now owned by them in Dallas, and it is meetings of the Shamrock Cotton Oil Co., and hoped to have the Cotton Gin Parts Manufac­ Lamar Cotton Oil Co., of Paris, and making plans turing Department in operation in Dallas by the for the coming year. middle of summer. It is reported that the plant will cost in the neighborhood of $100,000.00 and G. A. Simmons, of Quanah, and R. M. Sim­will employ something over 50 or 60 men. Or- mons, of Sweetwater, were recent visitors to their office in Dallas from a trip through Okla­ I „ ( homa. j Repair Parts for j Smith-Vaile Oil Mill Through an error in last issue, it was stated that Horace B. Glazner, night superintendent of Machinery the Ardmore Cotton Oil Mill, at Ardmore, Okla., had gone to Palestine, Texas. Mr. Glazner is with the Chickasaw Cotton Oil Mill, as night superin­ I Platt Iron Works i tendent of their Hobart, Okla., mill. Dayton, Ohio The Tullis Cotton Oil Investment Co., of San BUILDERS OF Antonio, Texas, has been incorporated with a | “ Platt” & “ Smith-Vaile” Pumps j capital stock of $125,000.00. Incorporators are: R. A. Tullis, E. D. McMahon, and C. V. Birk-

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Mr. Sam Gregory, representing the Missouri Tenn., locking over possible mill sites, being par­ Bag Co., of St. Louis, was in Memphis on the ticularly interested in the O-Cedar Mills in South 8th and 9th, calling on the trade. Covington, of which R. S. Robertson is manager. It is undrestood that this party also made in­ Mr. 0. C. Sheldon, Cincinnati representative of spection of sites in Dyersburg, Memphis and the Riley Stoker Corporation of Worcester, Mass., Alabama points. was in Memphis on the 10th, looking after busi­ ness interests of the firm. Lee Wilson & Co., of Wilson, Ark., who own 40,000 acres of land in Miss. County, Ark., with The Werthan Bag Co., of Nashville, Tenn., well approximately half of same being planted in known bag firm, has purchased the Morgan & cotton, have shipped twenty five cars of pedi­ Hamilton Co., and are now operating under the greed cottonseed which was handled by the Fris­ name of Werthan-Morgan-Hamilton Bag Co. It co and Missouri Pacific Railroads under the is understood the capitalization of the two com­ orders of the Red Cross relief committee for the panies will be approximately five million dol­ Central Louisiana region. This amount of seed, lars. The Werthan Bag Co. has opened and is given by the Lee Wilson & Co., will be suffi­ now operating a new plant in New Orleans. The cient to plant 60.000 acres of alluvial land in the out-put of the companies will be mostly cotton parishes bordering the Red River, Mississippi and burlap bags. Morris Werthan is president; River, the Ouachita and Atchafalaya Rivers. The Joe Werthan, vice-president, and Bernard Wer­ shipment consisted of five hundred and six tons than, Secretary. of Wilson type Big Boll, valued at about $55,- 000.00. A recent test showed Wilson Type Big A three million dollar cotton mill corporation Boll produced 541 lbs. lint cotton to the acre. now operating three mills, one at Oswego, N. Y., More than $50,000.00 has been spent by the Wil­ and two at Adrian, Mich., are contemplating son interests for the installation of modern seed consolidating and moving south, probably locat­ cleaning machinery. ing on the I. C. Railway between Memphis and Paducah. These mills consume approximately PAUL D. CRETIEN, 15. S. D. It. DICKSON, B. A. 25,000 bales of cotton annually, using 7-8 to 1 W . J. 11RAMIILETT, B. S. inch staple, in the manufacture of children’s and ladies’ knitted underwear, sweaters, etc. There Texas Testing Laboratories will be about one thousand people employed. A ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS party composed of J. G. Merriman, president of ------AND------the Oswego Yarn Mills, of Oswego, N. Y .; A. CHEMICAL ENGINEERS J. Lewis, president of the Adrian Knitted Pro­ Cottonseed Products, Boiler ducts Co., of Adrian, M ich.; W. J. Harris, pres­ Waters, Fuels, Etc. ident of the Sauquit Knitting Co., of Sauquit, DALLAS, TEX.; SWEETWATER. TEX. N. Y., and Messrs. Doyle and Watkins, of Dyers- SAN ANTONIO, TEX. berg, made an inspection tour over Covington,

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The Mississippi Farm Bureau Cotton Assn., The 4-8 saw Continental gin, located at Turrel, Jackson, Miss., intend to begin erection of a cot­ Ark., owned by Mr. Bud Sanders, which was a ton gin to be located at Philadelphia, Miss. This new outfit, just installed this season, was com­ will be a modern gin with the latest type ma­ pletely destroyed by fire during the middle of chinery available. February. This gin was valued at approximately $20,000.00 and some insurance was carried. Mr. The Lee County Gin Co., with offices at Tupelo, Sanders expects to erect a new gin building and Miss., are now dismantling their old gin at equip same with the most modern machinery Sherman, Miss., and will begin replacing it in in time for the coming season’s business. a short time with a modern new 4-80 saw Mur­ ray system. This gin will be operated by elec­ The cotton gin owned by Mr. J. T. Marshall at tricity. Truman, Ark., was destroyed by fire on the night of February 22nd. The gin and seed house and The many friends of Mr. J. H. Schnarenberger, platform were burned, some seed were lost and local representative of the Fairbanks-Morse Co., 30 bales of cotton were also burned. This was of Louisville, Ky., will regret to learn of his a 6-70 saw Continental outfit and valued at about death, which occurred during the latter part of $20,000.00 and was partially covered by insur­ February, after a brief illness. ance. Mr. Marshall expects to rebuild the gin in plenty of time for the new season’s business. Mr. Harry Alcorn, who has been connected with hte DeSoto Oil Co., in the buying of seed Mr. J. L. Latham, traveling seed buyer for the department, is now connected with the Gulf Re­ DeSoto Oil Co., made a business trip through fining Co., located at Turrel, Ark. Arkansas, visiting the different shippers during the latter part of February. Mr. Hugh G. Porter, popular young represent­ ative of the Southern Coal & Coke Co., of Booth- Mr. George Seebs, of Warren, Ohio, has accept­ ton, Ala., who resides in Birmingham, spent ed a position with Marianna Sales Co., in the a number of days in Memphis, Tenn., during linter department. the latter part of the month, calling on his old customers and reports very good business in­ MEETING OF TRI-STATES COTTON SEED deed. Mr. Porter has been absent from this OIL MILL SUPTS. ASSN., MEMPHIS, TENN. section for over a year and all of his friends are glad to greet him back in this territory. The regular monthly meeting opened at 8 o’clock at the Chamber of Commerce, Saturday, Mr. J. F. Waggoner, manager of the Blythe- February 4th. Every superintendent in Memphis ville Cotton Oil Co., Blytheville, Ark., with offi­ answered “ present” to the roll call, and several ces in Memphis, and Mr. J. P. Dickinson, sup­ out-of-town members and visitors were present. erintendent of the DeSoto Oil Co., made a busi­ After the correspondence of the Association was ness trip to Blytheville on the 21st. read by the Secretary, the meeting settled down to business in earnest. Mr. H. E. Mittell, representing Sweet’s En­ The importance of clean mills; ways and means gineering Catalogue, of New York, was in Mem­ of eliminating fire hazards was the first in­ phis on the 10th, calling on friends and cus­ teresting subject. Next was a brief description tomers. of the oil mill industry as a whole, what it means to the South, it ranking third in all industries of Mr. I. H. Fleming, manager DeSoto Oil Co., W. the Southland. E. Gage, president of W. A. Gage & Co., and E. E. Whitner, of W. A. Gage & Co., spent several days in Charleston, Mo., and other points in that section during the latter part of the month, and SCALES and WEIGHTOGRAPHS report a very successful business trip investigat­ Sold— Repaired ing the different cotton gins in that section.

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Following this was a paper presented by Pres­ was attended by cotton men from Walnut Ridge, ident Dickinson, which was very well prepared. Bald Knob, Batesville, Newport and other towns The fact that sensible suggestions were offered in that section. This exchange will serve Law­ for every criticism should be of interest to pro­ rence, Jackson, Independence, White and Wood­ gressive oil millers. After hearing President ruff counties. Dickinson’s paper on “The Superintendent’s Duties and Responsibilities,” it is a wonder why NEW SCREW CONVEYOR BOOK superintendents in the oil mills are so little con­ sidered in authority and compensation. As the aggregate of more than 50 years ex­ Mr. Glick, a visitor of the Association, com­ perience in the manufacture of screw conveyors, pared the superintendents in other industries to H. W. Caldwell & Son Co. has just issued an 85- those in the oil mills, with a like amount of re­ page book devoted entirely to screw conveyor, sponsibility, and claims other industries have fittings and accessories. found it profitable to select the experts to sit A glimpse into the history of screw conveying with the board of directors. shows that at the time the Caldwell Company was founded—in 1874—screw conveyors were The next subject discussed was by A. M. largely built on the job with wooden shafts and Wray. He explained that this Association had no thought of criticising the oil mill managers or various forms of flights. Mr. Caldwell invented the flight made from anyone. The superintendent cares very little a circular disc so that a complete turn around about being promoted or demoted by the man­ the shaft was made with one flight, which was ager. Office men can be trained in a short while and the mistakes they make while new in the quite an improvement over the best to be had at that time. He also standardized conveyors business cost the mill nothing, while mistakes made in the mill, by partly untrained men, cost on pipe shafts with removable couplings, which thousands of dollars and cannot be recovered. standards have been continued to the present Unless the manager himself is a competent me­ time with slight changes. chanical superintendent, he should not have These original improvements and inventions complete authority over the production. Where were followed later by the invention of the Cald­ this is the case, the superintendent has nothing well Helicoid conveyor. to gain, and he knows that someone else receives Their new book covers both the Caldwell Heli­ the .credit and bonuses which rightfully belongs coid and Sectional Flight types. The data, in to him. The man will not put forth his best addition to being very complete, has been ar­ efforts under these conditions, which means, of ranged in a manner to offer the utmost con­ course, another loss to his company. venience to those interest in the subject. A copy may be had by writing to H. W. Cald­ Following this, C. B. Richardson explained well & Son Co., Westren Avenue, 17th & 18th the many things to look after to prevent prime Streets, Chicago, and asking for Book No. 989. oil from being delivered to the refiner with a refining loss. He also pointed out ether indus­ tries where the superintendent’s position was II! YEARS OF SERVICE AT FULL EFFICIENCY ® considered the most important and that they I! —NOT THE FIRST COST !,!! were, paid and recognized according to their Ill IS THE TRUE TEST OF FRICTION CLUTCH iiij I ECONOMY ability. After a general discussion, President Dickin­ l THE “SMITH-TYPE” | |L_ HILL CLUTCH is a safe and jijj son brought the meeting to a close, after advising the superintendents to “put their shoulder to the wheel” for better oil milling. The time is near when the progressive superintendent will be Igs practical investment that pays III! recognized in authority and compensation. The f next meeting will be held March 3rd, and every member is requested to be present. J \ When the load is applied, }|j |! “ Smith Type” Lhis clutch can be depended jjjj II Hill Clutch Unon to “ Stand the gaff.” 111! The Newport Cotton Exchange was organized || Pulley II Designed along correct mechanical lines, during the latter part of February at a special jl Frictional contact 100 per cent effective. jfj meeting called by Mr. Walter Turner, secretary II Lots of reserve power. II HI of the Arkansas Cotton Trade Association. The Built in 20 sizes, from 9 to 1300 H. P. at 100 I R. P. M. organizing committee composed of Mr. T. J. II Install the “ Smith-Type” Hill Clutch for econ- ||| Gregg and Mr. Tom Huston, will have charge of II omical operation of prime power units, individual jjjj || machines, sections of shafts, or group drives. the membership of the Exchange. This meeting | THE HILL CLUTCH MACHINE & FOUNDRY CO. || 1| General Office and Works New York Sales Office jjjj Cleveland, Ohio 50 Church St. March, 1928 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 15

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You will find in this issue, a letter from our The Oil Mill Gazetteer does not necessarily endorse all friend of many years, W. E. Copenhaver, of the opinions expressed in contributions appearing herein. As the Official Organ of The National Oil Mill Super­ Springfield, Ohio. For nearly twenty five years, intendents’ Association, this journal carries official com­ he has been in regular attendance at our con­ munications and articles concerning the activities of the ventions and has always taken an active and Association, but in all other respects the Association is constructive part in our Association affairs. not responsible for what appears in these pages, includ­ ing opinions to which expression is given. “Copie” attended the National Convention in Houston last year and we know that his many Officers of the National Oil Mill Superintendents Ass’n. friends will welcome him to the convention in W. G. DAVIS, Sweetwater, Texas...... President Dallas this year. M. C. Dimphl, Abilene, Texas...... Vice President His goal should be at least thirty conventions F. P. MORRIS, Purcell, Okla.,...... Secretary-Treasurer of the National Association. State Vice Presidents We are glad to print his letter. It will recall ARKANSAS, W. A. Pugh...... Fort Smith ALABAMA, P. Z. Harllee...... Birmingham many interesting events to the minds of a num­ CALIFORNIA, Will Creager...... Los Angeles ber of our readers... MISSISSIPPI, T. J. McNulty...... Brookhaven OKLAHOMA, Jno. B. Alford...... Shawnee The Oil Mill Superintendents Summer School LOUISIANA, A. J. Lurry...... New Orleans TENNESSEE, Homer Barnes...... Memphis at A. and M. College, is an assured fact. The NORTH CAROLINA, J. W. Bartholemew..... Rocky Mount editor has just returned from A. and M. College TEXAS, Tom Turner...... Hillsboro and Dr. C. C. Hedges, who is head of the de­ Board of Directors partment under which this school will be held, ONE YEAR— C. C. Reed,...... Oklahoma City assured him that all arrangements had been TWO YEARS— C. S. McKinley...... Dallas THREE YEARS—Homer Barnes...... Memphis made, and that the school would be opened on FOUR YEARS—W. W. Thornton...... Texarkana June 12th, without fail. Bulletins will be issued at an early date, giving The convention dates for the 1928 conven­ all the facts in connection with enrollment and tion, National Oil Mill Superintendents Associa­ what the cost will be and where to go when tion, are June 4th, 5th, and 6th, and the conven­ arriving at College Station, and other informa­ tion city is Dallas, Texas. tion. We expect to have a full account as well Because of conflicting dates with the Texas as a copy of the bulletin and program in the Cotton Seed Crushers Association, . which had April issue of the Gazetteer, and at that time, been set for May 28th, to 30th, and as the Sup­ give the subjects to be lectured on and the names erintendents Summer School had been arranged of the lecturers. In addition to the subjects that for, beginning June 12th, there was no other al­ will be given for study for the two weeks March, 1928 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 17

course, there will be several lectures given by 1928. May 14th and 15th will be devoted to de­ well-known men in the industry. liberations of the Rules Committee; the following However, the subject that will be given the three days to the Convention proper. closest attention and study, will be press room Arrangements have been made with all rail­ work; making tests on your own cake and oil, roads for reduced rates, on the certificate plan. while the mill is in operation to determine ex­ You should consult your ticket agent in advance traction of oil from the cake, as well as separa­ of your proposed starting date and be sure to tion. purchase your ticked, ONE WAY ONLY, on one The writer will get out a letter to all of the of the authorized dates of sale— then demand a managers of the mills in Texas within the next Certificate of Purchase (they have a regular few weeks, in order to learn the names of the form for this purpose) showing date purchased, mills that will agree to send their superintend­ amount paid, bearing impression of selling ents and pay their expense to this school. We agent’s ticket dating stamp, and his signature. must know just how many men to expect at the Bring this certificate with you to New Orleans school in order that Dr. Hedges can arrange to and deliver it to the clerk when you register take care of them while there. The only cost your attendance. This is very important and to the mill or man attending, will be his railway positively must be done to insure reduced rate ticket to and from College Station, and his board returning. and laundry while there. Remember, the school Make Your Hotel Reservations Early starts on June 12th, and will run for two weeks. Hon. E. Percy Chivers— address, Hibernia CO-OPERATION URGED Bank Bldg., is Chairman Hotel Reservation Com­ mittee— write him NOW. Tell him what you One of our good friends writes us that he want and “ Percy will do the rest.” meets up with some superintendents who com­ Mr. Dan Feitel, “ The Indomitable Dan’ is plain that they do not receive the Gazetteer reg­ Chairman of the Ladies Entertainment and ularly. Automobile Committee, therefore, there will be We are sorry to receive this information as we an abundance of entertainment for the ladies— try our best to keep our records in first class and “ gas wagons” at their disposal. shape. Bring the ladies and children— then there will Each month we print and place in the post be Golf, Jai-Ala, a banquet and a big ball. office a copy of the Gazetteer for every super­ You know E. T. George? He’s the general intendent and subscriber on our list. The ad­ Chairman and has never failed to supply the dressing of the wrappers is a mechanical oper­ necessary. ation and there should be no misses. The Editor asks the co-operation of his friends, the subscribers, the superintendents and ad­ vertisers, and will appreciate it very much if WOODALL & PENDLETON they will give him the name and initials and the 1204-5 Santa Fe Building Dallas, Texas correct address of any one entitled to receive the MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS Gazetteer who fails to do so. To do this will take but a moment of your FOR time and it will assure the readers of receiving Bagging and Ties, Sugar Bagging and Ties, Press their copy without interruption. Cloth, Cotton and Jute Twine, Metal Tags, Ware­ house Brooms, Paint, Gummer and Linter Files, New York Rubber Corporation Rubber Belting 33rd CONVENTION COTTONSEED CRUSHERS ALEXANDER BROS. LEATHER BELTING The Thirty-Third Annual Convention of the Interstate Cottonseed Crushers Association will WRITE, WIRE OR PHONE US FOR PRICES be held at New Orleans, La., May 14th to 18th,

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Cotton Seed Crushers’ Committee research in feed products being conducted by the Has Most Successful Meeting’ In A. and M. College as well as observe the co­ operative support given this work by the Texas History at A.-M. College Monday Cottonseed Crushers’ Association. Among phases of the work being carried on at the college that COLLEGE STATION, Feb. 28.— The annual attracted especial interest was that of the com­ session of the executive committee of the Texas plete cotton seed oil mill and refining plant pre­ Cottonseed Crushers’ Association held Monday sented last year as laboratory equipment for the at the A. and M. College of Texas, was char- department cf chemistry and chemical engineer­ actei ized following the banquet Monday night ing of the college by the Texas Cottonseed Crush­ that brought the program to a closc as one of the ers’ Association. A. and M. is one of the few, best in the history of the organization. In ad­ if not the only college in the country with such dition to full membership of the executive com­ a plant. mittee, the committee to co-cperate with A. and A rather extensive program of talks was given M. College and a majority of the educational at the banquet in the evening, held in the Mess committee, a number of representatives of the Hall Annex. Of particular interest was the talk cottonseed industry as well as representatives of President T. 0. Walton, in which he discussed from A. and M. Colleges of Louisiana, Arkansas, briefly pertinent angles of the present pink boll and Oklahoma were here for the meeting. worm issue. At the business session of the executive com­ Stressing the vital bearing of this question has mittee in the morning, Corpus Christi was select­ not only to do with the cotton industry in Texas, ed as the 1927 convention city and the date was but the Nation as well. Dr. Walton declared he fixed as May 28. The rules committee will con­ believed the “time has come when Texas should vene at Corpus Christi May 26, it was announced. put the problem before Congress as a problem The cotton seed crushers and others here for that is not merely a state problem, but a ques­ the meeting were the guests of the college at tion of concern to the whole country.” luncheon at noon and dinner in the evening. Dur­ ing the morning, they were conducted on a tour “The expense of investigating and fighting the of the various agricultural departments, Fred pink boll worm is a matter that should be borne Hale, chief of the swine husbandry division of equally by the State and Federal Governments.” the Experiment Station, directing the tour. he said, “ or, more equitably, in large portion by Visit to the feeding and breeding station was the Federal Government, say two-thirds by the made at 10 o’clock. In the afternoon, the vis­ Federal Government, and one third by the State. itors inspected various other departments of the The first outbreak of the pink boll worm was college, including the mechanical engineering some ten years ago. We know little of the pest shops, chemistry and chemical engineering de­ yet. The Federal Government has done some partment, textile engineering department, Ex­ work, however. Texas should have a strong periment Station. Ray Flagg, acting head of program of research in working out safeguards the mechanical engineering department; M. K. against this menace to the cotton industry. We Thornton, Jr., professor of industrial chemistry; have a little money, appropriated for insect pest J. B. Bagley, head of the textile engineering de­ investigations by the Fortieth Legislature, but partment, and Dr. G. S. Fraps, chief of the we should have more.” chemistry division, Experiment Station, assist­ Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of the department of ed in escorting the visitors through the various chemistry and chemical engineering, and vice departments in question. dean of the school of engineering, opened the Review of the cadet corps in the afternoon was speaking program at the banquet. He expressed a feature of the entertainment program for the the pleasure of the college at having the cotton­ visitors. seed crushers as guests and turned the program The visitors from Louisiana, Arkansas and over to H. E. Wilson, cf Wharton, member of Oklahoma were invited to the meeting here in the Association’s committee to cooperate with order that they might observe the program or A. and M., as toastmaster.

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In addition to President Walton, Dr. Hedges, The press room with stack cookers and all and Mr. Wilson, speakers included: Daniel Bond, other apparatus needed for the department, with Vernon, president of the Association; Charles no light, no air, is a hell on earth! The seed is Dubose, San Antonio; J. B. Snell, Minden, La.; very dry; the cooking of 30 minutes, surely, has Dean C. T. Dowell, School of Agriculture, Okla- an awful effect on the color of the oil, refining home A. and M.; J. C. Jones, Abilene; Lt.-Col. loss by free fatty acid, etc. C. J. Nelson, A. and M .; Dudley C. Johnson, San From the oil, soap is made from the common Marcos; R. B. Thompson, Oklahoma A. and M .; washing soap to the nicest toilet soap. The mill W. F. Pendleton, Dallas; Dr. G. S. Fraps, Texas has a contract for soap with the Mexican Govern­ A. and M .; Director 0. B. Martin, Extension ment for the supply of soap in the sleepers on the Service, A. and M.; Dean F. C. Bolton, A. and M .; trains. A. L. Ward, Dallas.— Bryan Daily Eagle. The laboratory is the most complete I have ever seen in any mill. Tests are made contin­ OIL MILLING IN MEXICO uously for the betterment of their products. The seed house is only a shed with no siding. To the Editcr of The Gazetteer, Wharton, Texas. Sometimes 400 to 500 feet long and nearly as wide. Hot seed is unknown in that country. Always acting “ a-!a-Van Winkle,” that is, let In Toreon there are six mills. I visited every the lazy bones get the best of me; many times I one. I was fortunate in selling a mill of 8 presses, sat down with a determination to write a long arranged in two units of 4 presses with Deisel en­ article for the Gazetteer. On What? Oh, yes!— gine, the most complete plant there, I am sure. a six weeks’ visit into Old Mexico in the Toreon The customs are so different to ours. When district—properly called the white gold territory one is among that kind of people, he must nearly cn account of cotton cultivation. The valley is have to act as they do. very peculiar. On each side, ranges of moun­ One “oath” I must make is I never touched a tains with sides mostly perpendicular, the valley “drop,” can you believe it? You have known me lays fiat, and cultivation is made by irrigation long enough to vouch for that. because cnly two and one half to three inches of rainfall per year. I didn’t promise an article, much less a good one for the March issue; only my trip to the The staple cf the cotton is very short with little strength. The seed is low in oil content. Gcmez-Palacios mill in the Toreon district. The mills work regularly the year round, and the Yours very truly, operation is the worst I have ever seen in my life. F. E. VOORHIES Imagine a 42 press0oil mill— the Buckingham Mill at Gomez-Palacios—with all the by-products of the cotton. I got in the superintendent’s office, Can’t Be Beat in Quality or Price of Mr. Schwartz, by whom I was received and visited all through the plant. The first part was WHAT? the lint press, a hand-power affair. They do not The Barker-Sweet need much more when ten to twelve pounds of lint is all they gather from the seed. The lint ULTRA GUMMER FILES room with sixty linters—not doing the work bet­ FOR ALL GIN AND LINTER ter because the saws are projecting one quarter SAW FILING MACHINES of an inch through the ribs into the roll. The For 20 Years The Standard File amount of lint left on the seed acts as a good absorber. Naturally, the two hullers, two shak­ BARKER & SWEET ers and two beaters is the only separation— you 269 Pearl St., New York City, N. Y. can imagine what kind of separation.

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BAUER BROS. CO. GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

Springfield, Ohio, February 20, 1928 Mr. H. 'E. Wilson, Editor, Oil Mill Gazetteer, Wharton, Texas. Dear Mr. Wilson: I was greatly interested in your reproduction in the January issue of the Gazetteer of the Bauer Bros. Co. advertisement which appeared in July 1906. As I recall, it appeared in the issue following the superintendents’ convention held in Memphis at the Old Turner Hall, where M. W. Faherty, then superintendent of the Per­ kins Oil Mill, was elected president and C. N. Thatcher, of Texas, was chosen vice-president. It was a splendid meeting with the best exhibi­ tion of machinery that had been held at any oil mill convention up to that time and it gave an impetus to the association that grew with each succeeding convention. A few years later, at New Orleans, the Oil Mill Machinery Manufac­

turers and Supply Association was organized as W. E. COPEJfHAArER, Springfield, Ohio an auxiliary to the Superintendents’ Association and since that time the machinery exhibits at was held in Dallas upon the second floor of a the superintendents’ conventions have been both large frame building near the Oriental Hotel. interesting, educational, and profitable to all There were perhaps seventy-five oil mill men in those in attendance. attendance. It was in the good old days when This year the Bauer Bros Co. is celebrating pennies were unknown in Texas. A nickel was its Golden Anniversary—fifty years of growth the smallest coin in circulation. and progress. The early motto of the old Foos The Briggs-Weaver Machinery Co. of Dallas Mfg. Co. was “ What Is Worth Doing, Is Worth were then, as now, the representatives of the Doing Well.” This was demonstrated in their company. earliest productions exhibited at the Louisiana As I look back over the intervening years, there Exposition held in New Orleans when a bronze passes in my memory, a host of men active in medal and a handsomely engraved diploma of the industry in their day, mighty factors in its merit was awarded the company. growth and development, many—yes many of The growth and development of the Bauer whom have passed to the great beyond. Bros. Co. is reflected in the greater efficiency of I think when active in road work pertaining the oil mill industry. Col. Jos. W. Allison, Mr. to the affairs of the company, the writer enjoyed J. J. Culbertson, Mr. J. J. Lawton, and many a wider personal acquaintance with members of others whom we might name, ground their first the oil mill fraternity than most anyone else cake upon the old horizontal French Burr stones can claim. My regular attendance at conventions, and all other departments of the mill, as then covering many years, and my frequent visits to equipped, are similarly antiquated as we look back the oil mill plants, especially during the introduc­ upon them now. tion of double hulling, brought me in contact The development of the Attrition Mill, Cake with owners, chemists, superintendents, and Breaker, Pneumatic Seed Cleaner, Disc Huller others, and there lingers in my memory many and separating machinery followed from year to courtesies enjoyed at their hands—such court­ year and were exhibited at the annual conven­ esies and friendships as one finds only in the tions and attracted much attention. southland, with its warm-hearted people, their Mr. H. S. Bradley, now president of the La- great kindness and consideration for one for gonda Manufacturing Co., and the first secretary whom they have formed an attachment—for­ of the Foos Manufacturing Co., has given a tunate indeed is he who has gained it. very interesting account in your February issue But what of the years to come ? We predict of his first Inter-state Cotton Seed Crushers Con­ substantial advancement in milling methods and vention held in Memphis about the year 1893. firmly believe just as double hulling and im­ The writer attended his first convention of proved separation revolutionized the industry this association a few years later. The meeting in this department of the oil mill some years March, 1928 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 23

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ago, just so will other forward steps be developed Association, particularly the Interstate Cotton by the Bauer Bros. Co. through their capable Seed Crushers’ Association which he represented engineering force and when they have rounded officially. out and celebrated their one hundredth anniver­ I have recently seen a letter from Mr. Hodgson sary, doubtless someone will write of the abso- in regard to our 1928 convention, in which he lete methods now in use just as we now refer to says, “These conventions, accompanied by the the operations of fifty years ago. excellent display of the latest improved mill In closing permit me to say your Gazetteer machinery, have a distinct educational value has always served as an excellent advertising that is highly appreciated by oil mill managers medium, being the official organ of the Asso­ and owners.” In the same letter, he also said, ciation, in which many excellent articles per­ I expect to attend the convention again this taining to oil mill subjects appear—for example June and hope it will be well attended, as it we note in the February issue articles by two of surely will be, by forward looking superintend­ our old friends, J. P. Dickinson, of Memphis, and ents of the industry.” M. C. Dimpfel, of Abilene, both of which are well-worth reading. We feel over here that it is a great advantage to our organization to have such men as Mr. Your personal notes are always interesting and Hodgson give our work a stamp of approval and keep your subscribers in touch with current we feel quite confident that the meeting next events as do your trade notes. We think the June will not only be one to give pleasure and Gazetteer shows constant improvement. enjoyment to those who attend, but it will also Yours very truly, have a distinct educational value. W. E. COPENHAVER Yours very truly, Oil Mill Supts. Exhibitors Association INTERSTATE SUPTS. CONVENTION By W. FRANK DAUB, Sec. Plans for the annual convention of the In­ terstate Oil Mill Superintendents’ Association LARGEST SELF-ALIGNING ROLLER BEAR. are proceeding nicely. The convention is to be INGS IN WORLD RUNNING SUCCESSFUL­ held in Atlanta, Ga., June 6th-7th and 8th. LY FOR OVER THREE Y'EARS The Gazetteer will give its readers additional convention information in the April and May Huge Tube Mill Used in Pulverizing at the Plant Issues by which time, the plans will be more Of Dexter Portland Cement Co. mature. Is S. K. F. Equipped The following letter from the Secretary of the Oil Mill Superintendents’ Exhibitors Association, Two huge S. K. F. Spherical Bearings, of the will be of interest. type shown in the photograph on page 26, the Atlanta, Ga., February 25, 1928 largest of their kind in actual service the world Oil Mill Gazetteer, over, have been successfully operating for a Wharton, Texas, period of over three years in a “cylpeb” cement Gentlemen: mill at the plant of the Dexter Portland Cement I thank you for your invitation of February Company, Nazareth, Pennsylvania. These bear­ 23rd to send you further news in regard to the ings, almost three feet in diameter, are carrying convention of the Interstate Oil Mill Superin­ the load of a 5 W by 26’ tube mill used in pul­ tendents Association that will be held here in verizing. The mill is driven by a 250 H- P. motor June. at a speed of 26 R. P. M. The load is 50 tons or Our plans are not yet perfected and we have 25 tons per bearing. made no particular effort or plans as yet, but During the three-year period, these bearings Mr. J. H. Morgan of Ozark, Alabama, the pres­ have been on the job continuously and, the only ident of the Association, writes us that the pros­ attention required has been replenishing of lub­ pects to him seem good for a large convention. ricant several times a year. In addition to We have been greatly encouraged in this work carrying heavy thrust and radial loads, an im­ by the attitude of the managers in this section. portant feature of these bearings has been their Last year, at our convention, Mr. Harry Hodg­ self-aligning characteristics. Any inaccuracies son, president the Hodgson Oil Refining Com­ in setting up and settling of foundation is com­ pany, Athens, Georgia, and who is also one of the pensated for within the bearings without the vice-presidents of the Interstate Crushers Asso­ need of any external aligning devices or the set­ ciation, made a talk to the superintendents and ting up of internal strains or stresses. assured them of the hearty co-operation, not only S. K. F. Spherical Bearings, in principle, differ of the individual managers, but of the Crushers’ from the conventional type of roller bearing in March, 1928 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 25

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Cotton Oil Mills Are Appreciated from $1.30 to $1.50 per seed ton capacity, de­ pending on their location and labor conditions. Generosity of Mills and Contribution to Relief This means for the buildings alone. As there are Of Financial Distress Commended In Letter so many different ideas of equipment it would be a hard matter to get a cost of equipment. The following letter appearing in the January “I have in mind one building 80x250x16 walls Cotton Oil Press will be of interest to superin­ with a fire wall in the center and including an tendents, we are sure: A tunnel which can be built ready for the equip­ Editor Cotton Seed Oil Mill Journal, ment, exclusive of the floor, for about $12,000, and which would have a capacity of 7,500 tons. Memphis, Tenn. This size building is a very desirable size, as the I have a moderate size plantation and a small floor space, with fire wall, makes it within the gin. I have attended some of the agricultural insurance requirements and does not assume a classes from year to year and believe that I keep penalty. my business in pretty good shape—at least I “The Rocke postless buildings can be built with think I know what my crops cost and if I make as high as 24-foot walls and which reduces the any profits. Also I try and find out all I can cost per seed ton to build, as the roof is one of from the newspapers and from the Government the greatest expenses to any building. Every about the values of stuff I raise on the farm, and location generally has its own local conditions I want to say to you, Mr. Editor, that in all my and it is not possible to estimate a seed house years of working on the farm, I have never seen for one location that will fit another. In the a crowd of business people who took a more matter of floors there is a wide difference of friendly and active interest in the welfare of the opinion. On this point I am sure if a concrete farmers and ginners than has been shown by the floor is used there should be a damp course layed people operating the oil mills this season. all over under the concrete. This can be done I have read a lot about what the big factories with tar paper and tar, which is the only success­ do for their labor—how they sell stock—give ful waterproofing known to builders. A sand vacations and all of that sort of stuff but the bed has not been successful in preventing mois­ only business people to give the cotton farmers ture from rising. I am a firm believer in clean­ and ginners a lot of money are the cottonseed ing the seed before it goes into the seed house, oil mill people. I have been seeing in the paper as this livens up the seed that may have become that oil has been lower every day—I have gotten packed and makes the seed much easier to lint, the county agent to figure out what a ton of as well as cleans them. This, in turn, makes a cottonseed was worth, and as far as I can make cleaner oil and is traced all the way down the out, we farmers have been getting about $5.00 line.”— Cotton Oil Press. a ton more than the seed is worth and my gin has been making almost twice as much on cotton­ seed as they used to, and I am one farmer who WORLD’S FINEST WIRE CLOTH wants to express my thanks and appreciation for such broad-minded and intelligent men that run By W . F. Schaphorst, M. E. these cottonseed oil mills who know they can’t 45 Academy Street, Newark, N. J. exist if they don’t help the farmer and I do hope A world’s record has been established by the that they have now found what co-operation that Newark Wire Cloth Company of Newark, N. J., we farmers give them under these cricumstances by making a wire cloth having 160,000 square that they will always continue this very progres­ openings per square inch. It is the finest wire sive policy, and Mr. Editor, I hope other farmers cloth ever made. will write to you and express their appreciation. In other words, it is a “400 mesh” wire cloth Yours for the oil mills, with 400 parallel wires per inch of width run­ E. Z. MONEY ning each way, at right angles. We hope our readers know many farmers like 400x400 equals 160,000 openings. “ E. Z. Money.” 1,000,000 divided by 160,000 equals 6.25/ Therefore in a piece of the wire cloth slightly POSTLESS COTTONSEED WAREHOUSES more than 6 square inches in, area, there are one milion holes, or to be exact, in a piece only M. M. Rocke of Amarillo, Tex., writes as fol­ 2 1/ 2 inches square there are one million square low s: microscopic openings. “Up to the present I have built six buildings Heretofore the finest wire cloth ever made in in the ironclad type, and, while I have not been the United States has been 325 mesh and it, able to get their exact cost, will say they run too, is made by the Newark Wire Cloth Company. March, 1928 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 31

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It is known as Sieve Number 325 by the U. S. garding their newly developed 400 mesh wire Bureau of Standards, and has been adopted as cloth. They make wire cloth of all malleable standard by the American Society of Testing metals all the way from steel to gold and plat­ Materials. inum, in all meshes, sizes, weaves, widths, and Those unfamiliar with fine wire cloth and its lengths. manufacture probably cannot appreciate the diffi­ culties encountered in making a 400 mesh cloth. 325 mesh is fine, yes, but 400 mesh is so much finer that each suare inch of 400 mesh contains 54,375 more openings per square inch than the 325 mesh cloth. N. O. M. S. A. To be sure, ordinary fine wire is not fine enough for 400 mesh wire cloth. It hasn’t the necessary quality:—the correct temper—the re­ Convention quired uniformity. The Newark Wire Cloth Company, for many years, has found it neces­ sary to draw all of its own fine wire, and of course it was an absolute requisite for them to Meets in draw the wire for this 400 mesh cloth themselves. Some ten years ago, the United States Bureau of Standards, in their investigation of testing screens, said that it seemed impossible for Amer­ DALLAS ican manufacturers to successfully manufacture wire cloth with meshes finer than 100 to the inch, and that wire cloth with finer meshes had to be imported. For a long time previous to this, June 4-5-6 all of the fine wire cloth on sale in the United States came from foreign countries. At that time, 325 mesh was the finest made, and 250 mesh was the finest produced in the United Let’s All Go States. It is a fact that the manufacturers of the United States had been rather backward in the fabricating of wire cloths finer than 100 meshes mi to the inch until about 1912, when some experi­ CLEAN-UP and PAINT-UP Time is Here mental work was started in weaving a piece of PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING PRICES 200-mesh cloth of a special metal for a large Industrial Red ...... $1.35 laboratory. After overcoming many difficulties, In dustrial Green ...... §1.40 a piece of 200-mesh cloth 34 inches by 100 feet In dustrial Gray ...... $1.75 No. 1 House I’aint, lead, oil and zinc...... $2.75 was completed, using this special metal of a Beseote, our liquid asbestor roof costing, per gal 75c diameter of 0.0021 inch. From that time on Leak Seal Boiler W a ll Coating, per pound ...... 8c Stack Paint, No. 1 ...... $2.00 Europe has had American competition. Stack Paint, No. 2 ...... $1.50 To Scotland belongs the credit for having made The above prices are in barrels and one-half bar­ the first wire cloth which was made many years rels; 10c additional when packed in 5-gallon contain­ ers. ago. The first to be made in the United States We guarantee this material to satisfy you or was made in Belleville, N. J., a little over 100 your money back. Mail orders shipped the day years ago, by some Scotch immigrants. It is received. said that one of their old and original hand looms H MAKE THIS COMPANY YOUR COMPANY is still in operation. | THE WESTERN PAINT & ROOFING CO. The Newark Wire Cloth Company will be glad Q II. R. MARTIN, Sales Mgr. FORT WORTH, TEXAS to send complete information to any reader re­

HOUSTON SCALE COMPANY WE ARE NOW LOCATED IN OUR NEW HOME, 4516 WASHINGTON AVE.. AND HAVE LARGER AND BETTER EQUIPMENT AND CAN GIVE YOU QUICKER SERVICE. WE CARRY FULL LINE OF AVAGON AND MOTOR TRUCK SCALES. ALL-METAL FAIRBANKS PORTABLE SCALE, EOO LR. CAPACITY, .1*17.05; 1000 LB. ALL- METAL, $20.05 F. O. B. HOUSTON. HOUSTON SCALE CO. H - HOOD, Mgr. Phone Taylor 11155 Houston, Texas Have You Asked for the Facts

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