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Once-Scorned Cottonseed Comes Into Its Own This to the third of exptoriae on Chemurgy, science's contri bution to the task of restoring the farmer to prosperity. . *. BY PAUL FRIGGENS eats Service Staff Writer cotton is chemurgy's challenge in the poxibh ltt The economic welfare of the south is centered around the cotton industry and the industry is facing the gravest crisis in its history There is a surplus of more than 11,500,000 bales of American cot ton in the current crop. Foreign cotton production is rising steadily, increasing some 80 per cent since 1928. There is a marked decrease in the export of domestic cotton to foreign spinners at the same time. So the American situation calls, for drastic action. Three solutions, one of which is chemurgys may be considered. ‘The United States might launch a program to increase its cotton ex ports, a plan unlikely to succed in the face of present world condi tions It might curtail production to the 7,000,000 bales consumed annually. Or finally, the industry may turn to wholesale development of new uses for cotton Chemurgy sees the real hope in this last di rection. Chemurgy sees this hope be cause already 1% has developed scores of uses for cotton not or dinarily associated with the plant. It is confident that hundreds more can be discovered by exhaustive research All this will take time, of course. Chemurgy makes no predictions as to the ultimate sal vation of the cotton industry but t is sure it can fo a long way toward improving 1. RIDING ON COTTON Consider the possibilities 88 chemurgy seen them. You would ride on cotton reada, five in a cotton house, bathe In a cotton tub, drese in fireproof cotton clothes and lis ten to “cotton” music under in tensive ciiremurgic development. Yee would ave cotton is var nish, lacquers, explosives, cello phane, rayon, airplanes, auto mobiles, as am substitute for ceramic tile, as flosr covering and even in toys for children. As one chemurgist bao put it, you might conceivably use cot ton in some 10,000 form. Cotton road, the chemurpiats are confident, are going 10 to rich to decrease Dixie's surplus of the white staple. They base their predictions on a series of ex perients which show bituminous surfaced roads which have a cotton binder—a coarse cotton sheet be tween layers of tar products—are easy to culd and economical to maintain. “The properly built cotton road is Virtually waterproof, with no water seeping into the base and permitting freezing weather to cause damage which appears in the ‘frost bes and ravelings that make annual repairs necessity.” Cinton T Revere, New York en gineer recently told the annual convention of the National Farm Chemurge Counci Revere estimated the maximum cost of bulkling cotton roads at $5000 a mile with the “annual maintenance charge reduced prac tically to ni” He pointed to 2,000,000 miles of farm-to market roads alone as possible outlets for Us phase of cotton utilization, AND “RUBBER.” TOO Most of the products made from cotton so far have come from the cotton linters, the blue “fuzz that sticks to the seed when the fiber is removed They make an impress ve list including fountain pen bar rele, paper. wire inulation, phonograph records plastc parta for automobiles, surgical dressage low-erage sarnk. But chemurgy considers this only a part of the ration doy The other and per haps more valuable. the cotton Ao GHaAnV Yeara ago coton consuered cottonseed af pety worthiess Chen utes have now turned at Into am om portani industral prostuct com the seed, itn ulin ami ant came shortening. margarine ard 1 Cross.ncs, medical prepare, soap and swashing rec tal finns cos caciaes oer ari ceoiten rubber” Cotte, cubber 8 molding paternal which a annular to hard miter Th may be used for GgM to AUR, drexa ormamey’s TOY . hehabeated Iavatones Souie caliy chenurgie Ti Wi.states “at how fae the colin patch may be astited to amdually The socthe We eoonenc preb- Wei presults from als surplus of cattos fiver but at lines there i an actual abortage of the cotten peed from which habfuts may be make, for exampe The United States imports apprecmably DH. 7 A pounda of cottonseed oil at the present time and large quantities of vegetable oils for which cottonseed oil might be substituted SIGNIFICANT SEEDS “It is conceivable then” says D T Killough, agronomist at Texsa Agricultural Experiment Btation, “that a new type of cot ton plant may be developed through breeding im which the seed 4 the clef product, rather than the int .Cotton in grown primarily for its fiber and it is this which has created the burdensome surplus ore solution therefore, would be to produce more seed and less fiber, which would require a plant that stores the larger part of is energy in its seed” Chemutgy of already at work on that. As a matter of fact, it has already produced types of short linted seeds lntless seed, and tint-shedding seed Thus chemurgy accepts the challenge of cotton And as Wheeler McMillen of the National Farm Chemurgic Council aces if it is prepared to give no quarter NEAT: Chermurgy’s milk magic. ie
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