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P R IC E T E N C E N T S
— “BAUER” originated
the Beater with revolv­
ing- cylinders displacing
the old cradle type.
— The BAUER Rotary
has greater screening
area per ton of seed
worked than any other
Beater. It’s efficiency is
well known. Also built
with single cylinder.
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WHY?
Because we employ in their manufacture only the best raw
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We sell them to you for relatively less, afforded by our vol­
ume of production and ripe experience.
Our reputation is established and you take no chance. There­
fore, with our press cloth you are in competing- advantage
with your products to meet your neighboring1 mill competitor.
We do not make test rolls, but stock rolls, that run uniformly
throughout the year; we do not trifle with your credulity
through means of confusing technical theories merely to sell
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AGENCIES
ATLANTA, GA.
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Peeples and Melone, 24 1-2 Luckie St.
Kaminer & Neil, 804 Nat’l Loan & Exch. Bank Bldg.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.,
MEMPHIS, TENN.,
George B. Aarons, 441 S. Peters St.
Linden Storage Co., Linden Station
SHIPMENTS DIRECT FROM FACTORY OR ABOVE AGENCY POINTS
Main Office and Mills, Houston, Texas
New York O ffice, 50 Church St.
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W H A R T O N , T E X A S , F E B R U A R Y , 1925
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION
The most of you are making up your repair
lists and requisitions fo r new equipment and
while doing this, if you would recommend sup­
plies and m achinery that are advertsied in your
official organ, you would be helping the Oil Mill
Gazetteer as well as yourself without adding
anything to the cost o f your material. All o f
this is o f course provided that our advertisers
will make you the same prices that others will,
and they are in the business fo r that purpose.
Why not turn over a new leaf and help out the
editor of the Gazetteer to this extent? It will
also show your appreciation to the advertisers
in your official organ.
The editor is doing his best to give you a
good paper, but w ithout your help he has his
hands tied. W e need the co-operation of every
member o f the association, both in talking the
advertising columns to the men from whom
you buy your supplies and equipment to writing
for the columns. W e have been repeatedly ask­
ed by our advertisers w hy it is that the con­
tributors to our columns have fallen o ff so badly.
They want to know if you all have w riter’s
cramp or are ju st too busy to write.
As mentioned elsewhere in this issue, this is
our last appeal to ttie members o f the A sso­
ciation. It is your paper and you should take
more interest in it than you do.
If you do
not take this interest, we will have to do the
best we can w ithout your help. HOW ABOUT
IT BOYS?
We ran across our good friend John G uffee
in Dallas the other day. John looks prosperous
and told us to tell the boys that he believed
we are going to have a good convention this,
year.
We see our good friend George Walsh has not
forgotten how to write. He has a good article
in the Oil Miller this month. W e wonder if
he has forgotten our address.
It’s better business policy to patronize the
advertisers o f the Gazetteer, the official organ,
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PR ICE TEN C E N T S
BANKERS GIVE L. P. BROWN, JR., HIGH
PLACE
L. P. Brown, Jr., o f Memphis, has been elect­
ed chairman o f the Board o f Directors o f the
International Vegetable Oil Company.
P. R.
Lamar o f Atlanta, Ga., has been relected presi­
dent o f the company, and the executive offices
will be continued in that city, while the executive
direction o f the company will be divided be­
tween Mr. Brown and Mr. Lamar, with the fo r ­
mer in direct charge o f operations. Mr. Brown’ s
selection to this responsible position by the lead­
ing New York and Boston bankers who hold fi­
nancial control o f this company is a high com ­
pliment to his personal character and business
abilities. The position was not sought by him
and it was a case of the job seeknig and finding
the man. The cottonseed crushing industry will
view with confidence and satisfaction the asso­
ciation o f these two comparatively young men
in the management of the large interes of
the International Company. Both men are won­
derfully well equipped in experience and execu­
tive qualifications to make the company an out­
standing example o f successful oil mill operators.
Mr. Brown will retain his interest in the mill
machinery and supply business which he estab­
lished in Memphis a few years ago under the
HOUSTON LABORATORIES
P. S. TILSON, M. S.
Analytical and Consulting Chemist
COTTON SEED AND PEANUT
PRODUCTS
A
SPECIALTY
Member o f the Interstate and Texas Cotton Seed
Crushers’ A ss’ns. and Referee Chemist
o f the American Oil Chemists’
Society
215 1-2 Main Street
HOUSTON, TEXAS
When you get your copy o f the Gazetteer,
first, always read all of t e adveitisem ents.
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name o f the L. P. Brown Co., but which has re­
cently been merged with the Lewis Mill Supply
Company of Helena, A rkansas; the new company
being incorporated as theLewis-Brown Company,
with a capital stock of $500,000.00. Mr. Brown
a‘nd his associate, T. H. Baker, are vice-presi­
dents o f the new company, while T. W. Lewis of
Helena is president. Mr. Brown also retains his
interest in the E. M. Corbett Company of Mem­
phis, cotton linters, recently organized, o f which
he is vice-president, while Mr. Baker is president.
Palmer Brown entered the oil mill business as
an office boy with the old Mississippi Cotton Oil
Company at Meridian, Mississippi about twentyone years ago, before it was taken over by the
American Cotton Oil Company.
He was con­
tinuously with the American until that com­
pany’s retirement and liquidation three years
ago.
His advancement had been through all
grades of service, until from the management
o f one mill and then a group o f mills, he was
promoted to the assistant district management
at Memphis and was then made district man­
ager. When the American went out of buisenss,
Mr. Brown bought its surplus machinery and
equipment at Memphis and it several other
points and its old refinery property on the river
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front, negotiated fo r the liquidators o f the com­
pany the sale o f a number o f its plants, and
engaged in a successful mill supply business.
He also purchased the A m erican’s mill at Tren­
ton, Tennessee, which, as the Trenton Cotton Oil
Company, is being successfully opei^ted under
his presidency.
In the reorganization o f the International Veg­
etable Oil Company, W. W . Banks and J. W.
Conway, form er controlling factors in the board,
have retired, and with the exception o f Chair­
man Brown and President Lamar, the board is
now composed o f bankers who hold the entire
stock control. The company has resumed direct
operations o f its refineries at Savannah and At­
lanta, which fo r several years have been man­
aged, under contract, by John Aspegren, re­
cently deceased. Its crude mill properties, all
in active operation this season, are at Arlington,
Ga., (3 presses) ; Augusta, Ga., (8 presses) ;
Savannah, Ga., (8 presses) ; T ifton, Ga., (8
presses) ; Raleigh, N. C., (6 presses) ; Dallas,
Texas, (6 presses) ; Houston, Texas, (6 p resses);
The Atlanta refinery includes the lard plant
where the popular Cotton Bloom is produced.
— The Cotton Oil Press.
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N E W S OF THE OIL MILLING I N D U S T R Y
Information has just been received that Mr.
J. B. Spears of Spears and Company o f El Paso,
Texas has just placed an order with the Western
Engineering Company of Dallas for ten 1925
model Anderson Expellers complete with tem­
pering apparatus, individual feeders and all
pumps. Each expeller is equipped with electric
motor and silent chain drive. These expellers
are being installed as received, the first carload
having already arrived.
The expellers are to
increase the capacity o f the new four expeller
mill which Spears and Company put in operation
the early part of last year, and will give them
a fourteen speller crushing capacity fo r the com­
ing season. This will be approxim ately 100 tons
fo r each 24 hours.
This will give them one
o f the most up-to-date cottonseed oil mills in the
state and will enable them to work seed at the
very lowest possible cost.
J. B. Spears, owner of Spears and Company, is
an experienced oil mill operator, being at one
time part owner o f two hydraulic mills, one of
which was located at El Centro, California; at
the same time being part owner o f an Anderson
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fou r expeller mill located at Calerico, California,
which was afterw ards moved into Mexico.
Mr. B. B. McCall who built the fou r expeller
mill in Santa Anna, Senoria, Mexico, has sold
all of his interest in that mill, it now being under
the management o f Mr. Geo. A. Roach, formerly
connected with the California Cotton Oil Com­
pany o f Los Angeles, California.
Mr. S. O. W om ack, for the past several years
manager o f the Mill Supply Department of the
Murray Company of Dallas, Texas, recently re­
signed his position with that company to accept
the position of sales manager with the Hercules
Supply Company, which has established head­
quarters in the new Santa Fe building in Dallas.
This company is an independent oil mill supply
company with branches in important oil centers
throughout the state. Plans are being made to
enter the general supply business on a large
scale in Texas territory.
Mr. A. W. Smith, for the past several years
city salesman of the Murray Company, has been
appointed to fill the vacancy ceated by the resig­
nation o f Mr. Womack.
February, 1925
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GAZETTEER
Mr. L. P. Brown, Jr., o f Memphis, Tennessee,
has been elected chairman of the board of di­
rectors of the International Vegetable Oil Com­
pany by banking interests of New York and
Boston, who are interested in the organization.
Mr. Brown will continue his interest in the cot­
tonseed oil mill machinery supply business, which
he established in Memphis a few years ago
under the name o f L. P. Brown Company, but
which has recently been merged with the Lewis
Mill Supply Company o f Helena, Ark. The new
company is now incorporated as the LewisBrown Corporation, with a capital of $500,000.00
The La Occidental, Gandalajara, Mexico, are
now installing an Anderson Expeller for the
working of coquito, corpra and other oil bearing
seeds.
Mr. Emery, vice president o f the Western En­
gineering Company o f Dallas, is at present i n .
the east, visiting various factories of their con­
nection, with the idea o f making some new ar­
rangements for the expansion of their operations
in Texas territory.
Mr. Cecil Earp was caught in a belt at the
Luttrell and Keeny Gin at Bronto, Texas, and
died from injuries received.
On the night of January 27th fire damaged
the Palestine Oil and Manufacturing plant to
the extent o f $5,000.00. A cottonseed house and
its contents and a cottonseed conveyor were des­
troyed. The plant will be out o f commission for
a few days.
Dallas, Texas, January 27th, 1925.
H. E. Wilson, Manager
Peoples Cotton Oil Company,
Wharton, Texas.
Dear Mr. W ilson:
We appreciate the many kind experssions of
approval of the efforts o f the service bureau.
Every effort possible has been made to legit­
imately serve the mills in the distribution o f
bagging and ties, press cloth, fuel oil and other
supplies used.
W ith our force, however, we
have been unable to give you the best results.
We take pleasure in advising that we have
associated with us Mr. Charles Guthrie, who
will devote his entire time to serving the mills
in such distribution, and feel that both the
mills and the bureau will be mutually benefitted,
Mr. Guthrie and this office will appreciate the
opportunity to serve you at any time— day or
night— and Mr. Guthrie will see you in the near
future.
Again thanking you for your expressions of
approval of our efforts and wishing for you a
prosperous year ahead, we are, yours truly,
Woodall & Pendleton.
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NO EXCESS SUPPLY OF COTTONSEED CAKE
AND MEAL
Memphis, Tennessee, Jan. 29— The total con­
sumption o f cake and meal, August to December,
1924, was 1,036,921 tons against 744,426 tons
for the same period last year, an increase in
consumption o f 292,495 tons or nearly 40 per
cent.
The total stock of cake -and meal on hand at
December 31, 1924 was only 166,000 tons, or
52,000 tons less than last year— and this with
an increase in production o f 27 per cent.
The situation with reference to immediate
supply, especially in Oklahoma and Texas, is
interesting. The reports show only 33,700 tons
of cake and meal on hand at Demecber 31, and
production for the period of 513,000 tons—
about 93 per cent o f the production having been
shipped. Convincing evidence o f the keen de­
mand in the West for quick shipments.
In other states, notably Louisiana, stocks are
also depleted.
Exports of cake and meal are heavy and show
a most substantial increase over last year, being
255,486 tons to December 31, against 69,572
•tons on the same date last years— an increase
of 185,914 tons.
The small stocks on hand show that meal is
going into consumption at a rapid rate. There
is no indication o f falling o ff in exports, the
clearance for December being about the same
as November. The domestic consumption for
November-December is far ahead o f last year.
Grains and feed stuffs generally are advancing.
Linseed meal is selling in the northwest at
about 50c per unit o f protein higher than cotton­
seed meal. Nitrates are high and advancing.
Cottonseed meal is, by far, the cheapest
feeding concentrate obtainable. The market is
under current cost of production.
There is no excess supply of cake and meal
this season and if the good export demand con­
tinues, it would not be surprising to find an
actual shortage of supply before the new crop
is available.
All conditions, statistical and commercial,
point to higher prices.— National Cottonseed
Products Corporation.
Copra production increasing somewhat first
two weeks in January as anticipated, reports
Edwin B. George to the department o f commerce.
Prices eased off.
Provincial buying now on
basis of pesos fourteen fifty per picul for rececado. Mills have been buying sparingly in e ffort
to aid downward price trend, but now appear to
be gradually increasing purchase.
Production
declining again and market undertone firm.
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GAZETTEER
February, 1925
O il M ill G a z e t t e e r
earlier in the month.
This is the final time.
We are not going to wait on him after this.
Official Organ o f the National Oil Mill Superintendents
Association. Published monthly by the Wharton Spec­
tator Printing Company, at Wharton, Texas.
You will all remember Mr. L. P. Brown who
was so active in seeing that everyone had a good
time last year at Memphis. W e carry an item
concerning his appointment to direct the af­
fairs o f one of the largest companies in the busi­
ness. W e can wish fo r nothing but success for
Mr. Brown in his new position, and the company
which has secured his services is to be congrat­
ulated upon their selection.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at
Wharton, Texas, under act o f Congress o f March, 1879.
H.
E.
W ILSON..............................................................EDITOR
Subscription $1.00 per year.
Single copy 10c
NOTICE TO A L L A D V E R T ISE R S — Our press
day is the tenth (10th) o f the month, and your
changes o f copy should be in the hands o f the
editor thirty (3 0 ), days in advance o f the date
o f publication. Please take notice o f this, and
hereafter have all changes o f copy in on the 10th
o f the month preceeding the month o f publica­
tion.
O fficers o f the National Oil Mill Superintendents A ss’n.
A . J. LURRY, Baton Rouge, La.................. .-.President
C. S. M cKINLEY, Ada, Okla.............. ....Vice President
F. P. MORRIS, Purcell, Okla...... Secretary and Treasurer
State Vice
Presidents
A RK AN SA S, L. O. Rucker.................................Blytheville
A LA B A M A , P. Z. Harllee------------------------ Birmingham
MISSISSIPPI, T. J. M cNulty............................ Brookhaven
OKLAHOMA, P. C. F itz......................... ....... ....Anadarko
LOUISIANA, J. A . Stuart............ b.......................... .....Arcadia
TENNESSEE, J. J. Finch.................. ...................... Memphis
TE X A S, M. C. Dimphl................................. ....................Dallas
We have been pleading with the membership
for the past few months to write something fo r
the Gazetteer each month, and we noticed that
the president and secretary both made earnest
pleas for opinions on the convention and program
for this month's issue. The only communication
we have this month besides the president’s call
for the convention has nothing to say about the
program or the convention. W e are going to
press on schedule time from now on if we have
to go to press with nothing but reprint.
The publisher has served notice on us that he
must have copy early in the month so that he
can get the Gazetteer out without interrupting
his other publications and work. Fellows, we
have done our best to get you to respond, and
we are now leaving it up to you entirely.
President Lurry did not get his call in until
late this month or we would have gone to press
The Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Associa­
tion will hold their annual convention in New
Orleans May 13th, 14th and 15th, with the rules
committee m eeting tw o days in advance. Head­
quarters will be established at the Roosevelt
Hotel. This convention should be attended by
every cotton oil man in the country.
Sam Horton, 60 years old, was crushed to
death December 4t!i at the cotton oil mill at
Durant, Oklahoma, when his clothes caught in
a belt and he was drawn into the machinery.
The body was badly mangled. He had been an
employe of this oil mill fo r many years. He
leaves a w ife and three children.
Through a book found on the body o f a man
who died from suffocation in the seed house of
the Southland Cotton Oil Company in Bossier
City, La., early m orning Decem ber 24th, he was
identified as John Lynch, -a railroad man o f 2414
Hattie Street, Chicago, Illinois. A message was
received stating that he was an employe of the
Kansas City Terminal Company in Chicago.
Fire starting from friction in a seed conveyor
did $15,000 damage to the Kerens Cotton Oil
Mill at 5 o’clock the m orning o f Decem ber 30th.
The loss was fully covered by insurance. The
hull house with 500 tons o f hulls, 125 tons of fertilizer and two box cars belonging to the Cotton
Belt Railroad were totally destroyed. The Cot­
ton Oil Company has already begun work of
clearing away the ashes, and will begin rebuilding
immediately.
This is their second loss this
year.
February, 1925
OIL
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GAZETTEER
PROCTOR AND GAMBLE REPRESENTATIVE
DELIVERS SEVENTH OF COURSE
OF COTTON SEED LECTURES
The origin of soap stock and the process of
manufacture were topics explained by J. E.
Pruden of the Proctor and Gamble Company of
Dallas in the seventh o f lectures given under
the auspices of the Texas Cotton Seed Crushers
Association, to the students of chemical and
mechanical engineering.
The tallow is imported from Argentine and
contains sheep fat in mixture with it; vegetable
tallow from China where it is obtained from a
bean about the size of the coffee bean, cocoanut oil mostly from the Orient; whale oil, mostly
from south of Cape Horn, the industry having
shifted there from Greenland and N orway;
fish oil from our own coast fisheries; palm oil
from the Congo in A frica ; rosin from southern
and southeastern sta tes; perfume oils from
France, Italy, Bulgaria, Persia and some from
the United States.
Very little animal fa t is now used in soap
making but a great percentage of soap is made
from cotton seed oil residue obtained in the
refining of cotton seed oil to make cooking oil
and lard compounds.
Thus the soap making
industry is world wide, depending upon sup­
plies from all parts o f the globe.
Refining of this oil to remove color and odor
is a chemical treatment. Factors controlling the
value of the various oils are color and odor.
Those with the clearest color and most nearly
odorless being the highest in price.
There are two processes in use in soap manu­
facture— hot and cold. The chemical reactions
are the same but in the cold process the gly­
cerine and impurities are not removed. This
necessitates high grade materials as raw stock.
In the cold process the caustic soda and soap
stock is run into a m ixer and thoroughly mixed,
then dropped into fram es to complete saponifi­
cation. From this point the process is the
same for all soaps.
In the hot process the caustic and soap stock
are boiled until the fat is all saponified. It is
then grained with salt. The impurities and gly­
cerine fall to the bottom and are drawn o ff. The
soap is washed several times and then dropped
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into a mixer known as a crutcher, where it is
thoroughly mixed with fillers, perfumes and air,
and then poured into frames.
A fter cooling it is cut into bars o f proper size,
dried, stamped with name of the soap and is
wrapped and stored or shipped.
A new commodity on the market is chipped
soap. This is made by pouring the molten soap
onto chilled rolls and solidifying it. It is scrap­
ed o ff and sold as soap flakes.
Powdered soaps are made by pumping the
soap at 180 degrees F. through atomizers into
a large cooling chamber. The atomized soap or
soap mixture cools rapidly and is drawn o ff as
a powder.
To make high grade toilet soaps and medicinal
soaps, the framed soap is pulverized and ground
under incorporating rolls with filler and perfume
or medicine, and forced through a die by an
archimedian screw in a body resembling a sau­
sage machine, known a s 'a plodder. The soap
comes from the plodder in a continuous stream
resembling a sausage. It is cut into desired
sizes, stamped, wrapped and packed in special
containers.
The glycerine is recovered from the lyes by
partial evaporation. The impure glycerine from
the evaporators is redistilled and the purified
glycerine sold to explosive manufacturers or to
druggists.
ARCADIA MOURNS THE PASSING OF JAMES
STEWART
We have been advised of the death of James
Stewart, son of Mr. J. A. Stewart, vice president
of the association in Louisiana. The association,
as well as the Gazetteer, extends to Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart their most profound sympathy in this,
their great loss, in the death of their noble son.
The Ft. Worth Laboratories
Consulting, A n a ly tic a l Chemists and chemi­
cal Engineers. Chemistry applied to all phases
of Manufacturing. Cotton seed products, fuel,
Water feeds our Specialty.
F. B. PORTER, B. S., Ch. E., Pres.
281-2 Monroe St.
R E P A IR
FT. W ORTH, T E X AS
WORK.
Rewinding, Repairing, Rebuilding Dynamos, Motors and Linter Magnets
Direct or Alternating Current
H ou ston A rm atu re W o rK s
No. 4 Preston Ave., Houston, Texas
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Below is reprinted an article taken from the
local paper:
The entire community was very much shock­
ed and grieved when it was learned that one
o f our most promising young boys, James Stew­
art, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stew­
art, and whose entire life had been spent in
Arcadia, passed away late Tuesday afternoon
at the Highland Sanitarium, where he had been
carried a week before. He was accompanied by
his parents who were with him at the time of
his death. James had suffered a combination
o f throat and ear trouble, but was feeling much
better and wanted to return to school, when he
was stricken violently ill and did not regain con­
sciousness before he was taken to the sanitarium.
The remains arrived in Arcadia at 10:30 o ’clock
Wednesday morning, and the funeral service was
held at the First Methodist church at 3:00 p. m.
Rev. H. W. Ledbetter officiated. The school was
dismissed for the afternoon, and the church was
filled to capacity with the friends o f the family.
James was loved by his teachers in the school
and held in the highest esteem by his school­
mates and companions.
He was a consistent
member o f the Methodist church, the Epworth
League and the Sunday school, and fo r several
years he was a real Boy Scout, always counting
it a great pleasure to do a kindly deed fo r some­
one each day. ******
LINK-BELT PUTS OUT NEW MALLE­
ABLE IRON SAFETY COLLAR
It is estimated that ten per cent of the power
generated in the average industrial plant is
wasted between the generator and the consum­
ing machine. Attention to this loss of power
has given rise to changes in power transmission
equipment and the development o f more efficient
mechanical means.
One o f the most recent developments along
this line comes from the Link-Belt Company
of Indianapolis— the device illustrated by the
accompanying photographic reproduction. This
new safety collar is intended to maintain the
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February, 1925
proper alignment o f such equipment as pulleys,
shaft bearings, hangers, etc.
Great strength, toughness, durability, and
light weight have all been incorporated in this
new Malleable Iron Safety Collar, in addition
to which, a new design which perm its the collar
to be split in tw o places, thus a fford in g ready
and economical installation or adjustm ent. This
type o f collar, however, is made also in the solid
ring type, both types being accurately machine
finished, assuring a tight fit and a pleasing
appearance.
Exhaustive tests made with the Link-Belt
Safety Collar have proven it to be impervious to
shocks and strains encountered in heavy duty
service. The material o f which it is made pos­
sesses unusual wear and rust resisting qualities.
This extends its sphere o f usefulness to installa­
tions where the atm ospheric conditions contrib­
ute to rust or excessive abrasiveness. The set
screw, by which the collar is firm ly a ffixed to
the shaft, is flange protected.
As with the recently “ K ex-T op” grease cup,
the Link-Belt Malleable Iron S afety Collar will
be marketed through dealers located throughout
the country, thereby assuring prom pt service
and shipment.
COTTON OIL FUTURE TRADING
The Interstate A ssociation’ s special trading
committee appointed fo r the purpose, held a
conference with a similar com m ittee o f the New
York Produce Exchange in that city January 21
and 22 and discussed all o f the suggested
changes in deliveries under future contracts on
the exchange from barrel to bulk basis and
from “ P. S. Y .” to “ P. S. Y. deodorized,” with
delivery acceptable at certain specified Southern
trade centers.
No definite conclusions were
reached, although a unanimous desire was ex­
pressed fo r some sort o f broadening of the
cotton oil future market. The Interstate com­
mittee consists o f Ed. W oodall, chairman, F. W.
McKee, Geo. W. Covington, F. N. Bridges and
Louis Rosenstein, all o f whom were present.Through the courtesy o f the Houston, Labora­
tories, P. S. Tilson, Chem ist, Houston, Texas,
the Southwestern Laboratories o f F ort Worth
and Dallas, Texas, wish to announce the estab­
lishment o f a branch o ffice and physical test­
ing laboratory in Houston, using the office and
laboratory facilities 215 1-2 Main Street, Hous­
ton, Texas, with Mr. H. B. Clay in charge. This
arrangement a ffects neither the ownership,
management nor operation o f the Houston La­
boratories, who will continue as analytical and
consulting chemists.
February, 1925
OIL
MILL
FIGHTING THE “BOLL WEEVIL” OUT OF
THE OLIVE GROVES
Cotton growers are not alone in having to com­
bat an insect, the pernicious ravages o f which
threaten to destroy the entire crops of sections
worst affected.
The olive growers o f Spain, Italy, France,
Anatolia and the Mediterranean Basin in general
must fight the “ dacus” or olive tree fly. This
dread insect bites the olives before maturity in
order to put its eggs inside. The larvae which
develops therein upon maturity devour the flesh
of the olive. The affected olives fall and those
remaining on the tree yield an oil of inferior
quality. But just as it has been possible to
hold back the boll weevil as proven by the fact
that Texas has gone on making cotton for 20
years in the face o f boll weevil infestation and as
growers in other state sare learning they in turn
can do it, it is possible to figh t the dacus.
In France and Italy the dacus is combated by
whitewashing with a 50 per cent solution of
sulphate o f iron or with a solution of black soap
in petroleum in the proportion o f one kilogram
of soap per litre o f peroleum.
A very efficacious process has been demon­
strated in Italy these last few years and applied
in Greece with much success. It consists of
spraying the olives with a solution o f 200 iltres
of water, 18 kilograms of cane molasses and
575 grams of sodium arsenate. The dacus likes
sweets and in gnawing the sprayed olive meets
its death poisoned by the solution.
The dacus lays several times a year and mul­
tiplies with an extreme rapidity. It is beginning
to be a veritable curse fo r Anatolia and its rav­
ages are great, especially in the region of Avivalik-Edremid.
The hard, dry winters are unfavorable to it,
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the insect preserving itself well during warm,
damp winter weather.
In certain regions of Greece the output of
large expanses of olive groves has been saved
by a methodic struggle against the dacus and
the population has proposed to submit a new
tax to permit the intervention of the state in this
struggle.
Statements to the effect that the olive oil
fly is doing this or that must be weighed in
connection with the knowledge that there is a
definite means of fighting this pest and that
the growers do not sit down supinely and wait
for it to gobble all of their olives up.
A MAN’ S JOB
A man’s job is his best friend. It clothes
and feeds his wife and children, pay the rent
and supplies them with the wherewithal to de­
velop and become cultivated. The least a man
can do in return is to love his job. A man’s
job is grateful. It is like a little garden that
thrives on love. It will one day flower into fruit
worth while, for him and his to enjoy. If you
ask any successful business man the reason for
his making good, he will tell you it is because
he likes his work; indeed, he loves it.
His
whole heart and soul are wrapped up in it. His
whole physical and mental energies are wrapped
up in it and focused on it. He walks his w ork;
he talks his work; he is entirely inseperable
from his work, and that is the way every man
worth his salt ought to be if he wants to make
o f his work what it should be and make o f
himself what he wants to be.— Senator Arthur
Capper.
Mr. M. Helmick, form erly manager of the
Hunt County Oil Mill, died on December 17th at
a Dallas sanitarium after a lingering illness.
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MILL
THE COMING ANNUAL CONVENTION
The Cotton Oil Press says as the time ap­
proaches for the annual convention o f the In­
terstate Cottonseed Crushers Association, it will
be well for chairmen o f committees to consider
their official reports and plan their own meet­
ings preliminary to the convention session. Mem­
bers are requested to send to Chairman Jno. W.
Todd o f the Rules Committee such changes in the
trading rules as they have in miwd to propose.
The executive committee will meet at an early
date and decide upon time and place for the
convention. It looks like a favorable year for
a big attendance, and that should also mean
favorable conditions fo r a real progressive
convention.
WHERE ARE THE SOYA BEAN MILLS?
A firm interested in the purchase o f soya
bean oil recently endeavored to augment its
meager list o f soya bean mills— not more than
three or four— from whom they m ight secure
domestic produced soya bean oil.
Their inquiry failed to reveal any new names
of producing mills.
An examination o f the bureau o f the census
records supplies immediate explanation for this
circumstance. There is virtually no soya bean
oil produced in the United States.
For the quarter ending September 30th, 1924,
the last report available, the census report shows
the stupendous volume o f twelve thousand, nine
hundred and fifty-eigh t pounds o f soya bean
oil having been produced during that quarter.
What a showing for those gentlemen who assur­
ed congress when the T ariff Act of 1922 was
passed that if it would only let them butcher
the welfare o f the industries which were using
Oriental soya bean oil that they would guarantee
a home grown stock of soya bean oil. They
stated that the farm ers would grow soya beans
for their oil producing qualities.
These gentlemen, of course, had not the most
rudimentary knowledge o f economics. All they
knew was that soya beans were grown in the
United States. They did not stop to ascertain
for what purpose they were grown and are still
grow n; to-wit, for feeding,purposes.
Walter Relf, unmarried and world war vet­
eran, employed at the Temple Cotton Oil Mill,
died instantly in an accident here. Relf was
employed in the lint, room and attending the
cotton press. Trouble developing with the lat­
ter, lie went down into a small basement under­
neath the press, to make adjustments. Not re­
turning, a fellow workman went after him. Relf
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was found lying dead on the floor with his skull
crushed and one side o f his face caved in.
It is believed that he became entangled in some
belting and was whirled around with great
speed and hurled with terrific violence against
the concrete wall.
ARMY
COOKS
TAKE UP
PROBLEM
SOAP
MAKING
A rm y cooks in the New England area will
study methods o f making soap in accordance
with orders received from the W ar Department.
The department has also ordered a reduction
o f 25 per cent in the allowance o f soap to each
soldier in the New England area, recommending
that the lack be made up by soap made from
kitchen waste. The use o f soap fo r washing win.
dows is prohibited.
Kerosene is to be used
instead.
FLEXCO GUARDS REVISED
The F L E X C O -F L E X C O -L O K line o f expanded
metal lamp guards has ju st been thoroughly re­
vised and greatly simplified.
In such manner
has this been done that all ordinary conditions
o f service are provided fo r in the present thirtyfour numbers.
The lines now give a choice o f key locking or
screw locking guards, in usual standard brass
and w eatherproof sizes. Both types are made in
regular and reflector styles. There is a locking
or plain guard fo r mill type lamps in four socket
sizes. Also the F LE XC O portable guard is made
fo r both types o f sockets and in regular, reflector
and mill types.
This would seem to sim plify the problem of
stocking and supplying guards as compared with
the more numerous numbers previously supplied.
These guards are the products o f the Flexible
Steel Lacing Company o f Chicago.