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Nature put soft tufts of fibre on cotton seeds so that the wind would carry them away from the plant to take root. Man came to attach more importance to the fibre than to the seeds, cultivated cotton for more fibre. The U. S. now raises too much cotton lint, not enough cottonseed.* But there is no economic reason for not raising cotton as a seed crop, since cottonseed oil makes oleomargarine, shortening, soap, and the cottonseed cake which remains after the oil is squeezed out makes good fodder for cattle...
...difficulty remains. When the seed-filled bolls open, the seeds, having no lint to hold them, fall out and are lost. Texas A. & M.'s next step, therefore, is to keep the bolls from opening by further crossbreeding. Since nonopening types of cotton already exist, the scientists believe they can soon turn the trick. Such a plant should be in great demand among smart cotton planters because: 1) instead of having to be ginned, it could be cheaply threshed and harvested like any small grain; 2) there would be no cotton fibre to swell the two-year glut already...
...thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel Hoerner died, doctors knew that an epidemic of trichinosis had befallen the huge household. The sausages taken from their North Dakota home contained embryos of the lint-like worms, one-eighth of an inch long, which cause this widespread (17,000,-ooo estimated U. S. victims), occasionally painful and exhausting, although seldom fatal disease. Cooking the sausages well would kill the embryos and prevent infection. But Mrs. Hoerner and neighbors who came in to help...
Weeks ago, foreseeing a shortage in good grades of spot cotton, Tullis, Craig started to buy December contracts, which are contracts calling for delivery in that month. In the normal course of trading on a cotton futures market, little if any lint is actually delivered. Those who sold cotton short either as a hedge or as a speculation simply buy back their contracts, bringing everybody out even without the bother of handling the staple at all. Messrs. Tullis & Craig, however, demanded real cotton. This they had a perfect right to do, but when the word first spread through the trade...
...Houston firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co. Up to the very deadline last week it was hoped by others who were pinched that somehow, somewhere, Will Clayton might use his vast resources to extricate them from their fix. But in the end Mr. Clayton sent over some of his best lint, which Messrs. Tullis & Craig promptly sold at a handsome profit...