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Show COTTON STALKS HAVE VALUE Hitherto Regarded as Waste, They Are to Be Turned Into a Marketable Market-able Commodity. Considering the fact that In the neighborhood of 75,000,000 tons of cotton stalks have been destroyed annually an-nually as worthless and only In the way, the possibilities of a plant capable capa-ble of converting them Into paper and artificial silk are readily comprehended. comprehend-ed. A plant is now being erected at Greenwood, Miss., which will be devoted de-voted to the preparation of pulp from cotton stalks, and it is said that owing to the stronger fibers of the cotton stalk pulp, paper manufactured from it is considerably stronger In proportion propor-tion to its thickness and weight than that produced from the usual wood pulp. It has been the custom to cut and burn the stalks, after the cotton-picking cotton-picking season has ended, at a cost of about a dollar a ton. The use of cotton cot-ton pulp is not limited to the making of paper. The stalk fibers have been found capable of withstanding the nitrating ni-trating process involved In the making mak-ing of gun-cotton. The fibers also produce an artificial silk, motion-picture films, and such chemicals as py-roxilene, py-roxilene, alcohol and acetone. |