Cotton seed oil is a byproduct of the ginning of cotton. This process is sometimes referred to as "oil milling." The ginning of cotton is an involved process, because almost all of what is picked from the bush is used for something. The seed is separated from the lint, and the cotton is used for various things that most of us know about. The process of what is done with the seed is called "oil milling." The seed is ginned again and the lint they get from this second ginning is called "linters." This "linters" is used to make cheap stuffing for upholstery, mattresses, pillows, padding for hot pads and gloves. The seed is hulled and it is used in cow feed for roughage just as peanut and soybean hulls are used. The hulled seed are then heated to a certain temperature and the oil is pressed out of them. The residue is pressed into a hard thin cotton meal cake that is reground to make cotton seed meal. Some cotton seed meal cakes are made as large as 2 x 3 feet and are used to feed catfish in ponds and to illegally bait inlets and rivers by fishermen to catch catfish. Some of the above information I knew but I called an older friend, Austin Morris, an onion farmer, and he told me about the hulling and pressing of the meal. He had seen the operation as a young boy. There used to be an oil mill in our town but it is no longer in operation. If I can get permission of the owners and the old equipment is still in the old building, I will make some pictures for us. betty in ga