Since the seed is bulky and the cost of transportation is correspondingly high, there are many small cottonseed oil mills rather than a few large ones.

Texas is the leader in this industry, with Georgia next, though oil mills are to be found in all the cotton States, and the value of the seed adds considerably to the income of every cotton grower.

In 1914 the value of cottonseed products was $212,000,000.
The industry of making fertilizer depends largely upon cottonseed meal.
More than a hundred oil mills have fertilizer departments.

The phosphate deposits of the South Atlantic States are also important, and the fertilizer industry is showing more and more a tendency to become sectional.

Georgia easily leads, Maryland is second, and no Northern State ranks higher than seventh.
From the standpoint of values lumbering is a more important industry than the manufacture of fertilizers.