Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-07-16
ABOUT coo-L,vER OIL.


cod-liver oil usually adulterated
withP'
'-Cotton-seed oil Is more used than
any other ingredient, as 1t Is compar-
atively harmless and costs only about
one-quarter as much as the genuine
cod-liver oil. There may be other oils
used, but If 80 do not know what
they are The largest quantities of
cod-liver oil in bulk are shipped di-
rect from the Down East fishing ports
to Now Yo.k."
A Brooklyn manufacturer OF pure
cod-liver oil gave the reporter many
interesting facts concerning it.
The great trouble in getting pure
cod-liver OIL" said he, lis that the
fishermen on the Grand Banks are
careless and throw diseased ivers
right in with the healthy ones. 1t is
a well-known fact that the dogfish, by
its bite or by a thrust of the
sharp bone needle which, like q
lancet, lies concealed just back
of its dorsal fin, can poison a cod
80 that its liver becomes putri-
fed and the fish eventually dies. The
fishermen make no distinction be-
tween these diseased livers and those
taken from a healthy fish. All GO into
the tubs together, and one diseased
liver is enough 10 poison a whole cask
OF good ones. Moreover, every thing
Is fish that comes to their net, and
they have no scruples against throw
ing dog-fish, paddock and all sorts Of
fish livers that have any oil in them
right in with the cod livers and trying
them all out together"
icinal purposesp"
Il suppose it Is, although can not
imagine how any refining process can
make it fit for marketable purposes. ]
know that the pure oil Is adulterated,
for one man who bought three barrels
of pure oil from me at $3.50 a gallon
made ten barrels OF adulterated stuff
out of it, for which he obtained six
dollars gallon"
"What did he use to adulterate II
WITH"
II can't cay, for he didn't tell mo.
but suppose it was cotton-seed oil.
That is most generally used by men
who wish to cheat for its presence is
very difficult of detection. All such
authorizations arc, of course, a swim
die, but question if they do as much
harm as the genuine article, resulting
from the trying out of good and dis
eased livers mixed together"
How do you manage to get fresh.
clean livers?"
''All Of the livers used by me care
fully select from the fish brought di.
rectly to the New York docks by the
local fishing feet. AS the livers are
taken out and cleaned inspect them
to see that mono but healthy ones gel
into my barrels. A healthy Gods
liver is plump and white, while those
that have been poisoned by the dog.
fish-which, by the way, is the cod q
natural enemy - are yellow and
tlabby."
"How do you try out your oilP"
Tho process is exceedingly sim.
pie. The livers are thrown into 9
clean tub, which is filled about two
thirds full A steam pipe is connect
ed and run down into T., mess. The
steam is then turned on, and, in few
minutes. the oil rises to the surface
clean and sweet, but crude. 1t is then
skinned of and put into another re-
ceptacle, whore 1t runs down through
seven or eight closely-woven silk
strainers into q cask. When Il
reaches the cask 1t is thoroughly free
from all impurities and perfectly pure
In this condition 1t will keep fol
years without changing in the least
The pure article does not fiuctuate In
price to any extent, whereas the i'm
pure and adulterated oil may be haG
at varying prices. according to it,
meannoss. brooklyn Eagle. ..