The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-03-27
Aaassapu gatellige,seer,
THE OIL OF THE COTTON SEED.
tie New York Worlt

IGE &1A OE The CUt1UN SEED :
5sIowit Is Made and What It Is Used For.
5 From The Neu York World.
S.. The old, time fight between the manu-
aacturers Of hog lard and cotton seed oil
slard has been renewed at Washington
this session, and during the past week
Representatives Of both interests have
been telling all they know abeut the
s.albisct TO: the House committee on agri.
. culture. AS usual the hog lard men have
I been the aggressors. They caused to be
in1oduced q bill providing for the brand
|! ing upon packages of lard containing
cotton seed oil q statement to that effect,
sand also imposing an internal revenue
sttssxapon the same. Two objects were
sssnuEht By this bill one the injury to
3 che business Of the cotton seed oil men,
which might possibly ensue from the
popular prejudice supposed to exist
ssagainst any but hog lard; and second,
sauchs an increase Of price in the cotton
seed oil product as would make impossi.
Sble the selling Of it for less than the hog
sIToduct.
NE The cotton seed oil lard men met their
ssopponents more than hallway. They ac-
acepteds the proposition that their lard be
! sold for exactly lyswhat it is-a cotton seed
compound but in their bill they also
! provide that packages Of hog lard, when
sadulterated or compounded with other
sub Inces, shall be branded with q
sgnt .dcation to that effect. And, of
! course, they rejected she proposed impost.
Both bills were referred TO the committee
Son agriculture, which has been taking
tsstimeny as to the process Of manufac.
sssure, composition and healthfulness of
the; various kinds Of lard.
As already intimated, the fight is an
Sold sone. It has been. waged on thesame
lines before several State Legislatures and
eg,61gTesaes, and has usually ended in
favor; Of the cotton seed oil lard. But
.sthe5merits of thecase have never been
properly; laid before the people, and the
public has been led to suppose
ssthstsasd desire TO benefit them has swayed
,sthes philanthropic statesmen who have
attempted to abolish, the manufacture Of
cotton: seed oil lard. Meantime the peo.
ssples have; discovered that they are. getting
:Sas better lard than they did when they
were s:restricted to the hog product, and
consequently have not troubled themselves
about the dispute. There has
been 10 public outcry whatever against
the cotton seed oil lard, and the attack
slas come entirely from those interested
ncompeting industries.
is:well that this fact should be borne
8 siinsmind dswhen. the question is considered,
forthelesis is much to be said in favor Of
cotton seed oil lard and against hog lard.
sS Adip5 into the
HBToRY.OFs LARD MANUFACTURE
ID this country will help to elucidate
8 the pointsiin dispute. Animal fats have
always entered largely into the cooking
& Of ftheE Teutonic peoples. Other races
shaye preferred, !, and atill prefer, the vege.
table oils, and the latter seem to be the
q healthier. Certainly it takes a strong
sstomach sto assimilate without qualms
5thes food cooked with pork fat. There is
ga greasiness about such cooking that
articles prepared with vegetable oils are
free from. The natural presumption as
TO bealthiness is also in favor of the
negotiable oils, sipce animals are liable to
diseases, many of which may be trans
smitted to the men swho5feed upon their
) carcssses. The hog il especially liable
to- disease, and lis notoriously uncleanly.
That the Teuton, and especially the,
8 Anglo Saxon, should prefer to use the
j.fat from this animal for cooking seems
almost d reproach until it is remembered
the discovery Of vegetable substitutes
sin the latitudes inhabited by him is
of1ecent date.
the United States hog lard used to
sbe the universal cooking medium, and
when the capacities o; the country 70,
:meat raising began to be availed of it
was natural that lard making should have
4 been undertaken here on an extensive
scale. at first the lard manufactured
here was lard in the strict sense of the
word--Gried out from leaf lard. Then
other fatty portions Of the hog we're
thrown into the rending tanks. In fact,
The! demand in Europe for American lard
always exceeded the quantity available
8 for export, and the temptation to sell hog
4 grease for lard was too great to be resist.
aIed. By and by, when animal oils came
Ito berequired in mechanics, a new avenue
fSof adlltsratiou was opened up.It mas
found that what remained of
animal fats after the oil had
been pressed out of them coald be min
s.gled with lard, and make the compound
harder than the hog grease which was
then generally selling for lard.
Sill later, when imitation butter began
ITO be made and there VAS demand for
Z all the leaf lard that could be got for
.sthis purpose, the lard manufacturers left
lard altogether ont of their product and
gave the hog grease, which they sold as
slard, the necessary frmness by the admix-
sture ofstearine-that is, the product of
beef fat after its oil had been expressed.
Then the final step in the downward
course Of American lard was taken,
through the discovery that by the use Of
{ an alkali lard could be made to incor.
Z sporate about 80 per cent of its bulk in
& water.
Before the introduction of cotton seed
oil American lard had become hyword.