The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-20

not journals, Tor electric insulation, 1t
has proven superior to any other. 1t is
used extensively for shortening bread,
frying meats for table purposes. 1t is
consumed in large quantities by soap
manufacturers, in making a mum
berless variety of soaps, toilet and
laundry. 1t is being employed most
extensively at this time in Europe, in
the manufacture of butterine, because
of the superiority of the American oil
to that we find in England and France
which comes from seed exported from
Egypt. The oil is bleached to sum
mer white, the former being strained
so as not to chill in winter. The winter
white is the staple salad oil, and is ex-
tensively used for that purpose even in
the land of the olive Druggists en-
ploy it as a vehicle in the preparation
Of 1iniments and salves It is used by
miners in their lamps. 1t has also been
found very valuable as a preserver of
wood in certain uses by saturation,
and for tempering steel. In the latter
instance it is used with the grea" est de-
gree of satisfaction in the manufacture
Cf springs of all kinds. Machiuists use
it for lubric .ting while cutting threads
and bolts. The residue OF the refining
process is sold for soap stock. From
the stalk is manufactured writing and
wrapping paper. Also bagging for
covering the cotton bales, and this is
said to be superior for this use to the
bags made of jute DR.. Davis, of South
Carolina, discovered that the seed pos
sesses valuable medical properties. He
found it to be most excellent remedy
for controlling and breaking up chills
and fever and all malariOus ailments.
During the war it was used extensive
ly in the place of quinine to break up
chills and intermittent fevers. The
measure, succeeded olive oil as salad
oil, in some European and South Ameri
can countries. Germany is a large
consumer of this oil In 1892 she i'm
ported 8, 356, $40 gallons of cotton seed
oil, of which 5,993. 776 gallons were
from this country. Sir Samuel Daven
port, who was the Commissioner from
Australia to the Centennial in 1876, is
the owner of the most extensive olive
orchards in that country, said, in a
recent interview: "Since the introduc
tion of American cotton seed oil into
the markets Of the old world, the home
value and consumption of olive oil has
greatly deprecated, and the export
price is constantly on the decline, for
the American oil is equal in every way
as table oil to the olive, and is much
cheaper" A prominent cotton planter
in Louisiana said: GA gentleman in
Texas asked my advice as to the Guilt
vation of the olive in that State for the
oil, as an investment l told him that
the man who wished to make money
out of olive oil had better consider that
he will have to compete with the cot
ton seed oil, as that is now being so
successfully and perfectly refined that
it cannot be distinguished from the
purest olive. 1t is rivalling the lucca
of Italy and the olive of France 1t
can safely be maintained that the
manufacture of cotton seed oil is fast
succeeding all other Industries in the
South, and before long will take the
place of cotton as King"
A Sycamore, Illinois, farmer who
had lost horse and supposed the ami
NAL stolen, found him dead in an old
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