The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-08-09
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THE USE OF COTTON SEED oil As
FOOD.
now i Came Into General Use and Why Il
Gained In PopuIarity...It Is Safe
and Wholesome.

From the earliest Bible times to tho
present day nations OF the countries
surrounding tho Mediterranean have
MADE the oil of the olive one of their
Principai articles OF diet. 1t is used In
an cooking operations and replaces the
Dutter and lard OF the nations i'm north
crn Europe. There is no question but
What pure vegetable oil is a most
useIui and healthy article or diet. We
never read OF dyspepsia and troubles
OF similar nature among the people
OF the Levant, doubtless because the
lae taken as a necessary part OF a we'll
regulated diet is always taken as a
pure vegetable oil. In our own coun-
try up to within the last few years
oil has been used but little as an ar
tlcle or diet, except by Europeans who
nave made their homes in our midst
we nave chung to the traditions OF our
saxon ancestors and used the hard fats
prepared from hogs and cattle. Tho
people or this country are beginning to
reaiize their mistake. Throughout our
Southern states we have trees, small
IL Is .rue' out great in numbers, which
produce fruit far moro wonderful
than the olive, we refer to our cotton
plant. Its fiber clothes the world, II.
SEED yields an oil which is unrivaled
IN sweetness and purity by the finest
product or the pressed olive.
Cotton seed oil was refined in small
quantities prior to the Civil war. It
iound Its way to Europe and came back
IN FANCY bottles mixed with olive Oil.
In the early sos the production OF the
oil Increased rapidly. Great quantities
nnding their way to Chicago in mys-
teriously marked packages the contents
or which properly blended with other
material, travelled all over the world in
the form OF lard. y,
About the year 1887 IL was discovered
that the amount of lard shipped from
Chicago greatly exceeded the weight
oI az the hogs received and an inves-
ugation was instituted by Congress
which brought forth the Information
that the product of the cotton seed was
entirely unobjectionable as an article
or diet and liable to be preferred by
many to that Of the hog. For various
reasons our people have always been
pre1udiced against the oil itself, though
eating large quantities OF it in the
form of lard compound. This prefu-
dice Is no doubt largely due to the
taulty refining methods used by many
OF the manufacturers who turned out
an oil OF unpleasant flavor which gave
or very disagreeable odors in cooking.
Modern science has shed its rays on
this great product OF our section and
the oil is now produced in enormous
quantities, absolutely free from odor
and flavor and almost colorless. Shipped
In barrels 1T finds its way into the larG-
est bake shops OF the country, where
1t takes the place OF many tons OF lard
and butter Packed in hermiticany
our best families. 1t is making friends
everywhere. The greatly extended use
OF cotton seed oil in the household has
added greatly to the wealth OF our farm
ers by making a sure market for all
the seed which they can produce. This
rapid increase in the use Of the oil has
only been made possible by improved
refining methods which were the re-
suits of long. patient and expensive ex-
perinents by the leading company in
the business. Such experiments could
only be made by the combined re-
sources centered in a large corporation
which can command the needed brains
and materials and furnish the neces-
sary money outlay to conduct expen-
sive experiments on q practical scale
The farmer Of the south has no better
friend than the large companies who
are daily striving to improve the prod
uct of his cotton seed and extend the
use Of cotton seed oil as a food product
and the most successful of these com
panies In the manufacture OF these
products is the Southern Cotton Oil
Company, whose works are at Sayan-
nah, Ga, and who have hen<iouarters
and general offices in Columbia. 8. e..
Savannah, Ca, Atlanta. Ga, ana char,
lotte. N. c., any of which will gladly
furnish information.