The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-05-20

tna american cotton seed oil, the
olive orchards of Southern Europe
e2egimost been annihilated. This
gf oorse brought great hardship to
shls ssticular industry, especially in
france The French government,
e4lising this fact, felt that some
must be done to save the in
snd has lately imposed an i'm
of something like 10 cents a
!33p { npon American cotton oil
cts so that today the French
s. as almcs. entirely closed to
: y cestpn seed oil business. Other
feses6e countries are doing the same,
sh8f t9eday our exports in tho cot
s61 ~ oil business are almost nil.
s eA incident to the falling off of
= &ereign trade in oil 1 will quote
hsnres. In 1901 Italy took
;,somsshing over 100000 gallons of
qil; now she takes 1 100000 or less.
tastriaAt the same time took about
,090 gallons of oil; now she
kes less than 100000. France
Fosk atxhe same time about 10000
aQ0 gel ns of oil; now about $1,000
600. This leaves a tremendous
amount 70 be absorbed by the United
-statos, as with other countr, ere
Is q ajiks falling off also. Thus it con
easily y<lf seen why it is the Gotten
SEED Gill fis now selling so far below
its usual selling price.
While.thls is great blow at the
cotton SIZED, oil business, our own
country has given the industry its
greatest BLOW: There has been en-
acted lately .by the United States
congress 3 Law taxing cotton seed oil
to the amount of 10 cents per pound
for all on used in the manufacture of
butter. This law was enacted at the
instigation of those in this country
who were in the dairy business. We
have no fight to make with the butter
makers, but would simply say that it
is hard for one to realize why this
prejudice against butter made partly
or entirely Of cotton seed oil. Es.
pecially is this true when the depart
mat of agriculture and chemistry
has repeatedly stated that for purity
and healthtulness there is nothing to
be compared with cotton seed oil.
This taxing of oil that is used in but
ter has strnck another great blow at
the industry.
The third great demand for the oil
is for the manufacture of compound
lard. Tremendous quantities of this
oil are used in the manufacture of
lard, and even this demand for oil has
slackened off very largely. would
respectfully submit tho fact to the
consumers of all pure food products
of this country, that for healthfulnese
and purity, the butter made from the
average dairy herd of cows, many Of
which may be, and often are, afflicted
with tuberculosis, can in no way
compare with butter made from the
pure vegetable oil. Cotton seed i,
never attacked by disease, which
cattle are often heir to. What / have
said of the butter business can be en-
phasized many time over with regard
to the lard business. There can b,
no doubt but when the average farmer
feeding hogs for market detects chol
era among hogs that they are rushed
off to the slaughter pens and slaugh
tered, and placed upon the markets
and from hogs many times diseased
comes our average meat and so>callet
pure lard. I would repeat what
said above, the pure vegetable OF
made from cotton seed is never affiict
ed with cholera or any disease tt
which the average hog is subje Ct
There are many other uses to whicl
the cotton seed oil is put, but 1 will
forbear to discuss them in this article