The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-14
|ITON SEED PRODUCTS
 IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
smerican Consuls Send Reports on Industry That
 Are Full of Interest to Southern Business Men.

great future in this country for Amer ican cotton oil as . direct cooking fat. A small quantity of American cotton oil Is taken by the compound lard manufacturer in this country. though this Is not an industry of treat impor- tance. Small qunatities so direct to the soap manufacturer"
 Cottss. Meal Trade
 The trade of the United States with small that the figures look ridaculous Less than 30.000 tons were received during 1906. and the trade here con- servatively estimates that not over 70 per cent of that was consumed in this country. the bulk going to the Ger man trade on the Rhine. The Nethcr- lands imported in 1906. z37.o00 tons of linseed meal. %. 900 tons peanut meal. and only 2s.000 tons of American cot ton meal. have been unable to Ind any explanation for this. and for the present am forced to the conclusion that the manufacturer in tho United States has not given the meal trade in The Netherlands the attention 1t should have. There is in this country. espe. cially in the northern section, Q vast dairy business. and in all sections much time h devoted to cattle raising. The grass season is about the same as in the Southern part of the United States. from April 1 to December 1. and the remaining part of the year commercial feed stuffs are used. There Is evident ly an excellent opportunity to place cotton meal with the Holland feeder.
 The trade of the United States with The Netherlands shows up we'll and has gradually increased during tho past ten years. The exports for 1906 show an increase of 90 per cent over 1905. American cotton meal, which is practically unknown in this country, has contributed nothing toward this in. creasing trade. The idea is prevalent that the Dutch experiment stations had found something wrong with cot. ton meal. I had . conference with the director of the laboratory at Goes. who informed me that they had never been able to Ind anything wrong, and now felt quite sure that they would not. For fifty years, the Dutch feeder and farmer have been feeding cake, and 1t will be far easier for the American manufacturer to furnish the cake than 1t will be to educate these people to . different method of feeding. They think that the cake is ground in order to use some adulterant."
 Relation to Olive oil.
 Consul James E. Dunning of Milan furnishes . comprehensive report in which the relation of American cotton seed oil to Italian olive oil is fully ex- plained. The consul says that Italian olive oil for both wholesale and retail homo trade contains from to 50 per cent of cotton-sesd oil. and that the latter comes in competition with the former as we'll as with the edible tal- low. butter. lard. olemargarine, peanut and haxseed oils. The opinion is ex- pressed. however, that no loaded" olive oil is exported to the United States. There has been . large in. crease in the quantity of cotton seed oil imported into Italy. Spanish and French olive oils are also imported when the Italian oil crop falls short It is declared on ohicial authority that domestic Italian olive oil is diluted with American cotton seed oil, and that this is done in the first instance to give the product a brilliant yellow color. and later by middlemen to pad the output.
 The adulteration of Italian olive oil by the use of American cotton-s seed oil. and the substitution, both open and otherwise. of cotton oil for the native product in short years and at other times. is unquestionably a fact. In the opinion of the Milan consulate this adulteration and this substitution do not extend to the export trade. In other words. all the evidence collected on this point by the consulate, and its volume is not inconsiderable. indicates that Italian olive oil exported to the United States is entirely free from adulteration and that 1t is the true and genuine product it appears to be. Every variety of independent inquiry instituted by the consuiate-all with out the knowledge of the exporters and manufacturers of the olive oil-