The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-14
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 z Washington. July 13.-(SpeciaLl-A s8 Tt valuable report entitled. cotton. ' VI Products in Toreign Countries. zkE been Issued by the Bureau of Man Y Kafures. Department of Commerce 2 T Labor. It consists of 1S4 pages. E " information contained therein has q sn furnished by United States con- s15 M m most of the countries of Flu S VI his letter of submission Major 4 kn IT, Carson, chief of the Manufac- W toeD Bureau. calls attention to the r St that the cotton seed industry in
 H UniAod States was practically es-
 f111hod In 1870. since which tims It ,! mnde remarkable progress grow from twenty-six establishments In \ 2& year to 715 in 1905.
 ! 3Iho capital now invested in this in-
 1ry is. roundly $74.000,000. The raeo number of wage-earners em- j1 oyed annually is 15,53s, which Is ex-
 nive of s.229 salaried employees, in \ &1tnG superintendents. managers. T Drks, etc. The value of the output sn lSe6-the last aggregAte official fig-
 So--was $S6,4O7.621: th1 value of the soDmual exports for the two years ended stkne 70, 1905, averaged upward of $s2.- so1o, co, and for the eight months ended lSbruary 2s. 1907. they aggregated
 @31. .Sse.lso which is double the value so& these products exported during the ,f Ielvo months ended June 30. 1906.
 Many Interesting Points. < xln the compilation there are many 1lb6resting points regarding rates of
 G5 5atoms duty on cottonseed products 1DDorted into the countries from &hlch reports are furnished. They W1lt doubtless prove of general inter- Az kt< N,~~f sr1auterst of Alabama and other South .1gA Stafes A liimted number of the af64Orts can doubtless be secured by Inpplying through the proper channels. 4 T |. l.. Benton is a special agent of l4ho department and he has been in Eu- fopo for some months carefully inves- l4A4a&ing the cottonseed product indus l3ry. Indeed, he was appointed at the 'U42ont request of this industry in the Uptted States, for he is conceded to be n axpert, and is one of the hardest Wokkers yet selected for such impor- 4Ant duty.
 # 19r. Benton and others who are mak- IT the inquiries wish to impress upon 4&6 mAnufactures fin this country the nAnessity of marking plainly the oil- lzho6 insist that 1t should be designa- 1oh ssoQtton oil" The foreigners are aonewhats peculiar in trading. They ;gnnt to know exactly what they are iH6tttng. and they have heard so much ahout adnlteration in the United States pI3or to the passage of the pure food Inv that they are easily made sus- p(cicus.
 \ II h . surprising fact that of all the European countries the Netherlands is no hrgest purchaser of our cotton
 Wsthssianas . Good CustomeR. The following extracts from the last rpport of Special Agent Benton tell the noosy:
 ssThe Netherlands is the best indi- N18ua1 customer among the family of AatsOns for American cottonseed oil. the value of $4,236.63S. being an i'm creaas over 1905 of 1.SS0.87O gallons. The purchase of the Netherlands is greater than that of France and Ger Aany combined. The gradual increase ri tho sale of cotton oil to the Meth orlAnds ts due almost entirely to the lnar9arine manufacturer. He is very 4P1andly to the American product, be- oad6ee with its use he secures the very henk results. It Is estimated that at 1eaek S6 per cent of the cotton oil re- cefvod from the United States enters into the Manufacture of margarine. Thao industry is one of vast impor- tasee fn the Netherlands and Is now in ! more prosperous condition than aver before.
 .Practically no cotton oil from the Unatod States Is used directly as a o&oking fat. Rape seed oil and 8 low 94ade English cotton oil are the prin- ckal cooking oils. though margarine a&d . compound lard manufactured in 3ihlland are the most extensively used IF cooking purposes. A leading brok- TT fn oils told me. that there was a