The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-17

Chinese use 1t for fuel to small ex- tent. The price is about 1 rupee per maund. Some is exported to Japan for use as feed and ertilizer. This is sold by the market weight, 'tokari, which Is equivalent t. 40 pounds net, heinz about the same as the local Eur nlese maund. The cost of 100 tokaris is now about 100 rupees. This is packed in gunny sacks containing to 6 maunds of oil caLe for cattle food and fertilizer. This Is obtained from Manchuria mainly. and If the cotton seed oil mills were erected in India 1t is probable that Japan would also buy the cotton-seed oil cake in large quan- titles.
 Prefer Cotton Seed oil.
 In Burma, India, China and Japan cotton-see oil Is preferred to lard oil for culinary purposes. and it is claimed that for "shoA tening" an1 for pie crusts 1t is superior to lard or any other grease, both as to the taste and appearance of the finished crust. There saould be good demand in India. espec- ial1y because lard i absolutely forbid den to Mohammedans. and to some other religious sects as we'll There are over e0,000,0o Mohammedans in ln- dia. so the opening afforded by relig- ious prejudice is a large one.
 Refined cotton-seed oil has the color, transparency, and taste of olive oil and the same characteristics for lubri- eating and pharmace :tical purposes OieIn is the characteristic ingredient of each. It is almost impossible to dis tinguish a good cotton-seed oil from soiiye-oi and the former IS frequently employed to adulterate olive oil, about 2S per cent cotton-seed oil to 10 per cent olive oil being the proportions used. The Indian cotton-seed oil, how ever, Is not as clear and pure as the American oil nor of exactly the same taste or color, so is not so well suited for this purpose.
 Owing to the absence of the gum that always exists in lard oil, cotton- seed oil is a better .ubricator and lum- inant than the former. It burns long CT and gives brighter light, and this is one of the main uses to which the crudely extracted native oil is used Tn India. Being fixed oil. it is nonvola- tile, and therefore nonexplosive and safer than kerosene or similar oils.
 Unlike Indian cotton, of which very small amount goes to England, Indian cotton seed exports practically all 20 there, the main center of lm- port being Hull. Hull does very large business in cotton seed, but uses nearly all Indian and Egyptian. It's chief advantage is that it has higher average percentage of oil and is with out the adhering fuzz or velvet that is fvpical of the Indian seed, and which makes the Indian seed harder for cattle to digest, as well as more troublesome to manufacture and to obtain a clean oil. The Indian cake is less palatable and contains more woody fiber and in some cases it has been found to have a bad effect on English cattle.
 A sample of Indian cotton seed (Su- rat) was recently sent by Baroda State to Bombay for examination to ascer- tain what quantity of of could be extracted from 1t. The test was made by D. D. Kanza, of the Techno-Chemical Laboratory, Bombay and the sample was found to yield 2O.s per cent of oil. Three samples of seed from Baroda State. which is in. the center of the best cotton growing district of India, were sent to the United States last spring by MT. R. c. for analysis by the chem ists of different cotton-seed machinery The first test was re- ported as giving 42.7 gallons per ton of seed. The second chemist gave re- suits as indicating 362 pounds per ton, or 1S.I per cent of oil The third chem Ist reported the clean seed to consist of hulls and lint, 54.4 per cent; meat, 46.6 per cent. and that the meat con tainea oil. 2s.6S per cent, water or moisture, 5.7 per cent.
 MT. Whitenack, who is economic ad- wiser to Boroda state and an American, expects shortly to send over larger | quantities of cotton seed to be made | into cake and oil in an American cot | seed oil mill as a test. If the prac- tical results are favorable, and 1t Is found that American machinery is or | can be adapted to the smaller and fuz- zier Indian seed, the result Is that an oil mill will be immediately started in Baroda State, and that American cot oil machinery will be used not only in this but in other cotton seed oil mills that will be built in In- lia. Comparative figures for complete ,il-mill plants, including motive pow sr, etc, show that some American irms are quoting lower prices landed 1t Bombay than are the English, so he only thing needed is tests which will show that the American machin- ,ry is suited to Indian conditions.
 Alfred I Etofer