The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-16
PRODUCTS OF SEED
STATISTICS OF COTTON OILS AND
 CAKE.
hureau of Manufactures Gives Out Re- port of Special Agent Perkins
 on Trade of United
 kfnEdom

Washington, Nov. 15.--(Special.)-- The Bureau of Manufactures has made public report of Special Agent A.. O. Perkins on the trade of the United Kingdom on cotton seed products and vegetable oils from which the follow ina extracts are taken:
 Liverpool. the largest market in the United Kingdom for American cotton seed cake and meal, as well as other imported oil cakes. takes annually be- tween s5,000 and 50,000 tons of Ameri- can cottonseed cake and meal. Large quantities of cake and meal are sold
 to other British ports by the Liver- pool agents. It ie estimated that about 90 per cent of the American product coming to this market is meal. Feed CTS. however, do not use meal. on ac- count of the wastage in handling, etc. Cake Is almost exclusively used for feeding; but the American cake is too hard to suit the British feeder. There fore, in order that the American pro- duct may reach the feeders the British oil cake manufacturer must either re- press American meal into cake, which. by the way. makes very palatabie feed. or use 1t in the various mixtures for making compound cakes. So 1t is that the manufacturers are the larg- est customers in England for AmerI- can meal.
 The total imports into Great Britain of cottonseed cake and meal during 1907 were 162,6S9 long tons, princi- pally from the United States. Egypt, and Mexico, shipments from the coun- try last named having increased from 3,7S1 tons In 1903 10 l7,225 tons in 1907. Peru is also increasing her shipments to the United Kingdom, though the total receipts of Peruvian cottonseed cake in 1907 was only a little less than 5000 tons. Peruvian cake is sold in this market on guaranteed andy sis of fifteen per cent oil and thirty eight per cent albuminoids. The writ CT was shown q contract for the whole aeason,s output of one of the Peruvian mills at the equivalent of 337.22 per aong ton ex- x-quay. as against $32,36 for New Orleans prime" (forty per cent Rlbuminoids) c. 1. f. Since these sales were made, however. I have heard Of s3s.0s being paid for New Orleans prime meal.
 Almost any grade of decorticated meal can be sold in this market at a fair price, but the majority prefer meal containing fifty per cent to fifty two per cent of oil and albuminoids, and while the present standard of prime meal Is forty per cent albumi- holds (according to the contract form now in use). the Liverpool manufac- turers are anxious to have this chang ed to a combined guaranty of oil and albuminoids; in fact, during the last six weeks the Liverpool oil Cake Man. ufacturers' Association have held sev- eral meetings to consider this, among other questions. The writer has had several conferences with members and oficiaIs of this association and in early part of October attended a joint meet ing of a committee of buyers and sell- ing agents, the result of which was that their secretary was directed to draw up 6 contract to suit the Liver pool trade and forward the same. to- gether with yetter of explanation, to the president of the Interstate Cot ion Seed Crushers' Association with the view of coming to 6 better under standing.
 one reason why other cakes bring relatively higher prices per unit of seedInR value in the United Kingdom than cottonseed cake and meal is the advertising done by the mAnufaotur- ern of other cakes, through which means the farmers have become inter eafed in the latter and are regular enatonaers. Tn any of the feed stores or offices one can find photographs or Iithographs of a fine horse, COW, or other animal which has been reared