The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-06-09
AMERICAN COTTON OIL co.
Useful and Highly Priced Eman.
atiOns from Cotton Seed
Once Almost Useless.
Factories All Over Union. Chemic-
ally Pure, Nourishing and Health
ful Products.

A thousand things pleasing, useful,
and highly prized in the
mechanics and arts have within the
past thirty years emanated from the
frowzy cottonseed, at one time con-
sidered practically useless by The cot
ton growers in the Sunny South.
Step by step have these things been
attained. Days and months have the
chemists toiled to reach the goal OF
success. Millions of dollars were eX-
pended to extract the virtues that were
known to exist in the little brown en-
bryo that ignorance wasted and con-
tinued blindly wasting until science
interviewed and turned the river OF
waste into sea of gold.
Columbus found cotton in use by
the natives when he touched America S
shores in 1892. Cortez mentions it
as being rudely manufactured into
cloth by the Mexican Indians.
The snow-white bolls were found
growing wild in Texas and the lower
Mississippi Valley as early as 1896.
Virginia colonists cultivated it as
long ago as 1921. No one dreamed
then that it would be world COM
modity-no one thought of the value
of the seed.
Contrasting the wastefulness OF
those days with tn economies OF the
present, and the various uses to which
the seed and its component parts are
put, is the purpose of this article.
The American Cotton Oil Company,
No. 81 Beaver Street, New York, with
factories in various States of the
Union, export annually cottonseed oil
and other products obtained from
the seed to the amount of $50, 900, 900.
The enormity of this sum is almost
incomprehensible to the lay mind, yet
that does not wholly represent the
wealth obtained from material that
thirty years ago was deemed OF small
consequence. This great American in
dustry is not chiefly supported by
foreign trade. Its greatest market is
at home. More than half of the pro-
duction is consumed in the United
States. where the purity and whole
someness of the oils and the useful
ness and values of the cake, meal
linters and hulls are. making new
friends and wider markets year by
year.
From the seed come compound lard,
cooking oil, salad oil and soap oil,
chemically pure, nourishing and
healthful.
The lard is recognized as mixture
of cotton oil and beef stearine, and
produces a vegetable product that is
unequalled.
/ Having the Endorsement of leading
physicians, the cooking oil, which is
made strictly without smell or taste
ranks high for the use of persons suf
fering from indigestion or veal
stOmachs.
Prior to the enactment of the pure
food law cottonseed oil was exported
in large quantities and returned tt
this country as olive oil, having hat
20 per cent of olive oil mixed with it
and then sold at the price of pur
olive oil. The profit to the adulter
ators on the other side was enormous
as the cotton oil sold for 46 cents |
gallon, as against $500 q gallon TO
olive oil.
. Pure cottonseed oil, as obtainabl
. to-day under the protection OF tn
Pure Food Act. is preferred for sala
purposes to olive oil, it being readil
assimilated and of lasting benefit t
/ weak stomachs.
Stearine, which comes from tn
pressing of salad oil under ice, is
natural butter by its consistency an
taste. Nearly all of this is sold i
Holland to manufacturers Of butterir
! who ship it to England, where it ha
;. a large sale.
ll Toilet soaps of the highest grad
. the use of which imparts to the fies
1.-THE softness and smoothness OF Il
: babes cheek, are made of oil fro
the seed that was thirty years as
O looked upon as worthless.
III COttOnseed meal with its agreeab
: nutty flavor, is, from the agricultu
lists point of view. the most impo
tant, because it has proved the be
d food for live stock. It enriches &
s product of the dairy and imparts
: the cattle the smooth, sleek, .glos
% hide SO highly priced by dairym
who take pride in the appearance