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AMERICAN COTTON OIL CO.
Useful and Highly Priced Emana-
tions from Cotton Seed
Once Almost Useless.
FACTORIES ALL OVER UNION
Chemically Pure, Nourishing and
HeaEhful Products.

HeaEhtul Products.
A thousand things pleasing, useful,
meritorious and highly priced in the
mechanics and arts have within the
past thirty years emanated from the
frowZy cottonseed, at one time consld-
cred practically useless by the cotton
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 expended 10
extract the virtues that were known to
exist in the little brown embryo that
ignorance wasted and continued blind
ly wasting until science interviewed
and turned the river of waste into a
sea of gold.
Columbus found cotton in use by the
natives when he touched Americas
shores in 1892. Cortez mentions 1t as
being rudely manufactured into cloth
by the Mexican Indians.
The snow-white hollis were found
growing wild in Texas and the lower
Mississippi Valley al early as 1886.
Virginia colonists cultivated it as long
ago as 1921. Noone dreamed then that
it would be a world commodity-no
one thought of the value of the seed.
Contrasting the wastefulness of those
days with the economies of the pres
ent, 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. q Beaver Street, New York, with
factories in various States of the Union,
export annually c%ottonseed oil and
other products obtained from the seed
to the amount of $4,000, 900.
The enormity OF this sum is almost
incomprehensible to the lay mind, yet
that does not wholly represent the
wealth obtained from q material that
thirty years ago was deemed of small
consequence. This great American in.
dustry is not chiefly supported by for.
eign trade. Its greatest market ia at
home. More than half of the produc-
ton Is consumed in the United States,
where the purity and wholesomeness
of the oils and the usefulness and val
ues of the cake, meal, linters and hulls
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 a mixture
of cotton oil and beef stearine, and pro-
duces q vegetable product that is un-
.equalled.
Having the Endorsement of leading
physicians, the cooking oil, which is
made strictly without smell OF taste,
ranks high for the use Of persons suf-
fering from indigestion or weak stom.
achs.
Prior to the enactment of the Pure
Food law cottonseed oil was exported
in large quantities and returned to this
country as olive oil, having had 20 per
cent of olive oil mixed with it, and
then sold at the price of pure olive oil.
The profit to the adulterators on the
other side was enormous, as the cotton
oil sold for 46 cents a gallon, as against
$500 a gallon for olive oil.
Pure cottonseed oil, as obtainable to-
day under the protection of the Pure
Food Act, is preferred for salad pur-
poses to olive oil, it being readily as
simulated and of lasting beEeft to weak
stomachs.
Stearine, which comes from the press
ing of salad oil under ice. Is q natural
butter by its consistency and taste.
Nearly all of this is sold in Holland to
manufacturers of butterine, who ship
it to England, where it has q large sale.
Toilet soaps Of the highest grade, the
use of which imparts to the flesh the
,oft.ooo and oofh N oco IF tho hoho3o
cheek, are made OF oil from the seed
that was thirty years ago looked upon
IS worthless.
Cottonseed meal with its agreeable
nutty flavor, is, from the agricultu-
rist's point of view, the most impor-
tant, because it has proved the best
food for live stock. 1t enriches the
product of the dairy and imparts to the
cattle the smooth, sleek, glossy hide 30
highly priced by dairymen who take
pride in the appearance of their stock.
Thousands of tons of cottonseed meal
are used annually by tobacco growers
and planters in the Connecticut Val
ley, New England States, Pennsylva-
MIA, Virginia and wherever the priced
weed is cultivated.
A fine, light-colored leaf that COM
mands the highest price results from
the use of the cottonseed meal, and the
most successful tobacco growers SOW
prime cottonseed meal on their land
broadcast Immediately after plough
ing.
The American Cotton Oil Company's
products may be found in the kitchen
and on the tables of every civilized
country in the world. 1t is burning
in the altar lamps Of churches, and
is lighting armies of miners al they
delve and burrow in the secret places
of The earth.
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