The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-13
AMERICAN COTTON
OIL COMPANY
Useful and Highly PrIzed Emana.
tons from Cotton Seed, Once
Almost Useless.
FACTORIES ALL OVER UNION
Chemically Pure, Nourishins and
HeaIthful Products

A thousand things pleasing, useful,
merit"riouS ard highly priced in the
, mechanics and arts have within the
past thirty Years emannated from the
frOwSy cOttOt1Seed, 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 m 1nths have the
chemists IOiled to reach tie goal of
success. Millions of dollars were eX-
pended to extract the virtues that
were known TO exist in the little
brown efCbrv0 that :gnOTance wasted
and continued blindly wasting until
science intervened and turned the
river Of waste into sea Of gOl3.
Coluns brs found cotton in use by
the natIveS when he touched America S
shores in 1892. COrteZ mentions itI
as being rudely manufactured into
cloth by The Mexican Indians.
The sn0w-wh sc bOllS were fOInd
growing wild in Texas and the lower
Mississippi Valley as early as 1926.
Virginia colonistS cultivated it as
lrng ago as 1921. No one dreamed
then that it would be a wc-ld COM
modify 30 one thought Ct the value
of the seed.
Contrasting the waStefGineSS of
those days with the economies Of the
present. and the various uses 10
which the seed and its component
parts ar put. is the purpose Of this
article.
The American Cotton OIL Company.
No.27 Beaver street, New York. with
factories in various states Of the
Union, export annually cottCnseed oil
a,ad other products obtained from
the seed To the amount Ots5Q 600, 600.
The, enJrmiry Of this sum is almost
incompreSlensible to the lay mind, yet
that does not wholly represent tie
wealth obtained from a material that
thirty yeats ago was deemed IF small
consequence This great American
industry is.not chiefly supported by
foreign trade. It's greatest market is
5at,hOme. More than half If the pro-
ductiOn is consumed in the Shifted
States, where the purity and whole
SOmeneSS OF the oils and the useful
ness and values Of the cake. meal.
linterS and hlllS are making new
friends and wider markets year by
year.
From the seed come compound lard,
,cookir G oil. salad oil and soap oil,
chemically pure, nourishing and
alealthful.
The lard is recognized as a mixture
of,cott0n OH and beef stearine and
produces a vegetable product that is
uDeGQalled.
Having the indorSement of leading
physicians, the cooking oil, which is
made strictly without sslell or taste
4ankS high for the use Of persons suf-
fering froGa indigestion or weak stom-
achS.
Prior to the enactment Of the Pure
Food law cOtton-seed 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 adultera-
tors 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
purposes to olive oil, it being readily
assimilated and of lasting benefit to
weak stomachs.
Stearine, which comes from the
pressing of salad oil under ice, is a
natural butter by its consistency and
taste. Nearly all Of this is sold in