Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-06-10
AMERICAN
COTTON OIL
COMPANY
Useful and Highly Priced Emana-
ticns from Cotton secd--once AL.
most Useless--Factories oil Over
Union.
Chemically Pure, Nourishing ana
Healthful Products.

iuf. meritorious end highly priced In
the mechanics and arts have withio
the past 80 years emanated from
the frowzy cottonseed, at one time
considered 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 wore
expended to extract the virtues that
were known to exist in the little
brown embryo that ignorance wasted
and continued blindly wasting until
science intervened and turned the
river of waste into a sea of gold.
Columbus found cotton in use by
the natives when he touched Ameri-
cas- shores in 1892. Cortez men
tions It as being rudely manufact-
nred into cloth by the Mexican In
/ dians.
The 'snow-whlte bolls we're found
growing Wild in Texas and the lower
Mississippi valley as early as 1896.
Virginia colonlsts cultivated Il as
long ago as 1921. No one dreamed
then that It would be a world COM
modity-no one thought OF the value
OF the seed.
Contrasting the wastefulness of
those days with the 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 com.
pany. 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 $4,000, 900.
The enormlty OF this sum is al
most incomprehenslble to the lay
mind, yet that does not wholly rep
resent the wealth obtained from
material that 80 years ago was
deemed OF small consequence. This
gr'at American industry is not
chiefly. supported by foreign trade.
Its greatest market Is at home.
More than half OF the production is
consumed In the United States,
where the purity and wholesomeness
OF the oils and the usefulness 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 a mix
ture OF cotton oil and beef stearlne.
and produces a vegetable product
that is uneqaalled.
Having the Endorsement OF lead
Ing physicians. the cooking oil.
which Is made strictly without smell
or taste. ranks high for the use OF
persons suffering from Indigestion or
weak Eomachs.
Prior 10 the enactment OF the Pure
Food iaw cottonseed oil was export
ID in large quantities and returned
10 this country as olive oil. having
iad 20 per cent OF olive oil mixed
With it,'and then sold at the price OF (
'ure olive oil. The profit 10 the
ldulteraters on the. other side was
'normous. as the cotton oil sold for |
I6 cents a gallon as against s2.0O a {
,allon for olive oil.
Pure cottonseed oil, as obtainable
oday under the protection OF the |
lure Food Act. Is preferred for sal. [
d purposes 10 olive OIL, It being 7
eadiIy assimilated and OF lasting q
eneflt 10 weak stomachs G
Stearine, which comes from the O
resslng Of salad oil nnder ice. Is
atural butter by IT'S consistency and =
iste. Nearly all OF this is sold In 3
Iolland to manufacturers OF butter L
he. who ship It to England, whore b
has large sale. II
Toilet scans Of the highest grade. q
le use Of which imparts 10 the flesh D
le softbess and smoothness OF the o
abe's cheek. are made OF oil from
lie seed that was 80 years ago d
oked upon as worthless. Il
Cottonseed meal with IT, agree Il
Die nutty flavor. is. from the agri-
Ilturist's point Of view, the most &
iportant, be cause II has proved the u
,st food for live stock. II enrlehes q
% product OF the dairy and Inn
lrts 10 he cattle the smooth. sleek, ~
ossy hide so highly priced by the lo
Ilryman who take pride in the APP al
,arance OF their stock.
Thousapds OF tons OF cottonseed s.
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