The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-26
COTTON SEED OIL NOW
 USED IN NORWAY
Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Manufacturers.
 Washington. D. C..

Bureau of Manufacturers,
 Washington. D. C..
 November 10. 1909 Dr. A. D. Allen. President, Interstate c. S. c. Association. Little Rock. Arkansas.
 Dear Sir:--
 am just in receipt of a letter from Special Agent Erode. dated at Chris tiana, Norway ,and also report from him on the sardine industry of that country. The report has been pre- pared for publication and 1t will ap- pear shortly. MT. Erode has done good work with the Norwegian pack CTS, which hope will eventuate in ex- tending the sale of high-class cotton seed oil in Norway for. preparing and packing sardines. Six firms. two at Bergen and four at Stavanger, are preparing to use high-class cotton seed oil and one of them has prom ised to send 1000 cases of their pro- duct to their agents in Chicago and New York The Chicago agents are R. B. Booth & Co, 342 LaSalle St., and the New York agents are Butzer & Co., 43 Broadway. MT. Erode further writes that he has had shipped 20 or 25 cases of sardines packed in extra choice winter yellow American cotton seed oil, and that these will be dis tributed among a number of cotton seed oil representatives in this coun- try. whose names he furnishes. and who are expected to do some mission ary work with the packages by di- recting the attention of local grocers and others interested to them. Your name and that of Messrs. Allison, Bal ley, Gibson, Ransom and others are on the list. I presume you will be furn- ished with a copy of these names. We l.. addffinn the of the six concerns that are using cotton seed oil, the names of other sardine packers in Norway to whom commit nications might be addressed in fur therance Of the use of cotton seed oil.
 MT Erode thinks that a fine oppor- tunity is offered for substituting cot ton sed oil for olive oil in the prepar- atfon of Norwegian sardines. The packers are quite anxious to use the American oil. not only for business reasons. but as a matter of policy. Cotton seed is cheaper than olive oil. just as good for packing purposes, and as the bulk of the sales of the product of Norwegian packers is in the United States, they properly think that It would be good policy for them to use American oil. If \the representative men of the cotton seed industry will urge the use of Norwegian sardines packed in Americal oil. demand Will he created that will encourage the Norwegian. This enterprise also of- fers opportunity to demonstrate whe- ther cotton seed oil may be used In nreparing sardines without proving obnoxious to the taste of consumers. You will notice from Brode's reports that tests made in Norway failed to disclose any difference between olive and cotton seed oil so far as odor, taste. and preserving qualities are concerned. I suggest that the cotton seed people exploit this Norwegian enterprise in, their papers and liter ature as extensively as possible.
 enclose list of the sardine packers above referred to, and a copy will also he sent to the Bureau of Publicity or the Association.
 Very truly yours.
 John M. Carson,
 Chief of Bureau.
 Bergen Canning Co.,, Bergen, Nor way; Bergen Packing Co. Bergen, Norway. John Braadland. Stavanger, Norway; stavanger Canning Co. stav- anger. Norway: Stavanger Preserving Fabrik. Stavenger, Norway; Concord Canning Co.,. Stavanger, Norway.
 Stavanger, Norway-Claus Ander- sens Enke; Chr. Bjelland & Co.,; Johs. Conranson AS: Hillevaag Sardinfab- rik; Holmeens Preserving Co.: Norwe- rian Smoked Sardines Co. (Ola Wik): Carl o. Olsen & Kleppe: Fr. Omadahls Hermetikfabrik; Preserving Co. Nor way. Disponent NJ. Tostensen; I. and B. Romso; Sardinefabriken. Norris, Disponent Jacob B. Natvig: Stavanger Vermetiske FabrIk: T. Ronnebergs Preserving Co.,: Stavanger Sardine Co. AS Disp. J. L. Jenson; c. Houge This; sveriges Forenade Konservfa- briker.
 Bergen. Norwyay-Bergens Verm- rogeri. Contingencies, l.; Einar Housvik, Tyskebryggen.
 Moss Norway-Moss Preserving Co.,, Chr. Aug. Thorne. adv