The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-02-29
COTTON SEED OIL
TRAFFIC FACTOR
AS Shown by An Act Of the
Federal Bureau Of
Statistics.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81 - Tho
growing Importance of cotton seed
oil as a factor in international traf-
fic as well as in domestic consump-
ton is illustrated by the fact that
the bureau Of statistics has recently
added that article to its monthly
Advance Bulletin" showing exports
of leading articles of domestic pro-
duction and now including cotton
seed oil, mineral oils, grain, meats
and food animals The bureau fig
ures show larger values OF cotton
seed oil exported in 1911 than in
any earlier calendar year in the his
tory of the trade, the value of these
expectations in the year ending De-
cember 81, 1911, being S21 ,S39. 157,
against n little over IL million
dollars in 1885, IL million in
1895, 10 IL million in 1905, and
$19,S13,S23 in 1908. the former
high record year in exports of this
article. For the month of January
alone the value of the exports is
nearly four million dollars, suggest
ing still further increase in the
total for the current year. The
value of cotton seed oil exported
from the United States during the
decade is considerably more than
$50 million dollars.
The development of the cotton
seed oil industry in the United States
has been phenomenal. The total
value of the product of cotton seed
oil and of the oil cake and oil cake
meal resulting from its manufac-
ture was, according to the census
of 1880, 1-2 million dollars; 1890,
about 20 million; 1900, 80 million,
and 1910, 1875 million dollars. or
crude cotton seed only, the produc-
ton increased from 54 2-3 million
pounds in 1880 to 2OS million in
1890, and 1860 million in 1910.
That a growing proportion of the
enlarged production is consumed in
the United States is evident from
the fact that SO per cent OF the total
output was retained for home con-
supmtion in 1910, against 40 per
cent decade earlier.
Europe offers the larges market
for the cotton seed oil exported
from the United States, the principal
countries of destination being the
Netherlands, the United Kingdom,
Italy, France and Germany in Eu-
rope; and Mexico and Canada in
North America. The the Neither
lands last years exports aggregated
SIS million pounds, or 30 per cent OF
the total; to the United Kingdom,
SO 1-2 million, or is per cent; to
Italy, SO ga million, or about 10
per cent; to Mexico, IS 1-2 million,
or IS per cent; to Italy, 3S "a mill
lion, or about 10 per cent; to Mex
leo, 2S 1-2 million, or 9 per cent; to
France, 81 million, or 1-2 per
cent; to Germany, Is 1-2 million, or
ga per cent; and to Canada, Is
million pounds, or a per cent OF the
total exports during the calendar
year.
The increased consumption of cot
ton seed oil in the United States, as
we'll as the large expectations to for
eign countries, Is largely the result
of the rapid extension of the indus
trial and other uses to which it is
applied both in this and other coun-
tries. Cotton seed oil, which has
now come to be recognized as a
cheap yet wholesome article of food,
is largely used in the manufacture
of lard compounds, butterine and
other substitutes for butter, in the
packing and preserving OF fish, in
making salad oils and in the manu-
facture of the so-called olive oil of
commerce. The crude oil is val
liable as soap stock, yielding, when
treated with certain alkalies, soap,
washing powder, glycerine, etc.
Among the miscellaneous applica-
tons may be mentioned its use in
medicine, in the preparation of cos
metics, liniments and emissions, in
mines as an Illuminating oil for
miners lamps, for tempering edged
tools, for mixing with putty, and
for rough painting.