The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-03-08
Cotton Seed Oil Exports From U. S.

The growing Importance of cotton
seed oil as factor in international |
traffic as well as in domestic consump- |
tion 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 production and
now including cottonseed oil, mineral
oils, grain, meat and food animals. The
bureaus figures show larger value of
cottonseed oil exported in 1911 than in
any calendar year in the history of the
trade, the value of these expectations
in the year ending December 81, 1911.
being'$2l S39, l57, against little over
2 IL millions of dollars in 1885, 1-2
million in 1895, Is 1-2 million in 1905,
and SIS, ,8l3, 1923 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 4 million
dollars, suggesting still further in
crease in the total for the current year.
The value of cottonseed oil exported
from the United States during the dec
ade is considerably more than $50 mill
ion dollars.
The development of the cottonseed
oil industry in the United States has
been phenomenal. The total value OF
the product of cottonseed oil and of oil
cake and oil meal resulting from its
manufacture was, according to the
census Of 1880, IL million dollars
1890, about 20 million; 1900, AZ million
and 1910, 125 million dollars. Of crud'
cottonseed oil only, the production in
creased from 54 2-3 million pounds il
1880 to 3OS million in 1890, TIA million
in 1900, and / ,260 million in 1910. Tha
a growing proportion of the enlarge
production is consumed in the United
States is evident from the fact that 8
tper cent of the total output was re
tanned for home consumption in 1910
against 40 per cent decade earlier.
Europe offers the largest market fo
che cottonseed oil exported from tn
United States, the principal countrie
# destination being the Netherland
ne United Kingdom, Italy, France ar
. Germany in Europe; and Mexico ar
! Canada in North America. To ii
N tLerlands last years exports aggr
:, satsA IS million pounds, or 20 per ce
{ If the. total; to the United Kingdol
/ jS l-2 million, or 18 per cent; to Ital
l. 80 3-4 million, or about lU per cent;
..lexico, Is l-2 million, or 9 per cent;
Trance, 81 million, or 6 l-2 per cent;
iermany, Is IL million, or a 3-4 p
i cent; and to Canada, l3 million lbs,
u | per cent of the total exports for t
n :alendar year.
&c The increased consumption of cotto
i seed oil in the United States, as well
>, the large expectations to foreign cou
!, tries, is largely the result of the raj
|, extension of the industrial and otf
| lses to which it is applied, both in Il
II and other counties. Cottonseed {
J. which has now come to be recogniz
10 as cheap yet wholesome article
X food, IS largely used in the manuf'
Il lure of lard compounds, butterine {
II other substitutes for butter, in
e, packing and preserving OF fish, in n
x king salad oils, and in the manufact'
It. of the so-called olive oil of CONNER
d. The crude oil is valuable as soap sto
r.. yielding, when treated with certain
a, lalies, soap, washing powder, giycel
We etc. Among its miscellaneous appli
er tions may be mentioned it's use in m
lcine, in the preparation of cosmet
A.. liniments and emulsions, in mines
an Illuminating oil for miners lam
for tempering edged tools, for mix
with putty. and for rough painting.
IN OE LOCAL INTEREST