The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-31

mers to try new methods with fax, to
maintain and increase the production
Of oil.
The government has its experts try
ing various substitute plants to deter
min of any other sources OF OIL nj
for paint can be found.
And that brings us to another char
acter in the deyolping drama.
Hats Off to Peanuts.
A few days ago a man was in this
section looking for cheap land on
which to plant peanuts. Take off your
hats now, for the peanut must be
shown a certain Difference.
The boil weevil brought a shortage
Of cotton seed in some Of the lower
Mississippi country n the cotton OIL
men put in machinery for making oil
from peanuts. 1t is oil the oil mills
are after, not simply a chance to work
up cotton seed. They found they could
make merchantable oil from peanuts
and peanuts a established them
selves as an Oil crop down in the
southwest. Peanut oil has found its
place. Peanut butter, which presents
the oil in n form has grow so
| popular in a short time hat the gOv-
eminent reports say that some firms
manufacturing peanut preparations
for food consumption use as much as
a hundred and fifty carloads of yea
nuts a week
Inventions of machinery for picking
and cleaning peanuts seem to be put
ting a new life into the production
Of this crop, and with the constantly
increasing demand for oil it is inevi-
table that the peanut oil mill must
multiply as the cotton Oil mill has
sprung up.
Oils For Food Uses.
With the increase Of industrial de-
mands for oils comes an increasing
call for oils for food uses. Steadily
and rapidly the cattle supply Of this
country is narrowing down. Those
who had hoped to see meat more
cy is still the other way, and with no
sign of a change. The increasing
population asks for more meat.
The Agricultural Department re-
Gently announced the reasons for a
shortage of meat animals, and in eight
reasons are only two tina have a tenn
pOrary influence, and may be remOv-
ed. h other six seem to exert a
permanent influence on the restriction
OF cattle and to point to still higher
meat prices. The truth seems to be
that increased prices of land and la
Dor and the competition Of higher
prices for other farm products hat
can be raised at less cost and with
less work, tend to crowd cattle from
the farms.
Cattle have been the source of IA,
for the table since the settlement O.
the United States. But butter, ta11ow
lard, and the whole range of ANNA
fats is climbing to a point where tn
food fats must come from vegetable
oils.
The enormous substitution of cotto1
oil fats for food in the displacement
of butter and lard has presented
} question to the economic world tina
| hos hoon ~ ppiyonyf for fuUorfy -
or MORE, but the cotton oil has no
7 only won in every count, but steadil.
and rapidly increased it's hold on tn,
t trade, until the artificial butter pro
! duction and the artificial lard produc
ton are two of the big industries.
Artificial Butter and Lard.
: 1t is impossible to provide enough
fat in butter and in lard to meet tn
! demand for those artificials, SO tn
! artificial butter and the artificial lar,
= have become an economic necessity
There is no use to argue that mo-
; cattle and more hogs might be fec
: They might be, but they are not, an,
! that ARE not ends the argument.
= That they are not is pretty goo
evidence that they will not be. Cat
tie raising is the industry OF a thinl
: settled country. In a thickly settle
Q country cattle farming must give wa
c to a system of farming that cuts GU
II the INTERMEDIARY. fdTIleTS Will rails
y peanuts for oil, rather than raise fee
for cattle and convert the cattle int
e oil, or make butter from the catlt
to get the fat in the butter. Chin
y and India, those %populous countriei
g worked out this proposition long ag,
e Instead Of making vegetables an
: grain to feed cattle to make into nu
IS man food the Asiatics short-circuite
d the operation and they raise Vegets
il bles to feed the human race. wit
,e the cattle cut out. Europe has M d
" olive oil for generations to supply tt
ID rats that can not be afforded IN TT
Dt form of butter. Europe now buy
lie great quantities of cotton oil frol
st the United States. and in spite OF tt
4 rapid growth of the cotton oil il
he dustry and the rapid growth OF t
at mineral oil industry, and Of other Q
h industries in the United States. the1
IN is a growing scarcity Of sufficient c
ly of all kinds.
% Exporting Much Cotton Oil.
re The United States is now exportir
t. between fifty and sixty million ga
Ions of cotton oil a year. This ira,