The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-07
PEANUT AND SOY BEAN OIL.
Regarding the Use of These Crops oy
the Oil Mills.

In addressing the feed control OIL
fcials of the country at Washington
DC, on November II. DR.. b. W. hll-
gore State chemist Of North caro-
lima, gave out some very timely ana
interesting information regarding the
crushing of peanuts and soy beans by
the cottonseed oil mills.
Peanuts are crushed both in the
hulls and after being hulled. Inc
presence of the hulls seems to permit
of extraction of the oil more satls-
factoriiy. The Spanish or small pea
nuts are chiefly used. One ton OF
peanuts in the hulls gives about ~
70 so gallons OF oil and 1900 to l.
400 pounds of meal or cake. The
balance, around 100 pounds, is waste
or loss.
The meal contains from 80 to 80
per cent. of protein and 6 to per
cent of fat.
When hulled peanuts are used, 100
to 115 gallons of oil is extracted and
there is 100 to 1900 pounds OF
meal. This meal contains 40 to 90
per cent. protein.
The cold process of extracting the
oil seems best. Not quite so much
oil is obtained, but it is of better
quality. Some have first extracted
the oil by the cold process and then
cooked and repressed the material
getting an additional quantity of oil
of a poor quality.
The cotton oil mills Of North Caro-
lima crushed about $4,000 bushels
of soy beans in 1915. We under
stood DR.. Kilgore to say a ton OF
beans yielded 80 gallons of oil and
1850 pounds of meal, but this would
only account for 1875 pounds and
leave a waste of 125 pounds. The
waste is not usually over so to Is
pounds. Authorities usually give the
oil WELD at from 35 to SO gallons.
A most remarkable statement was
made by Dr. Kilgore regarding the
effect of feeding peanut meal to hogs,
on the frmness and quality of the
carcass.
1t is a we'll known fact that when
hogs are fed on peanuts the carcass
is soft, the lard being so soft and
having such a low melting point OF
temperature that the buyers discrim-
mate against such hogs to the
amount OF a cent pound or more.
DR.. kilgore stated that when peanut
cake or peanut meal was fed the pork
was as firm as when corn is used.
While it is known that the feeding
of some corn while the hogs are on
peanuts, or the feeding of corn and
cottonseed meal for a period before
sale or slaughter. will greatly harden
and improve the carcass and raise
the melting point of the lard. if the
feeding of peanut meal does away
with all the bad effects along this
line which are experienced when
whole peanuts are used the fact opens
I'D splendid field of usefulness for
this Southern legume crop. We need
a protein feed for hogs more than
any other feedstuff, and if peanut
meal supplies this and the mills can
press out the oil without change in
machinery there ought to be a large
increase in the peanut crop, especial
" in those sections haying light soils,
where the peanut is known to do
well.
1t is to be hoped that further in
yestigation will confirm this most i'm
portant statement. If the meal does
not produce a soft pork, while the
whole nut does, it would seem that
it is not the character of the oil but
the excess of it which produces the
undesirable effect.-Progressive Far
mer.