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CLXIX. New Process Linseed Meal. Made by Cincinnati Lin- 

 seed Oil Co. Sample drawn Nov. 1, 1883, from five 100-lb. 

 bags, presented by the company to this Station. 



The samples of Cotton Seed Meal are of average quality. This 

 material has been used to some extent as a fertilizer in this State 

 and when it has been damaged by water, smoke, etc., or has be- 

 come musty, this is the only use to be made of it ; but the clean 

 fresh meal can most economically be used first as cattle food and 

 then as a fertilizer. When the nitrogen of any such material 

 can with small outlay of money or time be converted into milk 

 or beef it is certainly wasteful to turn it back into the ground 

 and after nine months or a year recover it again in vegetables or 

 grain. That part of the cotton seed, not assimilated by the 

 cattle is saved in their manure and may then be applied to the 

 land. 



The " new process" of preparing linseed meal effects a more 

 complete exhaustion of the oil or fat contained in the cake after 

 It has been pressed. Linseed " cake" as will be seen from the 

 table following, has about 29.7 per cent, of albuminoids and 11|- 

 per cent, of fat. Nearly all of this fat is removed by the new 

 process and the meal after the extraction contains, pound for 

 pound, more albuminoids than the cake. 



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