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The Bulletin. 



SWEET OIL. 



Sweet oil is olive oil. However, there seems to be some difference of 

 opinion as to what really constitutes a sweet oil, and what can correctly 

 be labeled and sold as sweet oil. The name sweet oil does not occur in 

 the pharmacopoeia, therefore we have to go elsewhere for a definition. 

 The Board of Food and Drug Inspection of the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, United States Department of Agriculture, have held that 

 "sweet oil" is olive oil. The United States Dispensatory defines and de- 

 scribes sweet oil as olive oil. Most of the State Food and Drug officials 

 hold that sweet oil is olive oil. On the other hand some very prominent 

 druggists think that cotton seed oil can be properly branded sweet oil. 

 Apparently their principal reason for so thinking is that for some 

 years it has been branded and sold as sweet oil. This Department does 

 not in any way wish to discriminate against cotton seed oil. It is a 

 good product and justly deserves the good name it bears, but it is either 

 sweet oil or it is not sweet oil. If it is sweet oil then olive oil is not 



RESULTS OF THE EXAMI- 





Material and Brand 

 from Label 



Manufacturer or Wholesaler 



Retail Dealer or Party Who 

 Sent Sample for Analysis 



9125 Cotton Seed Oil.- Ahrens Bros., Wilmington, N. C... William Crownstream, Wilming- 

 ton. 



8833 Sweet Oil-- -..;BaiIev, James, & Son, Baltimore, 



I Md. 



9126 do -iBellamy, Robt. R., Wilmington, 



N. C. 

 Bristol Drug Mfg. Co., Bristol, Va.- 



9214 Sweet Oil, Peacock- 



8907 Sweet Oil. 



9233 Sweet Oil, S 



Burwell & Dunn, Charlotte, N. C. 



Branning Mfg. Co., Edenton 



J. P. Montgomery, Wilmington. 

 R. B. Terry, Hamlet 



A. W. Porter & Co., Rockingham 



.do - - jW. A. Jamison, Charlotte. 



8829 Sweet Oil, Keeler's - Carr-Owens & Co., Baltimore, Md.- 



9228 Sweet Oil, Cumberland.... Cumberland Mfg. Co., Nashville, 



Tenn. 



9224 Sweet Oil, C. C. C— Clotworthv Chemical Co., Balti- 



Md. 



8831 .Sweet Oil, Phoenix Crawford, W. H., Co., Baltimore, 



Md. 



9225 Sweet Oil.— .-- Frank Tea and Spice Co., Cincin- 



I nati, Ohio. 

 9219 Sweet Olive Oil, Gilbert's.. Gilbert Bros. & Co., Baltimore, Md. 



9379 Olive Oil (Sweet Oil) - Goldsboro Drug Co., Goldsboro, 



N.C. 

 8828 Sweet Oil Heekin Spice Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Tarboro Grocery Co., Tarboro. 



O. F. Pearce, Greensboro 



J. S. Shinley, High Point 



Pamlico Grocery Co., Washing- 

 ton. 

 J. S. Skinley, High Point 



9217 Sweet Oil, Red Cross- 



I. C. Co., Baltimore, Md. 



9227 Sweet Oil, Justice's Justice Drug Co., Greensboro, 



N. C. 

 Marsh, M. L., Concord. N. C... 



8908 Sweet Oil— 



9128 Sweet Oil, Reliable 



8909 Sweet Oil, Crown* 



9215 Sweet Oil, Reliable—. 

 9221 Sweet Oil, N. P. D 



McCormick & Co., Baltimore, Md. 



....do 



-...do 



Norman-Perry Drug Co.. Winston- 

 Salem. N. C. 



W. R. Woodson, Salisbury 



Goldsboro Drug Co.. Goldsboro 



J. B. Cummings, Tarboro 



W. G. Lowry, Rockingham 



Tucker & Erwin, Greensboro 



Correll & Stratford, Concord ... 



L. H. Caldwell, Lumberton 



G. W. Goodwyn, Laurinburg 



do - 



A. L. Sink. Lexington 



'Sample from old stock 



