OLEOMARGARINE. 729 



Mr. ALLISON. Yes, sir. 



Mr. BAILEY. That is what it will cost the dairyman. Now, you say 

 your oil is worth how much a gallon ? 



Mr. ALLISON. Forty cents; that is, the butter oil. 



Mr. BAILEY. And 8 pounds to the gallon? 



Mr. ALLISON. Seven and a half; yes, sir. 



Mr. BAILEY. Five cents a pound ? 



Mr. ALLISON. It would bring $100 a ton in oil, and $20 a ton in these 

 by-products. 



"Mr. BAILEY. Of course there is oil in this [indicating piece of oil 

 cake in the hands of Mr. Neville], 



Mr. ALLISON. It is impossible to extract it, even if we thought it 

 advisable. By solvents it would be possible to take all the oil out. 



Mr. NEVILLE. You simply leave some of the oil in there? 



Mr. ALLISON. Yes, about 10 per cent, and for the very reason that 

 it makes it more valuable as a feed for cattle. 



Mr. WILLIAMS. That oil, you say, comes to $100 a ton? 



Mr. BAILEY. Yes; and this cake to $20? 



Mr. ALLISON. Yes, about $20 a ton. 



Mr. BAILEY. I have bought carloads of it. 



Mr. NEVILLE. The point I desired to make was that even though the 

 oil was not used in oleomargarine a large portion of it still remained in 

 the cake, and would be sold to the cattle feeders. 



Mr. ALLISON. It is left intentionally in the cake, in order to improve 

 the quality of the cake as a feed for the cattle. 



Mr. WILLIAMS. I am sure that Mr. Neville does not understand. 

 This is after the oil is pressed out [indicating piece of cake in his hand]. 



Mr. NEVILLE. I understand that that is oil cake 



Mr. WILLIAMS. The main product is the oil, and the by-product is 

 the cake. Then, in addition to that, there is the hull, which is used for 

 cattle feed. 



Mr. BAILEY. Eoughers. 



Mr. NEVILLE. But the principal feed with us is oil cake, in Western 

 Nebraska, and it has oil in it. I do not know what the quantity it has 

 in it is. 



Mr. ALLISON. It is a butter producer. If it is possible to kill the oil 

 mills of the South the butter feeder would suffer. It would deprive 

 him not only of the best feed, but of the feed that enables him to use 

 his home-grown feeds cottonseed meal being a highly concentrated 

 food which enables him to use roughers. 



Mr. WILLIAMS. Suppose you were deprived of the sales for your oil, 

 would it pay you to run your cotton-seed mills just for the cake? 



Mr. ALLISON. No, sir. 



Mr. WILLIAMS. That is the point. 



Mr. ALLISON. Mr. Alexander has said that he was buying cotton- 

 seed cake at $20 a ton. It is worth a little over that. It takes three 

 tons of cotton seed to make one ton of cake. 



STATEMENT OF MR. W. R. CANTRELL, SECRETARY OF THE WILLIAMS 

 & FLASH COMPANY, OF NEW YORK CITY, EXPORTERS AND COM- 

 MISSION MERCHANTS OF COTTON-OIL PRODUCTS. 



Mr. CANTRELL. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, this 

 subject has been so thoroughly gone over that there is very little I can 

 add to it, but I do desire to call your attention for a moment to a few 

 figures going to show the extent to which the manufacture of cotton- 



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