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all the world as olive oil. The greater part of 

 our so-called olive oil now used in this country 

 bears absolutely no relation to the olive tree, but 

 is simply high grade summer yellow especially 

 treated, and labeled as genuine olive oil. 



Summer yellow is also treated with bleaching 

 powder, which removes the yellow color, and it is 

 then used in the manufacture of compound lard 

 and like materials. So popular has it become in 

 this form, that it is now manufactured under its 

 own name or as cottolene. 



Winter white oil is the same product but cold 



Eressed. It is used in many ways from the manu- 

 icture of medicinal compounds to oil for the 

 miner's lamp. 



In numerous other ways does this refined cotton 

 oil product supply the wants of man; and it seems 

 likely that we have only just begun to appreciate 

 its value and that in future we shall have use for 

 greater quantities, much of the product to be used 

 in directions not yet even dreamed of. 



ITS USE IN ADULTERATING INEXCUSABLE 



Cottonseed oil has its own work to do, its own 

 place to fill. Its value is too great, too important, 

 too manifest, for us to wish to see it fraudulently 

 used. There is no line of argument to justify the 

 sending of cotton oil or any of its manufactured 

 products into the world under false names save to 

 ask praise and reward intended for something 

 else losing withal the renown and the reward that 

 its own merits justify. 



This adulterating practice has been carried 

 entirely too far. Cottonseed oil may make as good 

 salad dressing as olive oil, but it should be sold 



