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under its own name and not as olive oil; it may be 

 made into good "butter" but since the cow has a 

 copyright on that name, no other product has 

 either a commercial or moral right to use it ; it may 

 be as good as hog lard, but it has no right to the 

 name of either hog or lard. 



So this masquerading under names of old estab- 

 lished products has brought cotton oil into more 

 disrepute than all its deficiencies have ever done ; 

 or to put it more vividly, cotton oil, with its good 

 qualities masquerading under false names, its 

 less useful forms appearing under its own name, 

 has thereby surrendered to other products much of 

 the praise its merits deserve and has kept for 

 itself all the blame of its shortcomings. 



Cotton oil has merits enough of its own to stand 

 on its own bottom and to fight its own battles. As 

 soon as those responsible for its evil ways realize 

 this, the better it will be for the commodity. 



THE SIZE OF THE INDUSTRY 



Estimating the 1905 cotton crop at 10,697,013 

 bales of lint the production of seed would be nearly 

 or quite five million three hundred and fifty thous- 

 and tons. On the supposition (and this is the 

 evidence of the past) that two-thirds of these will 

 go back to the farm, the other third used at the oil 

 mill, we have nearly one million seven hundred and 

 eighty-five thousand tons for the mills. On the 

 basis of forty gallons of oil in each ton we will 

 have the enormous production of more than 

 seventy-one million gallons of oil from our 1905 

 cotton crop. This, when sold in crude form at 

 twenty cents per gallon brings to the mills of the 

 South fourteen million two hundred and eighty 

 thousand dollars for oil alone. 



