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Japan, not only for oils, but also for vegetable tallow, and of which 

 a sketch is given here. Its arrangement and mode of operation 

 need no further explanation. Of course the fatty substance, after 

 being chopped up in a simple stock, is generally heated before it 

 is put under pressure in the hollowed stone, or block, or box, as 

 the case may be. As with us, the seed-meal is wrapped in bags or 

 cloths. It often happens that the arrangement for receiving the 

 liquid oil does not simply stand on the ground, but is sunk into it. 



Fig. 9. 



The extraction of oils by chemical process has never been in opera- 

 tion in East Asia, for almost all the solvents of oil in use among us 

 are lacking. 



As to the several fats mentioned above, and their products, the 

 following statements may be here made : 



I. Tane abura, the oil of rape-seed (Na-tane) is mostly burned 

 in lamps. Because of the harsh taste it imparts to food, its use in 

 the kitchen is confined to the place where it is produced. This 



