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strained. The fine soap was found on trial to be of very superior 

 quality, and the committee are satisfied that the coarse soap is 

 free from all the offensive and disagreeable properties which are 

 almost inseparable from the soap made chiefly with animal oils. 

 As to the oil cake they have merely to remark, that the use of this 

 article in feeding cattle iS no new experiment, for a trade betweem 

 the cotton growing districts of Asia Minor and the dominions of 

 Austria in cotton seed, to be used for this purpose, is of some anti- 

 quity; it may therefore be considered certain that the use of this 

 oil cake, as cattle food, cannot be injurious to the health of the 

 animals, while its nutritious qualities are unquestionable. 



In view of the great importance of this subject, not only to the 



extensive regions in which the growth of cotton is the staple 



article of agriculture, but to all those where these products are 



useful, your committee do not hesitate to recommend Mr. Wilbur's 



processes and products to the favorable notice of the American 



Institute. 



(Signed) JAMES RENWICK, 



J. M. SANDERSON, 



CHESTER COLEMAN, 



EDWIN SMITH, 



Committee. 

 New- York, Sept. 12, 1854. 



