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One of the diflSculties heretofore experienced in the manufacture 

 of oil from cotton seed arises from the lint that adheres to all 

 Upland cotton seed. That of the Sea Island vat-iety is smooth, 

 but in far less quantity than the other, and it is also more used 

 and more valuable for manure. 



Capt. De Peyster thinks cotton seed may be freighted from the 

 South to this city, and the oil manufactured here profitably, be- 

 cause the cake would be valuable for cattle in this vicinity. The 

 above report urges the same thing for British farmers. It states 

 that 55,076 tons of linseed cake, rape cake, and poppy cake were 

 imported into that country in 1852, and 118,213 tons of flaxseed 

 the same year, and that cattle feed might be much cheapened by 

 a supply of cotton seed oil cake. The product of oil from cotton 

 seed, one account states, is five quarts from one hundred pounds 

 of seed. Another account says, a gallon of nine pounds from 

 four hundred weight of seed. The soap made from the oil, 

 stearine,and oleine of cotton seed, is said to be equal to any other 

 vegetable oil for many purposes. It is a subject of vast import- 

 ance to the cotton growing states, but it will be found that they 

 have another important subject to consider if they send off" the 

 seed as well as lint from their soil, they will find it impoverished 

 still more rapidly than at present. It will be very easy, how- 

 ever, to prevent exhaustion, and still sell the seed, if planters 

 will appropriate only ten per cent of sales to the purchase of fer- 

 tilizers. 



FEEDING OIL TO HORNED CATTLE. 



A member present who is notorious for his old fogyism, under- 

 took to argue in favor of mixing cheap fish oil with the food of 

 cattle feeding for beef, and thought that some successful experi- 

 ments had been made in England, feeding cod-liver oil. 



Solon Robinson — That must be beneficial to the co)isumption 

 of beef. 



Dr. Waterbury said he had known the weight of a patient 

 increased a pound a week by the use of cod-liver oil. 



