CONTENTS. 



Introduction 



General discussion ' 



Statistics of the olive oil trade V 



Manufacture of olive oil 11 



Methods of analysis and interpretation of results l.'I 



Specific trravity !"> 



Index of refraction l- r > 



Mauniene number and specific temperature reaction is 



lodin absorption 20 



Saponification or Koettstorfer number -"> 



Melting point of fatty acids 25 



Solid fatty acids 27 



Free fatty acids 28 



( Hive-oil substitutes 31 



Cottonseed oil 31 



Peanut oil 34 



Sesame oil 35 



Mai/e oil 36 



Mustardseed oil 37 



Rapeseed and col/a oil 3s 



Sunflower oil 40 



Poppyseed oil 41 



Lard oil 42 



. Miscellaneous oils 43 



Olive oils of known origin 46 



California oils 46 



Italian oils 4s 



Commercial olive oils ~>l 



Sun unary 62 



Index <>:; 



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