COMMERCIAL OIJYI. <>l 

 TXIUI: XI.. .MixirfltiiH'nu* <>lir, ,,,ls < '. ml imir.l. 



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a 15 samples. Bulletin du Ministere de 1 'Agriculture, 1895, p. 139. 

 ''49 samples. Bulletin dc 1' Agriculture o t Commerce de Tunis. 

 <" samph-s. Bulletin du Ministere de rAtfricnltniv, 1895, p. 139. 



<?These two South American oils were exhibited at the World's Fair, Chicago. From W. C. Blasda le, 

 Berkeley, Cal. 



COMMERCIAL OLIVE OILS. 



One hundred and fifty-seven samples of commercial olive oils were 

 examined, of which 7^ were labeled French oils, 67 were Italian oils. 

 ir> were California oils, and the remaining 3 were of miscellaneous 

 origin. Sixty -one samples were furnished by the Treasury Depart- 

 ment and came from the appraisers 1 stores at New York and Philadel- 

 phia; 96 samples were bought upon the markets at Boston, Buffalo, 

 Chicago, New Haven, New Orleans, St. Louis, San Francisco, Oakland, 

 and Washington. The following table summarizes the results obtained 

 on these commercial oils: 



TABLE XLI. Summary of commercial oils. 



One sample sold as "superior to any olive oil" was maize oil. 



Descriptions of the commercial samples are given in Tables XL1I, 

 XLIV, XLVI, and XL VIII, and the results of the analyses are given 



