PHILIPPINE OIL-BEARING SEEDS AND THEIR PROPERTIES: IP 



By Harvey C. Brill and Francisco Agcaoili 



(From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



TWO TEXT FIGURES 



The vegetable-oil industry is going through a transition period. 

 Manufacturers and consumers are turning their attention to 

 vegetable oils, and the processes of extraction, expression, re- 

 fining, and deodorizing have been so greatly improved that these 

 oils have invaded the domain of the animal fats and in many cases 

 entirely usurped their place. In the warmer climates very strong 

 prejudices are held by the Caucasians against the use of animal 

 fats for edible purposes, because of a belief that they are dele- 

 terious to the health. This belief is spreading to the native 

 peoples, and the holding of this belief, together with the limited 

 available amount of animal fat, will result in a still more in- 

 creased demand for edible vegetable oils. The increased demand 

 will be accompanied by a further rise in price, unless larger quan- 

 tities are available. This gradual rise in cost is illustrated by the 

 table of prices of edible cottonseed oil and edible peanut oil 

 taken from the figures published by a Hamburg importer and 

 quoted by E. W. Thompson. - 



Table L — Maximum and minimum, prices of cottonseed and ■peanut oils. 



[Figrures fvive cents per pound.] 





1904 



190« 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1911 



1913 



Edible cottonseed oil: 



5.06 

 6.05 



5.78 

 6.60 



6.43 



7.92 



6.27 

 8.91 



6.27 

 9.24 



7.00 

 8.03 



6.93 

 8.36 



Highest . 



Mean 



Edible peanut oil: 



Lowest _ -_ . 



5.55 



6.19 



7.17 



7.59 



7.75 



7.51 



7.64 





8.80 

 9.02 



9.02 

 9.68 



9.79 

 10.50 



9.57 

 10.78 



10.34 

 10.56 



Highest . _ 





Mean ._ 



'" 



1 



8.91 



9.35 



10.14 



10.17 



10.45 



Mean difference. . , 





1 



1.74 



1.76 



2.39 



2.66 



2.81 





1 



' Received for publication March 19, 1915. 



' Dept. of Commerce, Special Agents Series No. 89. Part 11. Edible oils 

 (1914), 18. 



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