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under its own name and not as olive oil; it may be 
made into good “butter” but since the cow has a 
copyright on that name, no other product has 
either a commercial or mora! right to use it; it may 
be as good as hog lard, but it has no right to the 
name of either hog or lard. 
So this masquerading under names of old estab- 
lished products has brought cotton oil into more 
disrepute than all its deficiencies have ever done; 
or to put it more vividly, cotton oil, with its good 
qualities masquerading under false names, its 
less useful forms appearing under its own name, 
has thereby surrendered to other products much of 
the praise its merits deserve and has kept for 
itself all the blame of its shortcomings. 
Cotton oil has merits enough of its own to stand 
on its own bottom and to fight its own battles. As 
soon as those responsible for its evil ways realize 
this, the better it will be for the commodity. 
THE SIZE OF THE INDUSTRY 
Estimating the 1905 cotton crop at 10,697,013 
bales of lint the production of seed would be nearly 
or quite five million three hundred and fifty thous- 
and tons. On the supposition (and this is the 
evidence of the past) that two-thirds of these will 
go back to the farm, the other third used at the oil 
mill, we have nearly one million seven hundred and 
eighty-five thousand tons for the mills. On the 
basis of forty gallons of oil in each ton we will 
have the enormous production of more than 
seventy-one million gallons of oil from our 1905 
cotton crop. This, when sold in crude form at 
twenty cents per gallon brings to the mills of the 
South fourteen million two hundred and eighty 
thousand dollars for oil alone. 
