Maize Oil-cake. 



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A statement published in the United States Crop Reporter 

 for April shows that the number of beet sugar factories 

 operating' in European Russia in 1901-02 is 276, against 

 The Russian Beet 271 in 1900-01, 268 in 1899-1900, 

 Sugar Industry. and 242 in 1898-99. The area under 

 beet was 1,377,754 acres, against 1,308,671 acres in 1900-01, 

 1,200,443 acres in 1899-1903, and 1,084,507 acres in 1898- 

 99. It appears from a comparison of these figures that 

 during the four years named there was a continuous increase 

 in the area devoted to sugar beet, and that the total increase 

 within the quadrennial period amounted to 293,247 

 acres, or a fraction more than 27 per cent. On an average 

 for the four years, 32*7 per cent, of the total area was on land 

 pertaining to the sugar manufactories, but in 1901-02 the 

 proportion on such land was a little less, being 30-3 per cent. 



Maize oil and maize-oil cake are by-products from the 

 manufacture of maize into glucose and grape sugar. The oil 

 is of a reddish-yellow colour and of pleasant taste. It is 

 used in the manufacture of paints, 



Maize Oil and leather dressing, various kinds of soap, 



Maize-oil Cake, and rubber substitute. Corn-oil cake, 

 the residue after expressing the oil, is 

 valuable as an animal food, especially for dairy cattle. 



Only the germs of maize are used in oil extraction, these 

 being separated from the rest of the grain by a mechanical 

 process. They are ground into a powdery meal, heated, and 

 the oil expressed- by a process similar to that used for obtain- 

 ing linseed oil from flaxseed. The residue of the maize, after 

 separating the germs, is utilised in the manufacture of a 

 starch, from which is derived a great variety of products, such 

 as special starches, dextrines, gums, glucose, and grape 

 sugars. 



The exports of maize-oil from the United States increased 

 from 2,647,000 gallons in 1898, to 4,809,000 gallons in 1901; 

 while the exports of maize-oil cake advanced from 2,203,000 

 pounds in 1898, to 4,889,000 pounds in 1900. 



[United States "Crop Reporter" April, 1902.] 



