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COTTON 
all the world as olive oil. The greater part of 
our so-called olive oil now used in this country 
bears absolutely no relation to the olive tree, but 
is simply high grade summer yellow especially 
treated, and labeled as genuine olive oil. 
Summer yellow is also treated with bleaching 
powder, which removes the yellow color, and it is 
then used in the manufacture of compound lard 
and like materials. So popular has it become in 
this form, that it is now manufactured under its 
own name or as cottolene. 
Winter white oil is the same product but cold 
Dressed. It is used in many ways from the manu- 
facture of medicinal compounds to oil for the 
miner's lamp. 
In numerous other ways does this refined cotton 
oil product supply the wants of man ; and it seems 
likely that we have only just begun to appreciate 
its value and that in future we shall have use for 
greater quantities, much of the product to be used 
in directions not yet even dreamed of. 
ITS USE IN ADULTERATING INEXCUSABLE 
Cottonseed oil has its own work to do, its own 
place to fill. Its value is too great, too important, 
too manifest, for us to wish to see it fraudulently 
used. There is no line of argument to justify the 
sending of cotton oil or any of its manufactured 
products into the world under false names save to 
ask praise and reward intended for something 
else — losing withal the renown and the reward that 
its own merits justify. 
This adulterating practice has been carried 
entirely too far. Cottonseed oil may make as good 
salad dressing as olive oil, but it should be sold 
