STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
)EPARTMEN1 BULLETIN to. 1475 
Washington, D. C. 
February, 1927 
PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF FATS 
FATTY OILS, AND WAXES IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
Br 
GEORGE S. JAMIESON, Bureau of Chsmistrj 
CONTENTS 
Introduction 1 
General Methods of Production ....... 2 
Vegetable Oils: 
Cottonseed Oil 4 
Coconut oil 9 
Palm-kernel oil 10 
Palm Oil 10 
Cohune Oil * . 11 
Coquito Oil..... 11 
BabassuOil 11 
Corn Oil 12 
OKve Oil 13 
Peanut Oil 14 
Soy-bean Oil 16 
Castor Oil 17 
Sesame Oil 19 
Sunflower-sead Oil 19 
Fixed Oil of Mustard Seed 19 
Rapeseed (Colza) Oil 20 
Cacao Butter 20 
Shea-nut Oil or Butter 20 
Almond Oil 21 
Apricot-kernel Oil 21 
Grape-seed and Raisin-seed Oils ...... 21 
Chinese Vegetable Tallow . . 21 
Japan Wax or Tallow 22 
Bayberry Tallow (Myrtle Wax) 22 
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Vegetable Oils — continued: 
Linseed OU 
China-wood or Tung Oil 
Candlenut or Lumbang Oil . .... 
PeriUa Oil 25 
Hempseed Oil 26 
Poppy-sesd Oil 26 
Animal Fats and Oils 27 
Milk Fat . 27 
Lard 27 
Beef Tallow 23 
Mutton Tallow . 28 
Whale OM 28 
Porpoise Oils 29 
Bone Fat 29 
Neat's-fo^t Oil 29 
Fish Oils 30 
Fish-liver Oils 30 
Waxes: 
Beeswax 31 
Carnauba Was -32 
Candelilla Wax 32 
Montan Wax .'.... 32 
Sugar-cane Wax 33 
Wool Wax (Greass) 33 
Sperm'OU (Wax) 33 
Production and Consumption Statistics .... 34 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1927 
