}     The  Cotton-seed  Oil  Industry  in  Georgia.  497 
lemon  JUICE. 
100  Grammes  contained 
Ripe  Fruit. 
Unripe  Fruit. 
7"25 
7.70 
7-28 
7'52 
Nil. 
Nil. 
0'75 
0-2I 
0*19 
078 
0-384 
0*486 
8-87 
9'30 
o-68 
o-6i 
-I7(-  °°36') 
+  r3  (+o°  27') 
+  °'7 
+  3-o 
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—  0-26 
THE  COTTON-SEED  OIL  INDUSTRY  IN  GEORGIA.1 
By  Joseph  Jacobs. 
I  have  thought  that  our  Association,  in  this  section  especially, 
might  profitably  from  year  to  year  devote  some  of  its  time  to  the 
consideration  of  some  of  the  industries  that  produce  the  articles 
that  form  or  which  might  form  the  subject-matter  of  the  drug 
trade,  directly  or  indirectly. 
In  the  present  paper  I  shall  endeavor  to  give  some  account  of 
the  cotton-seed  oil  industry,  confining  the  statistical  portion  of  the 
article  mainly  to  my  own  State,  Georgia,  as  this  is  one  of  the  typical 
Southern  States,  and  what  is  said  in  that  connection  is  measurably 
true  of  the  other  Southern  States  of  our  Union  ;  though  the  indus- 
try is  by  no  means  confined  to  the  South. 
While  the  Southern  States  of  our  country  now  principally  supply 
the  world  with  cotton,  the  cultivation  of  the  plant  is  not  at  all  con- 
fined to  that  section.  Egypt,  India,  Australia,  portions  of  China 
and  many  of  the  States  of  South  America,  as  well  as  many  of  the 
islands  of  the  seas,  cultivate  the  variety  of  the  Gossypium  plant, 
known  by  the  common  English  name  "  cotton." 
There  are  some  who  suppose  that  the  use  of  cotton  as  a  mate- 
1  Read  at  the  Baltimore  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion. 
