500        The  Cotton-seed  Oil  Industry  in  Georgia.  {^oS^xm^' 
and  Japan.  The  Germans  and  Americans  are  said  to  prefer  animal 
fats  to  vegetable  oils,  contrary  to  the  taste  of  all  other  civilized 
people.  The  capacity  of  the  various  mills  varies  from  a  consump- 
tion of  250  tons  a  day  by  the  larger  mills  to  15  tons  by  the  smaller. 
The  total  capacity  of  the  Georgia  mills  is  about  2,000  tons  a  day, 
which,  if  run  on  full  time,  would  consume  more  than  the  total  seed 
product  of  that  State  if  all  were  available  ;  but  the  fact  is  that 
much  of  the  seed  used  by  the  Georgia  mills  is  brought  from 
Alabama,  Mississippi,  Florida  and  the  Carolinas.  The  annual  out- 
put of  Georgia  from  the  200,oco  tons  of  seed,  is  about  1 50,000 
pounds  of  oil,  70,000  tons  of  meal,  8,000  bales  of  linters  and  80,- 
000  tons  of  hulls.  The  average  value  of  the  annual  product  is 
about  $2,750,000. 
I  have  thus  endeavored  to  give  some  of  the  facts  connected  with 
cotton-seed  oil,  its  history  and  its  quantity  and  production,  in  the 
hope  that  our  trade  may  find  it  a  profitable  product  to  deal  in.  I 
will  now  enumerate  some  of  the  uses  to  which  it  has  been  applied, 
hoping  that  they  may  suggest  others  even  more  in  line  with  our 
especial  interests. 
The  principal  use  to  which  it  is  put  is  for  food  purposes.  The 
claim  that  it  is  more  healthful  than  many  animal  fats  has  been 
largely  responsible  for  its  extensive  adoption  in  this  connection. 
Nearly  seven-eighths  of  the  28,000,000  gallons  produced  per  annum 
probably  find  their  way  into  "  refined  lard  "  and  salad  and  cooking 
oil.  It  is  used  for  illuminating,  in  the  manufacture  of  bolts  and 
nuts  ;  for  all  kinds  of  soap,  bath,  laundry  and  toilet  soap.  It  is 
used  as  a  substitute  for  olive  oil  as  an  emulsion  in  medicine  ;  it 
has  been  prescribed  as  a  substitute  for  cod-liver  oil,  and  lor  olive 
oil  in  packing  sardines,  and  in  many  other  ways.  It  is  said  that 
its  non-drying  properties  debar  its  use  as  a  wood  filler,  or  for 
stuffing  hides  in  making  morocco  and  other  leathers.  No  treat- 
ment has  as  yet  been  discovered  which  will  give  it  the  "  drying  " 
properties  of  a  good  menstruum  for  paints.  As  a  soap  for  woolen 
mills,  it  has  been  extensively  adopted  in  America,  England  and 
Scotland. 
As  an  illuminant,  a  writer  claims  that  its  place  is  midway  between 
sperm  and  lard  oil.  It  can  be  burned  alone  or  mixed  with  petro- 
leum. On  the  coast  of  Maine  there  are  a  number  of  establishments 
shipping  "sardines  "  and  "  shadines,"  which  are  said  to  be  cooked 
