“Mr. JUSTIN A. Ware. You made an allusion to the fact that cotton seed oil had been sent to Italy and returned to us in the form of first-class olive oil. I would like to ask if you have the facts at hand to show the extent to which that is done.

Mr. D. A. TOMPKINS. Speaking very approximately, I should say that cotton oil goes into trade about as follows: the lard makers in Chicago use about half a million barrels. Some, three hundred thousand barrels are used yearly by the butter makers in Holland. Twenty thousand barrels go to the coast of Maine for packing sardines. About five hundred thousand barrels go yearly to the Mediterranean ports to be refined and put up as olive oil. It is used to make candles, soap, as an illuminating oil, as a lubricant in cutting thread on pipes and bolts, and for many other purposes. Your doctors in Boston prescribe it in cases of dyspepsia, it being used as a cooking oil in place of hogs’ fat.” ‘

Reference Data:

Transactions of th National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, Issue 59, by The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers and the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, 1895, page 225