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Cotton-seed oil is used for many purposes, such as making olive oil, butter or oleomargarine, lard, etc.
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Cotton-seed, it must be remembered, had little value at that time, except as livestock feed.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration
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Cotton-seed oil is the cheapest of the edible ones.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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Cotton-seed oil consists partly of an indigestible gum, and its continued ingestion tends to produce kidney trouble and heart failure.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses Florence Daniel
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Cotton-seed oil should absorb 104 to 110 per cent. iodine.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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Salad oil, not sold under any descriptive name, is usually refined Cotton-seed oil, with perhaps a little Olive oil to impart a richer flavour.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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Cotton-seed cake has lately been recommended on account of its cheapness, being usually thrown away as refuse by the cotton manufacturers.
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Cotton-seed cake is much richer in oils and albuminous matters than the linseed cake.
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_Cotton-seed Meal_ contains 7 per cent. of nitrogen, about 2.5 phosphoric acid, and 1.5 per cent. of potash.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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Cotton-seed oil requires weak lyes for saponification, and, being difficult to saponify alone even with prolonged boiling, is generally mixed with animal fat.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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