Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — Edible Oil of Egypt. [ARTICLE]

Edible Oil of Egypt.

Iu Egypt and the Soudan, in India and all through the east an enormous trade is carried on in vegetable oils, which take the place of our butter and margarine products. One of the principal edible oils is obtained from the ground nut, known In France as “arachide oil.” Over 1,000,000 hundredweight of these nuts are annually imported Into that country for Its production. Belgium also takes vast quantities. Arachlde oil Is an excellent soap mt.>:er, besides being an edible oi’., and when cotton oil is high in price will compete well with It in this branch of industry. In France alone there is already a very large consumption of It, to’ bo counted M tens of thousands of less. \