Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1915 — GET FOOD OIL FROM WEED [ARTICLE]

GET FOOD OIL FROM WEED

Chemist of the University of Kansas Finds Odd Use of a Worthless Plant. Lawrence, discovery that oil from the “Devil’s Claws," a hitherto worthless weed, can be utilized for food may result in making it a valuable industrial product „ for the semi-aiid regions of Kansas, according to Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, the University of Kansas food chemist Laboratory investigations showed that this weed, now growing abundantly on the waste sands of western Kansas, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, produces a seed from which an edible oil is extracted that may take the place of olive or cottonseed oIL The press cake from the oil is also valuable for stock food, as it has a high protein value. ■ >