Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1918 — Bread From Cotton Seed; Provides Salad Dressing and a Butter Substitute. [ARTICLE]

Bread From Cotton Seed; Provides Salad Dressing and a Butter Substitute.

The cotton plant, upon which the world depends so largely for clothing, is rapidly increasing in importance as a food producer. Oil. from the cotton seed, formerly almost monopolized by makers of high grade soap, now appears upon the table in the form of palatable salad dressing and also as lard and butter substitutes. More recently the seed has been made to yield a flour from w'hich bread pleasing to the taste and as nourishing as lean beefsteak is baked. A bakery in a Southern city is selling 400 loaves of it a week. The annual value of cotton seed products is placed at $250,000,000, onehalf the output being used for food. Farmers are now receiving S4O to SSO a ton for the seed, as compared to $6 or $7 a quarter of a century ago. The yearly crop is about 5,000,000 tons, a great asset to the consumer at this time o£ extreme high prices for pure lard and dairy products.