"Cottonseed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made in conformity with the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy formula given in an outdated edition of the United States dispensatory. But instead of containing a proper amount of linseed oil, if indeed it contained any, the medicine was made with cottonseed oil, an ingredient not mentioned in the Dispensatory. Therefore, the government charged, the Oil was adulterated, under that provision of the law requiring a medicine to maintain the strength and purity of any standard it professed to follow. ...
— Old English Patent Medicines in America • George B. Griffenhagen
... it is the most important, is not the only great industrial enterprise in the New South. Two others, both in a way the by-products of cotton, deserve attention. Only a few years ago cotton seed was considered a nuisance. A small quantity was fed to stock; a somewhat larger quantity was composted with stable manure and used for fertilizer; but the greater part was left to rot or was even dumped into the streams which ran the gins. Since the ...
— The New South - A Chronicle Of Social And Industrial Evolution • Holland Thompson |
