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Total 493,331 16,864 9,681

IMPORTS IN 1850
Linseed. Rape seed.
quarters. quarters.
Russia 482,813 3,235
Sweden 870 --
Norway 268 --
Denmark 37 3,092
Russia 87,273 645
Hanse Towns 1,153 2,872
Holland 7,734 201
Naples 1,476 --
Austrian Territories 40 2,580
Greece -- 1,637
Wallachia and Moldavia 910 1,280
Egypt 17,517 --
East Indian Empire 26,142 13,126
Miscellaneous 262 922
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Total 626,495 29,495

OIL-CAKE.--It has been observed by Evelyn that one bushel of walnuts
will yield fifteen pounds of peeled kernels, and these will produce
half that weight of oil, which the sooner it is drawn is the more in
quantity, though the drier the nut the better its quality. The cake or
marc of the pressing is excellent for fattening hogs and for manure.

Oats contain, as a maximum, about seven per cent. of oil, and Indian
corn nine per cent. The cake of the gold of pleasure contains twelve
per cent. Indeed the most valuable oil-cakes are those of the
_Camelina sativa_, poppies and walnuts, which are nearly equal; next
to these are the cakes of hemp, cotton, and beech-mast. In France the
extraction and purification of oil from the cotton seed is a recent
branch of labor, the refuse of which is likely to prove useful in
agriculture; its value as a manure being nearly ten times greater than
that of common dung. Oil is obtained from maize or Indian corn in the
process of making whiskey. It rises in the mash tubs and is found in
the scum at the surface, being separated either by the fermentation or
the action of heat. It is then skimmed off, and put away in a cask to
deposit its impurities; after which it is drawn off in a pure state,
fit for immediate use. The oil is limpid, has a slight tinge of the
yellow color of the corn, and is inoffensive to the taste and smell.
It is not a drying oil, and