FACTS ABOUT OLIVE OIL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

FACTS ABOUT OLIVE OIL.

Olive od is mi.de from tho ripe fruit. In Spain and France, mon and wirls pro employed to go over tho ground daily and pick up the fa-i.-w ripe fruit for tin's purpose. 'Hie rcitmi and semi ripe olives are rejected. In Algeria, Sicily and other countries where the oil is chiefly used for Wmo consumption little or no care is in the selection of fruit for oil-SBk-ing. In tho countries first named. <ver, it has been found that only the choicest oil is saleable in tho foreign markets, and hence the earc taken m its preparation. Like all other good things of general use, olive oil has it's host of more or kss base imitators. Cotton-seed oil is the ehiefost of those. An "oil” that is the product of the chemist’s laboratory is another. Mixtures of olive, cotton-seed ami nut oils, known to the trade as ''sophisticated” oil, are sold as tho puie article. Tho “salad oil” of the grocer is almost invariably the oil of the cotton-seed. Unfortunately, real olive oil is comparatively high pri od. This is due to the high tariff on tho imported article ill the first and the limited output of tho Californian orchards in tin* reconT In 11908. California prodm-.sl 350.000 gallons of oil. But in the same t ear there vero imported 3, 449. M7 gallons. There is, therefore, little hop,* or the oil becoming cheaper through tho medium of Hie Pacific slope trees im+’l some time has elapsed. The opinion sooms to b.-> thac if California desires to make its olive industry a paying proposition, it. should attempt to do so- through th® medium of :t-i rip- olives and its oil.