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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 October 1913, Page 4

It is not generally known that a useful edible oil is manufactured on the Continent out of grupe seeds. The oil obtained cold from the first pressing is edible ; the oils obtained by pressing and heating, and that extracted by means of solvents, have a dark color and a bitter taste, and after being purified by concentrated sulphuric add and cleared with bone black, are used for lighting purposes and in the manufacture of soap, and, on account of the small cost, they would be a good substitute for the expensive oils used in the textile industry. Aside from the uses^ mentioned, and because some of its chemical properties are similar to those of castor oil, grape-seed oil has suggested itself as a substitute for castor oil in the preparations of compounds used in the manufactures ol1 red colois

" The time is rapidly approaching' when there will be no dairy factory of any \sizo in Taranaki making butter ; they will bo making cheese." Tliia opinion was vouchsaved to a reporter recently l>y the representative of a lavo-o dairy produce exporting- firm. A.c~ cording to him every factory should have a dual plant, making butter from the beginning- of the season to the end of October, aud thereafter turning to cheese manufacture. By doing that, suppliers would receive the utmost for their butter fat. There would bo a substantial difference this season bo-* tween the return from cheese and that from butter— anything between 2d and 3d per lb of butter fat. The disparity had been going on for years, and it meant a good deal to suppliers.