LINSEED’S PRODUCTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 9

LINSEED’S PRODUCTS

OIL FOR PAINTERS AS WELL AS FEED FOR CATTLE The steady growth of our Dominion's prosperity depends largely on her manufactures, and everyone can help to develop these by asking wherever possible for New Zealand-made goods. "Moose" linseed oil is an entirely local product, from the growing of the seed to the final stages of the oil manufacture. To the farmer, the growing of linseed serves a useful purpose in the rotation of crops. Further, the planting and harvesting of the crop are both later than other farm crops, this being one of the reasons the farmer has for growing linseed, as it distributes his busy season over a longer period. The harvesting is done in the usual way by reaper and binder, and the seed threshed from the stack. After harvesting the seed is shipped to the oil-pressing mills, where it is cleaned and ground, then heated by steam and pressed until the oil flows freely out of the press, while the meal is retained in slabs of suitable size for handling for cattle feed, etc. There are, therefore, two indirect but substantial benefits from the crop toward the progress of New Zealand — ‘‘Moose’’ linseed oil. for painters, and "Moose" nuts and meal for cattle. Buyers of “Moose” oil may rely upon its giving absolute satisfaction. Among many testimonials received is one from Mr. Thomas Bailey, painter and decorator, of Auckland, who states:— “We have been using ‘Moose’ oil to the exclusion of all imported brands for some time, and we are convinced that it is the best oil we can possibly employ in the New Zealand painting trade.’*