A TALLOW TREE.
This remarkable tree is a native China. In the Island of tis of oil' and tallow are extracted from its fruity which is gathered, when the tree Jias-loat-'its leaves. The twigs bearing the-fruit are cut down aiid carried to a farm yard, where the seed is stripped off and put into a wooden cylindrical box, open at one end and pierced with holes at-the opposite one. The box is then suspended in a cylindrical kettle containing water, and the diameter of which differs but little from that of the box. The water is then made to boil, and the steam, penetrating into the box, softens the seeds, andv facilitates the .the tallow. . After about a nuaJßPlran hour's exposure to steam, the seeds are poured intoa steam mortar, .where they are stirred about until all the tallow has t been separated in asemi-liquid state. It is.afterwards poured into a cylinder with a hole in the,bottom, through which it is driven through the action of a press. It comes out perfectly white, free from all impurities, and soon becomes solid.— Galignani's Messenger.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2115, 8 October 1885, Page 2
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183A TALLOW TREE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2115, 8 October 1885, Page 2
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