Show metal protected by oil i if the method of charging cottonseed oil with lead which is said to have been I 1 discovered is found practicable the value of that abundant product will be greatly increased the process as at present defined is of the utmost simplicity one gallon of pura cottonseed oil is placed in a suitably suit ablo iron vessel into which twenty pounds of molten lead are poured after a thorough stirring the lead separates into globules glo bules and when the oil has been poured off after cooling there is found to bo about seventeen pounds of lead the remainder having been absorbed by the oil un the lead being again melted and he operation repeated to the fifth pour lug of lead absorbed being fehd at each succeeding pouring tb total amount of lead absorbed is abom fn an pounds the oil thus charged with tad is then used as a paint being p plied in mie ordinary way to metallic surfaces it ia claimed that this liquid chich adheres closely and becomes very hard ia especially useful in protecting metals from oxidation or corrosion new lynnr legram |