Show Human Hair Strains Oil Other Kinds Also Useful Human hair able oble to withstand with with- withstand stand a pressure of six tons per square inch has an on Important place In American industry declares a writer In the Washington Star Practically all aU the cottonseed oil used for culinary purposes is strained through press cloth made of hair In the cottonseed oil mills a measured measured measured meas meas- quantity of ot cooked cottonseed is 13 In a strip of hair cloth and ond placed In a machine called a cake former where it Is slightly compressed to make a compact I mass The sake still covered with the cloth is then remove removed to an hydraulic press which squeezes the oil through the cloth The product is piped into a settling tank and vent tent to a refinery The Thc use of hair cloth for wrapping g g materials from which oil Is to be I c extracted by pressure comes down J from olden times For many years long long goat hair and wool 5 were used Afterward European manufacturers learned that the Asiatic camel hair was better on OD 7 account of Its length and stretching qualities and adapted It The camels camel's hair cloth was the first press cloth used In the United States In 1306 1906 the Boxer Rebellion in China almost cut of off the supply r r f of raw material and manufacturers were compelled to resort to goat thair hair llama hair cow tails horse horsetails tails cotton and finally human hair The Oriental disturbances which y J. cut off of the supply of camel hair 1 provided a source of almost unlimited unlimited unlimited un un- limited supply of raw material for forthe the manufacture of ot the new type of press cloth After overthrowing tho the Manchu dynasty the Ule proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed their new-found new liberty by cutting off oU their queues |