Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes, Vol. 2 of 2 A description of the special methods used in the production of each individual oil and fat will be given in the following chapter. Here it must suffice to glance at the modern methods of preparing, crushing, and expressing the oleaginous seeds, as carried out in the anglo-american system of seed crushing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.