A headline in North Carolina Agriculture and industry—“Studies on Deordering of Menhaden Fish Oil”—leads to two hasty conclusions. Further perusal disclose that one’s heart, if it beat with sympathy for Morehead City, Beaufort, and their lovely environs, has been too soon made glad.
The headline, in fact, is accurate. It is only excited to fervent a wish. For whereas the article has to do with the removal of the slightly unpleasant odor of the oil of the “fat back” as finally extracted for commercial purposes, we had begun to imagine the end of those scents which now and again come across leagues of water from the factories, so potent as even to desiccate the penultimate romantic setting of a boat with a taut sale gliding over the track of the moon on the waters.
We learn from the article that menhaden oil is useful for such things as tempering steel, currying leather, linoleum and soap-making. It is a prime carrier for paints, and for painting smokestacks is no plus ultra. We can well believe it an upstanding article, as all nostrils its aroma has painted will testify.
What the State College scientists are aiming at is so to eradicate the bouquet of the menhaden’s final protest as to make its product suitable for food as well as varnish and pigment, and the other manifold employments.
We wish them all success, but is there any hope in the way of filtering the breeze attending the first processes of its manufacture?
--Raleigh Times
From page 4 of The Beaufort news, May 27, 1926
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