Nationally Recognized

ID: 1014 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Library of Congress ~ Creator: Russell Lee
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Nationally Recognized

After the process of obtaining the cottonseed oil was compelte, workers prepared products such as cottonseed meal, cake, hulls, linters, and mixed feed. The meal and mixed feed were sold throughout the nation under the trade name Longhorn.

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