The Archive · 1937

Germany Gets Oil

FROM GRAPE SEED

Husks as Fodder, Skins for Tartaric Production Berlin, Dec, 28.

Oil from grape seeds is the latest product of the German laboratories, it is announced here.

Experiments during the last wine season along the Rhine and Mossel have been so successful that over a million litres of grape seed oil are expected to be produced next year.

This newest addition in the German Four-Year Plan will be used principally for household purposes but can also be adapted to technical needs.

Hulls of the seeds after oil has been pressed out, can be used as forage for animals, Grape skins can be utilized to produce tartaric.

Production of grape seed oil and the utilization of grape residues v meanwhile be left to private enterprises but it is predicted a new industry will come into being and that vintners will be given an added source of income by being able to sell what was once a problem to

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