Hard Soap from Alligator Pears. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Department of Agriculture, announces that its chemists have devised practical means of using the oil from cull avocados (alligator pears). The oil obtained from the Fuerte variety of avwado bv or solvent extraction has a dark m . exoression . .e n mlor by transmitted light and is red by reflected light. It is probably too dark for use as commercial edible oil although it has hut little odor and a pleasant fruity flavor. The oil, when saponified, makes a hard soap. Tests indicate that the oil dws not become rancid during a year's storage under ordinary mditions.-Chenz. Markets, 23,202 (Aug., 1928).
