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the hands of Brown and put in hands of Bradley & Layton.
Afternoon I went to see Brown. He raised no opposition on my statement that Brown Baskerville had lost their contract with Baskerville Process Co nor was there any tendency not to admit it. I appealed to his friendship for Baskerville and he readily volunteered all information showing undoubted good will 
1/ He says at present Baskerville process is not so valuable on account of low price of oil. 
2/ That the process is good for cottonseed, soya, corn palm and coconut oil and has been used successfully with every one of them
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3/ That saving amounts at from 2% to 12% of oil according to conditions but that on an average 4% oil can be saved.
4/ He doubts much whether it can be used [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] for linseed or tung oil or other drying oils
5/ Process requires somewhat more care than ordinary oil refinery process.
 6/ Process has no real advantage for very large refinery because contract of the latter is such as to make an allowance for loss and if their sellers find out they reclaim more oil than allowance is made for in their contracts, the contracts would be made accordingly. So that the Baskerville process is only employable with small refineries representing only about