July 11, 2006

The inventive developments disclosed in this application include the following features and combinations thereof: extracting oil from spent bleaching earths for animal feed; using earths and acid water as soil amendment/fertilizer; efficient extraction of substances valuable to plants, animals, and humans from plant, animal, and fish oil soapstock, especially using the "interphase" emulsion from soapstock acidulation; use of "black paste" from oil refining as fertilizer component (nutrient source); use of interphase from agricultural oil refining, especially refining of non-degummed oils, as animal feed; use of "oil refining by-products to fertilizers" process and/or KOH refining in conjunction with "Miscella"-type hexane refining or "Zenith" process refining; fertilizers containing silica/silicates from by-products of agricultural oil refining; use of higher-sodium oil refining by-products as fertilizer for sodium-tolerant plants; using by-products of sugar beet refining as nutrient source; agriculturally useful potassium soaps from oil refining; products of the refining of non-degummed agricultural oils having useful biocidal or other biological properties; the use, as a feed additive, of potassium soapstock from the caustic refining of agricultural oils using a potassium caustic (KOH), especially with non-degummed oils, which has unexpected advantages over the use of soapstock from sodium caustic (NaOH) refining, especially from degummed oils.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS/INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE This application is related to the following patents and applications, which are hereby incorporated by reference: Daniels, U.S. Pat. No. 4,836,843, issued Jun. 6, 1989 Daniels, U.S. Pat. No. 5,308,372, issued May 3, 1994 Daniels, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/462,417, filed Jun. 5, 1995 Daniels, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/261,863, filed Jun. 17, 1994 This application also claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. .sctn.119(e) of U.S. Provisional Applications Nos.: application Ser. No.: 60/037,761 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,762 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,763 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,764 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,765 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,766 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,767 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,768 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,769 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/037,770 Filing Date: Feb. 13, 1997 application Ser. No.: 60/038,079 Filing Date: Mar. 6, 1997 This application is also a divisional under 35 U.S.C. 120 of application Ser. No. 09/023,320, filed 13 Feb. 1998, now U.S. Pat. 6,426,113, issued 30 Jul. 2002, which is hereby incorporated by reference.

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