The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-11-27
IOIlIluulcateu-
OLE0MARGIlsE; OF, BUTTER FROM
ETET
NEW YORK. Nov. l.


portion OF Newspaper readers, never
until quite recently. and many Of Us
would have PASSED through life entire
Iy ignorant of it and its application
had it not been for the wonderful
chemist, NJ. Alfred Parof, inventor of
process by which butter is made from
beef suet. He has made happy choice
in selecting q name for his discovery.
Oleo (oil,) marganite (pearl, oil pearl.
Is it not splendid ? But it seems to
be more poetic than appropriate to
think of calling butter made from tai.
low such a beautiful name. I saw
on exhibition at the American Instf-
tute, beautiful specimens of butter,
said TO be manufactured from beef
suet by the Oleomargaine Manufac-
turing Company, at 241 and 247 East
56th street, n. Y. It is claimed to be
real butter (which Idon't doubt the
mode OF producing 1t, being alone ar
tifieia, (which in some cases I do
doubt.) For instance, We heaI that
the OleOmargaine Manufacturing
Company made supper for advertis-
ing purposes and invited prominent
business men of n. Y. to come and
partake Of choice delicaeies, among
which should be Oleomargaine. Two
dishes were placed before the adyer-
tising mediums and they were told
that one was the best Orange Co.
butter that could be found in the
market, and the other fresh and fra
grant Oleomargaine, and that they
would please tell (which was which. I"
A majority gave the manufactured
article the preference. Perhaps 1t
might have been the case, that both
plates were from Orange county,
and perhaps not 4; but to remove all
doubts in the matter 1 determined to
go to the factory and see for myself
the wonderful process.
In the Office of the Co. at East Seth
street, 1 addressed a very pleasant
appearing man, who seemed glad to
see me, and informed him that ]
wished to see the establishment. We
passed through the gate into the oper-
ating room and j was introduced to a
tall man with black whiskers, SEEM
ing to be the foreman or superinten-
dent who was requested to show me
around, which he promptly COM
menced to do by asking me if want
ed to buy "Stock or Territory"
l"Why" said /, "do you sell the right?''
"Oh, yes, we are selling the right to
use this process in many of the princl-
Ipal cities On the United States" 1
stated 1 was no speeulator but an
earnest seeker after information and
any facts he could afford me abOut
this wonderful business would be duly
appreciated, etc.
"Well," said he, "we make Orange
Co. butter of tallow. You see that
vat over yOnder. We grind the leaf
tallow up in that and press the oil out
Of it with this press here and then
make the butter of the oil you see rum
ming down into those pans there" /
remarked that it was e very unique
as well as scientific process, and see
ing that he had finished his piece ad-
ded: at is so easily comprehendedp'
He remarked about the immense pow
er of that press and quietly went into
a fit Of chronic silence. The room
was filled with an intense sickening
smell of tallow which is almost un-
bearable to one not accustomed to it,
and as 1 wished to hurry through and
getaway from it l passed across the
room alone and examined the vat.
The man of whiskers sent an Irish.
man across to me, who informed me
that it was contrary to orders to be
looking around alone. readily quit
looking around and retired, thinking
l had seen enough Of it. The process
of making butter from suet is simply
as follows: The suet is bought up at
the slaughter houses, taken to the but
ter factory and by meat chopper
minced up and put with an equal
quantity of water into a vat or boiler
in which is coiled a steam pipe.
The whole mass is then brought ia
a temperature OF about 10 degrees
Fahrenheit. When in this state it is
stirred for perhaps 80 minutes, then
allowed to settle and the scraps go to
the bottom, and the oleine and stearine
rises on the water when it is drawn
off into another vat and allowed to
partially cool. 1t is then put into
small cloth sacks, holding about four
pounds each and placed in double
rows between zinc sheets, tier upon
tier, and subjected to a powerful pres.
sure. The oil runs into pans below
and the stearine, amounting to about
80 per cent, remains in the sacks and
is sold to the candle makers. The oil
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Is per cent of pure milk or Is pounds
Of Oleine to 2 quarts of milk. Salt and
coloring matter being added is is kept
to a required temperature and churn-
ed into butter at this stage OF the pro-
ceedings.
We read about the "air being redo
lent with the perfume of butterp that
is destined to take the place of the
best dairy butter and reduce the price
thereof to ruinous rates. 1t certainly
has not reduced the price of real but
ter, for good butter is higher in New
York now than it was one year ago
Notwithstanding the panic. 1t GER
tainly has had no effect on the price
of butter and therefore it is not to be
supposed that it has taken the place
of it to any noticeable extent. A very
prominent commission man of this
city, the only one with whom I talk
ed that had tested II, said that it made
about as good butter as chalk and wa
ter did milk
Upon the whole, 1 conclude it is a
huge speculation, and some sharp
men will make money and some who
are not so sharp will lose by it. The
object seems to be to sell territory at
immense figures by organizing stock
companies and selling the stock.
Among the provisions of the new
Cons stitntion prepared by the Conven-
tion of Pennsylvania, which recently
closed its labors, are the following:
To prohibit the appropriation OF
money raised by taxation for eduea-
| tional PURPOSES. for the support OF any