The Republican journal., 1873-07-03
A New Kind of Butter.

The New York Sun says: A company
has been organized in this city with capi
tai of $500, 900, for the manufacture of but
ter. 1t is claimed that the butter is genu-
inc, the means Of producing it being alone
artificial; in other words, the discoyerer
atfirms that the article is not merely buty
rous, but in every respect the complete and
perfect thing, as agreeable, nutritious and
usabe as the best Orange county butter.
A gentleman of recognized ability as
chemist is the fortunate introducer of this
new wonder.
Several persons of wealth have bought
stock, and in week or two the manufac-
ture will be conduct, d on a very large
scale. The temporary offices of the Oleo
Margarine Manufacturing Company, as the
corporation is called, are at 40 Broadway,
and their mandatory in Forty fifth street.
Arrangements have been made for securing
better accommodations in Fiftieth street,
and very soon the market will be supplied
with the new product. At present the de-
mand for the article is so great that it is
beyond the capacity of the company to sup
ply it. The profits are expected to be over
100 per cent.
As this city-made Orange county butter
is used in many of the most fashionable
hotels and restaurants, both for cooking
and for the table, it may be interesting to
the general reader to learn something
of the method in which it is made. In the
first place agents are employed to visit the
slaughter houses, and to buy up all the
beef fat usually styled suet. This suet is
carted to the butter factory and cleansed.
Then it is put into ordinary meat choppers
and minced fine. 1t s fterward placed in
a boiler with as much water in bulk as it.
self.
A steam pipe is introduced among the
particles of the suet and they are melted.
The efuse or membrane goes to the bottom
of the water, the oily substance floats and
is removed. This latter consists of butter
matter and stearine. A temperature of so
deg. melts the former, and leaves the
stearine at the bottom. The butter matter
or cream is drawn off, then about thirteen
per cent. of fresh milk is added, and the
whole is churned for ten or fifteen minutes
The result is Orance county butter at about
one-half the usual cost. The stearne is
sold at twelve cents a pound to the candle
maker, and the refuse at seven cents
pound to the manufacturer of food for
cattle.
All the leading steamship lines between
here and Europe are to be supplied this
summer with the newly invented butter. In
taste and appearance it is precisely similar
to the finest country butter, made from the
milk of live cows. Several of the leading
men in the butter trade have purchased
stock, as have also many Of the presidents
of the steamship lines and the propretors
Of the leading city hotels. Prof. r. Ogden
Doremus has testified to the success of the
new method of butter manufacture, and
prophesies great prosperity for the new
corporation.
q ntS hat
the new product will drive the live COW
butter out Of the market altogether. The
few unscientitic outsiders who are acquant-
ed with the facts now :irst made public, re-
gard the whole thing with amazement. 1t
seems extremely odd to them that the same
carcass which furnishes fresh steak for
breakfast should also supply the Orange
county butter which they spread upon their
accompanying hot rolls.