The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-06
We takathe folhwing Interesting

| Ne takQxthe fokAWmg Interesting
article from = late number a. the New
Yosk Joarnal of Comnerce:
n select eommittee of the Butte.
and Cheese Exchange met yesterday
to consider what action should be Ia
| ken to stop the extensive frauds per-
pertrated In selling a spurious com
pound of animal fat, suet, milk and
| oil, known as oleomargarine, which
has been forced upon the market 1t
seems that a company has been IN OPP
| Grafton here for several months.
whose business has becn-to bride mer-
chants of good repute dealing in but
ter to accept its manufacture, and sell
this stuff under the name of butter.
The manufacturers aud their accom-
>plices have succeeded in selling tons
of this bogus butter TO the mill opera
tives in Paterson, N j., and the mi
ners in Pennsylvania, and In flooding
the markets of the West indies. Com
plants are received daily by sellers in
New York, accompanied with the
threat that the detrauded purchasers
will never by another pound Of butter
from them under any consideration.
The entire Butter trade Of this mar
ket is in jeopardy. The operations of
the oleomarrarine manufacturers have
been quietly but surely extended I'M
til at this time manufactures of the
counterfeit butter are in operation in
Brooklyn, New York, Jersey City,
Hoboken and Boston.
The company gather grease from
dwelling houses, fat from the butchers
shops, and suet from the slaughter
houses, put the mass under warm
pressure an extract the oil, and by
chnrning it with milk, turn it into
what they call butter Large quanti-
ties were sold last fall to vessels going
to Europe. The captains of those
vessels are leok ing for the men who,
sold it to them, for the purpose Of in
flicting personal chastisement. They
say that it ruined everything in which
it became IA Ingredient 1t has been
colored with anrato and other chcmi-
Gals to give it the appearance of good
butter. and has been given flavor
and smell by the use of milk, so that
hen the grease is fresh, the casual
dealer on the butter market is easily
deceived. Not so with the experience
ed dealers. They can detect it, but,
to the shame of some of them, they
have dealt largely in it for the sake of
large immediate profits So bold have
the operators become that a large
quantity was sent to the Commission
ers of Charities and Corrections to be
used for feeding the paupcrs. 1t was
rejected by the Commissioners.
IL is reported that the fat of dead
horses and other offal has been intro
duced into this so called butter"
The housewives of New York have
become alarmed, and will not buy any
butter that crumbles like rich cheese
under the blade of a knife. A strik-
ing peculiarly of this bosch il
is branded by law in Gcrmany-is
that ii is absolutely useless in cakes
or, pastry, making the dough too
short" AT n moderate temperature,
considerably below that at which pure
butter melts, it liquities, and soon
turns to rancid OIL These properties
were noticed in the olcomargarine
shipped last fall to the tropics. Now
the operators are mixing two-thlrds
good butter with the fraudulent com
pound, working it over with sweet
pickle, and putting the mass up for the
trade in Welsh tubs and half frkins,.
Newark has factory for this stuff; so
has New Haven. Rhode Island has
been afflicted with il. and the auihori-
fy of the State Legislature has been
invoked to prevent its manufacture.
The cost of manufacturing oleomar-
garine is stated at Ia cents per pound,
and during the winter just passed it
sold as high as 30 cents The cupidity
of unprincipled dealers has been
touched, and large companies are form
ing to increase. :he supply and to con-
tinue the fraud. Flaming prespeetu-
ses stating how butter can he made
from oil of tallowp to reap large for
tunes, and how "A quart of milk can
be made into pound OF butter" have
been circulated broadcast. The But
ter and Cheese Exchange meeting
yesterday adopted resolutions de-
noancing this fraud, and pledging the
members not to deal in it. Another
meeting will be held tot day. Among
the remedies proposed is Federal
law requiring every butter package to
be branded with the true name of its
cO0tentS.