Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-05-14
Soap-Fat Butter.
Extensive Frauds in the Butter
Trade-The AIanutactOries Of o.
Ieomargaffne.

a Select committee OF the Out
ter and Cheese exchange met yes:
terday to consider what action
must be taken tn stop the exten-
sive frauds ptrpetrated In selling
spurious compound of animal fat,
suet, milk and oil, known as oleo-
margarine, which has been forced
upon the market. 1t seems that
a company has been i'll operation
here Tor several months, whose
business has been to bmbe mer-
chants Of good repute dealing in
butter to accept its manufacture,
and sell this stuff under the name
of butter. The manufacturers
and their accomplices have sue.
ceeded 10 selling tons Of this bogus
butter to the mill operatives in
Patterson, N. j, and the miners in
Pennsylvania, and in flooding the
markets of the West Indies
Complaints are received daily by
sellers in New York, accompanied
with the threat that the defraud.
ed purchaser will never buy an
other pound of butter from them
under any consideration. The en-
tire butter trade III this market is
in Jeopardy. Interpretations ofthe
oleomargarine manufacturers have
been quietly but surely extended,
until at this time manufactures of
the counterfeit butter are in oper-
alton in Brooklyn, New York, Jer-
sey 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 un-
der warm pressure and extract tile
oil, and by churning it with milk
turn it into what they call butter.
Large quantities were sold last fall
to VESSELS going to Europe. The
captains of those vessels are look
ing for the men who sold it 10
them for the purpose of iLficting
personal chaslisement. They say
it ruined everything in which it
became an ingredient. 1t has
been colored with annato and 9th
er chemicals to give it the appear
auce of good butter. and has been
given q flavor and smell by the
use of milk, so that when the
grease is fresh the casual dealer on
the butter marketis easily deceived
Not so with the experienced deal
ers. They can de ect it, to the
shame of some of them, they have
dealt largely in it for the sake Of
large immediate profits. So bold
have operators became that a
large quantity was sent to the
Commissioners Of Charities ard
Corrections TO be used for feeding
the paupers. 1t was rejected by
the Commissioners.
I 1t is reported that the fat Of
dead horses and other offal Ia,
been introduced in:o this 20 called
"butter." The housewiyes Of
New York have Become alarmed
and will not 1ouy any butter taar
crumbles IKE rich cheese under th,
blade Of the knife. A striking pc
culiGrity of this "bosch" as it i.
branded ly law in GERMANY
that it is absolutely useless in cake,
or pastry, making the dough tor
"Short." At a moderate tempera-
ture. considerably below that al
which pure butter melts, it liqui.
fies, aud soon turns to rancid oil
) These properties were noticed in
the oleomargarine shipped last fall
to the tropics. Now the opera.
tors are mixing two-thirds 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.
6rkins. Newark has factory for
this stuff. So has New Haven
Rhode Island has been afflicted
with it, and the authority of the
State Legislature has beeninvoked
to prevent its manufacture.
The cost of manufacturing ole.
margarine is stated at fourteen
c. nts per pound, and during the
winter just past t has sold is high
as thirty cents. The cupidity of
unprincipled dealers has been
touched aud large companies are
forming to increase the supply
and to continue the fraud. Fla
ming prospectnses stating how but
ter can be made from "Oil of tai
low" to reap large fortunes, and
how quart of milk can be made
into a pound of butter have been
circulated broadcast. The butter
and cheese exchange meeting yes
terday adopted resolutions de-
nouncing this fraud and pledging
the members not to deal in it
! Another meeting will be held TO.