Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-05-14
SOaP-et Butter.

II SeIecL COmmlCEee o. a. D..
and Cheese Exchange of this outer
on Monday the goth, to consider wet
action should be taken to stop the ez-
tensive frauds perpetrated in selling a
spurious compound of animal fat,suet.
milk and oil, known as oleomarparine.
which has been forced upon the mar
ket. 1t seems that a company has
been in operation here for several
months, whose business has been to
bribe merchants of good repute deal
ing in butter to accept its manufacture
and sell this stuff under the name of
butter. The manufacturers and their
accomplices have succeeded in 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 In
dies. Complaints are received daily
by sellers in New York, ACCOMPANIED
with the threat that the defrauded pur-
chasers will never buy another pound
of butter from them under any con-
sideration. The entire butter trade of
this market is in jeopardy The ope-
rations of the oleomargarine manufac-
turers have been quietly but surely ex-
tended. until at this time manufacto-
ries 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 butch
ers' shops, and suet from the sIaugh-
ter houses, put the mass under warm
pressure and extract the oil, and by
cnurning it with milk, turn it into what
they call butter, Large quantities were
sold last fall to vessels going to Eu-
rope. The captains of those vessels
are looking for the men who sold it to
them, for the purpose of inficting per-
sonal chastisement They say that it
ruined everything in which it became
an ingredient It has been colored
with annato and other cyemicals to
give it the appearance of good butter,
and has been given flavor and smell
by the use of milk, so that when the
grease is fresh, the causual dealer on
the butter market is easily deceived.
Not so with the experienced dealers.
They can detect it, but, to the shame
of some of them, they have dealt large
ly in it for the sake of large imme-
mediate profits. So bold have the op-
erations become that large quantity
was sent to the Commissioners of
Charities and Corrections to be used
for feeding the paupers. It was re-
| iected by the Commissioners.
1t is also reported that the fat of
dead horses and other offal has been
introduced into this so-called ebutter.'
The housewives of New York have
become alarmed, and will not buy any
butter that crumbIes like rich cheese
under the blade Of knife. A strik-
ing popularity of this 'bosch'-as it is
branded by law in Germany-is that
it is absolutely useless in cakes or
pastry, making the dough too short
| At a,moderate temperature, consider
ably below that at which pure butter
meIts, it liquifies, and soon turns to
rancid oil. These properties were no
ticed in the oleomargarine shipped
last fall to the tropics. Now the op
orators are mixing two-thirds good
butter with the fraudulent compound,
working it over with sweet pickle, and
putting the mass up for the trade in
Welsh tubs and half firkins. Newark
has a factory for the stuff. So has
New Haven. Rhode Island has been
afflicted with it, and the authority of
the State Legislature has been invoked
to prevent its manufacture.
The cost of manufacturing eleomar-
garine>is stated at IA cents per pound
and during the winter just passed il
sold as high as 80 cents. The cupidity
of unprincipled dealers has been
touched, and large companies -art
forming to increase the supply and tC
: continue the fraud. Flaming pros
pectuses stating how butter can b
made from coil and tallow" to real
large fortunes, and how ga quart Q
e milk can be made into apound of but
: ter,' have been circulated broadcast
l The Butter and Cheese Exchang
e meeting yesterday adopted resolution
:. denouncing this fraud and pledgin
the members not to deal in it. Ar
k other meeting will be held to-day
: Among the remedies proposed is
!, Federal law requiring every butte
: package to be branded with the tru
e name of its contents Journal {
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