The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24
THE COW.
The boast of Aeraldrv, the pomp Of power,
And all that beauty. al rat wealth e'er gave.
Aw lit alike the inev table hour
The path of glory lead bu to the grave.

The boast of Aeraldrv, the pomp Of power
| And al that beauty. sll tat wealth e'er gave.
Aw lit alike the inev table hour
The paths of glory lead blu to the grave.
| In the spring fuller crimson comes upor
the robins breast in the spring the wantoI
lapwing gets himself another nest; in thu
spring the lowing herds wind slowly DER thu
lea; in the spring q young mans fancy
| lightly turns to thoughts of butter. During
| the winter he has experienced the fourteen
varieties of bad butter which that greal
dairyman, Henry Ward Beecher, enumerates
in his pheasant Talk About Fruits, Flow
| ers and Farming" and the hundred and
fourteen varieties which other people have
| enumerated in their unpleasant talk upoI
kindred subjects. Bnt there is an invisible
association between the churn and the May
| moving. The green grass irresistibly sug
| gests the COW. The COW is the literal en-
bOdiment of the milk of human kindness
The milk of human kindness makes the
only butter fit to eat, and it was quoted il
yesterdays Times at 25 cents.
While Illuminating on the grass and the
spring and the COW and the market, his eye
turns With beating heart to his erudition
Of parting day which the curfew tOlled
but the knell of the retreating COW. The
last dear gazelle is about to he destroyed
forever. The cows occupation, like Othel-
los, is gone. Butter is no longer to be made
from the COW, but Of that other article which
is spoken of in Hamlet as "Adversity's sweet
milk, philosophy" Butter is to be made
hereafter out Of philosophy, with some
allowance Of fat. The name of the con-
querer of the COW is Albert Peraf.
Until the dawn of Paraf, the history of
butter has been the heroic age of the cow
The luxury of golden butter was little
known among the early nations of antiquity
until they paid homage to the diet of the
cow. Then they gave the COW her elevated
place in mythology. Then they associated
her with the gods, and worshiped her in
the temples and made her conspicuous fig
ure in professions and pageantry. We know
how high the Jews valued her; what trades
the patriarchs delighted to make when she
was the commodity; how, indeed, they orig
nally exhibited in their rather extensive
stock yards that exquisite acuteness, vul-
carly called Over-reaching, which our Chi
cagO bulls and bears SO delight to initiate on
the cor Ter of w ashingtOn and LaSalle streets
The saints of the Old Testament were en-
thusiasts on the cow. Jael is declared to be
above all women because when her husband
asked water, she gave him milk and "she
brought forth butter in lordly dish" 1t
was on account of her cream that the cow
obtained recognition in botany, and where
men cannot have herself, they call flowers,
plants and trees by her sweet name. Now
Ill this is ended. Albert Paraf has demon
'trated that butter is not inseparable from
he COW; that the relation between the COW
md butter is the same relation that exists
between green cheese and the moon. The
ohn <ho &c Ia s.,
resher fields and pastures new. The butter |
# the future is to be made of tallow.
Factories for the manufacture of oleO-
margarine arc springing up in the East
ike mushrooms, and. unlike that hasty |
pasmodic, they threaten to stay up. Mas
is resolved to make a speciality of
allow butter, SO as to get even with Con-
ecticut and her wooden nutmegs. The
utter factory is placed in natural proximi-
y to the slaughter yard. A man selects the
est of the fat-the rough tallow or suet-
hree pounds of tallow making two pounds
butter. The fat is taken to the butter
lctory in zinc cans or barrels, and thrown
ito great vat where it is cleaned by
alter and carbonate of soda. After ex-
it goes into a hopper, and is
'ushed into lardy paste. Every day
rings to the factory a quantity o. sleeps
OihdCAS AAOAA "AASA VAO pOpSiA 10 GA
acted.
The fat is thrown into water; steam pipe 8
; the bottom accomplishes dissolution the I
ltracted pepsine is then thrown in the
brous particles drop to the bottom; scum
rms on the top; this is skinned eff, and
ie pure oil is run into casks and cooled. ..
hen girls and boys draw it thence into ,
men bags containing about two. pounds :
lch, and the bags are subjected to pres :,
ire of $50 tons, which forces the oil i. .
rough the linen into a receiver. The re- /. .
due in the bags is stearine, and is made :
7 another factory into candles. The :
is poured into a great churn; the COW :
ceives very slight farewell recognition,
x gallons Of milk being added to $50 /.
funds of oil annatto and . tfron are :
lded; the mixture is churned for three
'urs, and then is hardened in a wooden
ough, partially filed with cold water. !,
nally, it is sailed and packed. ! !
Now comes the important question: VIII; =
the purpose of this displacement of the !.
W. Is it better butter! Scarcely, be- !,
use the highest ambition of oleomargarine :
to be as good as the product Of the !,
mammal. Is it cheaper =
teri No; at least so far as the consume r =
concerned. OleOmargarine sells for Is !.
nts in the present market, and must go up :,
d down according to the price of tallow. r
fChicago Times. =
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