The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-12-22

speaks hlghly OF the product to find that II Is
freely bought as the best quality of dairy butter
when sold under that disguise. Under the
name of oleomargarine there is a popular pre-
JUDGE to the product, and ifyou ask the reason
why, you will generally receive the answer;
at is filthy compound. extracted from refuse
fat and tallow." 1t is strange, really: to find so
much ignorance in people of education, when
if they were to take only little pains, they
would find that there was nothing really ob.
| iectiOnable in the product or its name. The
name itsefmay be just as wellappled to dairy
butter, as il Is merely the compound of olein
and margarine-the main components of both
artificial and dairy butter Again as to the
product itself nothing can be purer, healthier
or mort simple. 1t is no chemical invention
but the mere discovery of a law of nature that
the French chemist Mege brought into practi-.
cal use. When he was satisfied that butter was
directly derived from that fat of the COW he
commenced his experiments on the pure caul
fat, and after some patient study produced the
pure oil known as oleomargarine, which was
aftcrward churned up into butter. In the
English and French commercial reports this
substitute for dairy butter is spoken of in the
very highest terms, and has already taken the
place ofal second and third class dairy produce.
1t is invaluable as butter for warm climates or
to be used at sea, as it keeps sweet and pure for
such length of time Prof Charles f. Chand-
Ter of Columbia College, probably the first an.
alytical chemist and expert of the day, speaking
OF olcomargal Inc, says: 81 am acquainted with
the butter product, such rs Is made by the
Commercial Manufacturing Company, and
have used the same. | find it to be good
and wholesome article of food, and equally as
free from injurious effects as the butter made
from cream The process described in the
Mege patent for making this artificial butter
in no way produces any injurious effect upon
the product and when artificial butter is pro
duced by strictly following the Mege patent as
to temperature, &c, the product cannot be dis
tinguished from the butter made from cream,
either by the taste or smell. "Such an endorse
ment as the above should certainly carry
weight in community of people of intelli-
gencc.
The art of extracting butter from the suet of
the animal may be classed rs one of the great
discoveries of the day, and like all other inven-
tons that have been of benefit to the world, has
brought out a number of spurious limitations.
The sewing machine was no sooner invented
than the lawyers were busy with suits attacking
all infringers, and, as the law in regard to
patents is very clear, the inventor is generally
well protected Rubber, when untitled as an
article ofcommercial manufacture, was patent
ed by the Goodyear Company, and the victory
they obtained over the dentists that were
utilizing the substance in the manufacture of
gums, is still fresh in the mind Of every one,
and shows how iealously the law protects the
holder of patcut. The United States Dairy
Company have vigorously prosecuted all who
have attempted to manufacture butter from
animal fats. The success of eleomargarine,
and its value rs an important article of food,
has induced Il number of people to attempt its
manufacture in cellars and out-of-the- way
places, and although the detectives employed
by the company are not always able to cap.
ture the offenders, they have already broken
up Il number of their establishments and ex-
pect to free the city from them. 1t is not
merely the robbery of the patent Of which the
Dairy Company complain, but the injury to
their business, caused by the propagation OF an
impure product, containing deleterious com
pounds and still called oleomargarine. The
butter that they manufacture is as pure and free
from any Objectionable matter as it is possible
for butter to be- and the limitations have never
come up to its standard. As the right of the
United States Dairy Company to the Mege
patent has never been disputed the defendants
charge, and had Injunction. enttiru against
them. The Dairy Company is also going to
take measures against all dealers that may be
found with any of the spurious butter in their
possession, as they are determined to protect
the public against such limitations of their
product at all hazards, The dealers are equal
| ly liable with the manufacturers, and all the
grocers should take. pains to inquire who has
the legal right to manufacture eleomargarine
before they make their purchases 1t must be
either through ignorance or cupidity that they
can make IA mistake on this point and in
either case they deserve to be punished.
The Commercial Manufacturing Company,
the lessees of the patent for New York and
New jersey from the United States Dairy
Company, are now manufacturing an enor-
nous quantity of artificial butter, but they do
not seek to disguise it, as every package is
labelled "Oleomargarine; and they desire it
to he sold as such, as the product is so pure
and sweet that they invite all investigation,
and are perfectly prepared to compete with
dairy butter-N. Y. Sun.