The daily gazette., 1878-04-10
FIFTH EDITION.
From the Ne,o York Herald Of to-day.
OLEOMARGARINE.
CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF ITS MERITS
In THE FARMRRs' cIuR

CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF ITS MERITS
| IN THE FARMERS CLUB.
DIR. \. S. Heath, President of the Farm
ers' Club, at its weekly meeting in Cooper
Institute yesterday, stated that Colonel
Battersby, a member of the club, had said
in an unguarded moment last week that
the members of the club were "conspira-
ItorS" against the farmers of the country.
de (the presldent) wished in the kind
hest manner but most emphatically to
ueny SO improper an accusation. The
labors. of the club, he continued, are la
bors OF love performed in no mans inter
est, but for the benefit of general agri-
culture, without money and without
| Ipflce Oleomargarine is eliminated from
a product OF the farm. The manufacture
er takes the raw material at five cents
per pound and makes it worth five times
hve cents per pound. The farmer is a
producer, the manufact Lrer Is "a produc-
er OF wealth, and 50 also is the mechan-
lc. the laborer the inventor, the philos-
opher, the chemist.
These all enchanee the values of the
products of the soil. Professor L.. b.
Arnold, of Rochester, gives the compost
tlon of butter as ows:-Stearine, the
most solid; pallnatin (oil containing the
colorihg matter), oleiue "a thin, only sub
stance, essential oils (of the food of cows,
the grasses). DR.. ii. A. Motifs analysis
Of butter and oleomargarine shows the
following results in 100 parts-
Butter. OleOmdrgdrine
falmatln. 20.33 22.32
Stearl ue........ 42.I1 46.2i
OIelne,. Zll 3U42
D',,yr;,' Essential oils of the
Canrin grasses after di-
Canr,hn BeStlOn,. ......... .9.l9 OO.32
Difference in essential oils in butter
more than IN oleomargarine, 1906 Acid
in oils combined with casein and butter
milk causes butter TO become rancid
when in contact with air. Bad butter is
made, nine times in ten, in a sovenly
and filthy manner. Cleanliness in butter
especially, is truly akin to godli-
ness. Butter comes from the cream of
the milk of the cow; oleomargarine from
the fat of the OK.
DIR. Heath said he wished to correct an
erroneous impression-to wit, that but
ter could not be made from the milk of a
human being. He knew that 1t could be.
COLONEL BATTERsBY's OPINION.
Colonel Battersby then said that this
was not secret but an open conspiracy
against the interests of the farmers. This
stuff should be dealt with in the Produce
EAchange, as mercantile speculation,
not here IN body that was established to
promote the interests of farmers and to
AID the production of pure butter from
pure milk. He claimed that oleomarga-
rlne was an impure article made from inn
pure materials.
A member wanted to know where the
Colonel got his information.
Colonel Battersby-From the slaughter
houses.
Member-Why don't you go to the fac
tory, where the article is manufactured
Without awaiting a reply DIR. Mott eX-
planned that oleomargarine was manufact-
lred from pure and cleanly materials, and
IN a thoroughly cleanly manner He
niu ntalned shat oleomargarine was purer
Than mne-tenshs Of the butter put on the
market.
MIR. Lawrence said that oleomargarne
was likely to become an article Of i'm
mense expectation, especially to the
southern countries, to suit the climates
Of which its manufacture could be readi-
ly regulated