The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-10-17
OLEOMARGERENE
"The Buffer of the Futui
what 10 Is and hOVg Made
Natural Butter from aIl
Artificial Cow.
The southern Dairy Company.
New and Novel Enterprise.

0 The ..SOufhern Dairy Company. AZ
New and Novel Enterprise.
OleOmargerine You don't kSF
what it is? Then read this article Aa
you will find out. You think, perhfs
that it is made from tallow, lard, refFe
grease or any other substance that ksl
anything like the consistency or quak
ties of butter. There you are ms.
taken. 1t is nothing more nor lbs1
than butter-plain, unvarnished butHr.
made from an artificial cow, accordiig
to a theory that is, at the same tine,
unique and plausible.
THE THEORY OF BUTFER o1tl>
The starting point and groundwork
OF the theory is, that the far of-eN'
aa.mn i aot ihh hshs agisoa mas demonstrated
that in it there is no fat, except fatty
acids, which, from their very nature,
can not be the physiological basis of
butter fat. Then experiment has
shown, in the case of cows and nurses,
too, that even after all food has been
taken from them for several days they
continue to give milk, and that the
mill K contains, for considerable length
of time, the ordinary properties Of
butter fat.
The female, however, under this
treatment, grows thin aud emaeiated,
and loses the rotundity Of figure con-
sequent upon the normal deposits of
adipose tissue.
These discoveries have: proven, con-
clusively, it is claimed, that the animal
I fat is the basis of butter fat, and that
the milk from which batter is made
borrows its cream fat from the adipose
tissues of the body.
THE DISCOVERY.
Then the question naturally and log
ically arose: "Why not extract from
the tissues of the animal, by an artif
cial process, the same ell that, being
put through plain mechanical process,
shall produce butter Identical with that
that is gotten from churning the milk
of the COW 2"
The question was pertinent; suggest
ed investigation; received it, and the
result has been what is 4nown as oleo-
margarine, or artificial tutter.
NJ. Mege Mauries, Frenchman, was
the first to succeed in the effort Of its
production, and the results of his ex-
periments were of course regarded with
incredulity and suspicion.
THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGG
1t was like a successful killing oi
the goose Of history, this turning by q
simple process, all the mt of an animal
into butter, and consequently there
was, and is still, much opposition tC
the comparatively new process. Bee
fat, If melted, makes ta4low, said the
critics, ''and tallow is not available as
butter. 1t makes very good candles
J burns very we'll lubricates machinery
but it won't do for the purposes O.
! eating and cooking-exeept among the
2 Esquimaux"i
: Oleomargerine, however, gained
ground in popular esteem, and begar
} in a short time to be largely used
3 Then it was said that, being inexpen.
sive, it must have been manufactured
from cheap, and perhaps unwholesom,
materials. An examination into tht
factories showed that this objection
q was groundIess. Then the genera
r swee ping charge, based upon DO par
: ticular suppositiou, was brought to tn
e effect that it was, without why 0
0 wherefore" as they say in Pinafore
5 "unft for use as an article of food; un
} wholesome and injurious"
> oLEoMARGINE IN THE LEGISLATURES
u In the Legislatures of several State.
= the question of its wholesomeness wa
:. discussed, and, notably in New York
n the new invention achieved hand
Z. some victory, the State Board 9
lie Health, through its president, cert
flying to the State Senate, that it wa
J. altogether 'good and wholesome"
Il Such is snort sketch of the butte
3, that is now being largely made in thi
n. country. The fact that wealthy CON
n pany has been organized here for th
d purpose of its manufacture has excite
4 some interest in Louisville, and ",
wishing to furnish what we deem iu
le terestiug information touching hi
as novel enterprise, have spared no pain
9, iu securing data for this article and i
n preparing it for the public.
es THE COMPANY AND BUILDINGS,
10 The company referred to consists
~ the following stockholders and difet
ID tors: Geo. T. Wood, secretary an
Us treasury; Jno. D. Taggart, Geo. Birc
john +. Norris.
al They have leased the building
Nos. Z and 10 on Third street, betwee
10 Main and the river, and have fitted
iss up with all necessary appliances. 1T
III building is 90 by 90 feet, four stori
high. Iu rear of the main buildin
W upon the lot which runs back 100 fe'
nu there is the building in which the
rs is first received for treatment.
" THE ARTIFICIAL COW.
by The process of artificial milkin
,er skimming, churnine and work, saltlr
at and packing, is very interesting.
The tissue used is the choice fat OF t
beef, such as "a regular patricia
finds upon his beefsteak, and IL
comes in the shape of immense we
or fakes, just as it comes from
- animal These large membrane
=; webs are thoroughly washed in tan
-, of water, containing large pieces
ms ns ice.
ter MILKING AND sTRAININd'
nts There are two constituent parts
bic this adipose tissue. that are to be ell
ut mated before the butter is gotten p'
M aud clear; the membranous sacks
i'm tissue. in which the fat is carried, a
see the stearine or pure tallow.
ian points of their respective departu
ves | yvill ha nofed