The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-06
BEETER THAN BUTFER.
What Farmer Aiken KnoWs About Oleo-
margarine. ~,

inargaIano. s
flf $500
WAsHIEGToN, ID. O.. April II, 1880.
IN tie Editor Of Ehe Nc,cs and Courier
CsI you and your readers endure the in.
iiiction ofa few moro ideas upon the sub.
ject of OleomaTgarine2 DON'T protest
ior DO the dose palstable ar q eRseA iipg,
1T ls an established fact $iaas IN au ske
science of dietetics there 10 no rnose ei,.
ergeticcommercial product than Oleomar.
garine.
During The pest winter, butter dealers
in thu Dis.rict OF Columbia, Washington
City ead elsewhere have been arrested
FOR aelling real butter upon the allegation
that 1t was oleomaYggFine, s. his induced
the introduction If q bill into Congress
to appoint commission of Ave Gcientific
men 70 examine aud test, wherever found
and by every possible scientific appliance,
all substances known to be, or surposed
10 ba used in the production Of any poesi.
Ole compound that has been or may be
imposed upon the public con.
sumers as a substitute for natural butter.
and so faras possible recommend to Con.
greaa what legislation is necessary 10 pro.
Sect the honest dealerand the innocent
consumer. Aud for thfs purpose four
thousand dollais Ia asked TO be appropri-
a,ed. A snug little sporting fund for @
scientific tasting committee 70 spend ia
> LneirJaunts about tie country looking
i0ry oiepmRrgarino, Ind I venture TO
glggest, that If they would only take their
meg first through the South and taste
o vast deal of the stuff bartered for by our
country merchants, they would without
hesitation advise our people to buy oleo.
margarine Heyery t;me.n
Well, this bill was referred to che com.
te65dn agriculture, and by it tol O sub.
eotnnlittees Of which /, am member.
Our Iifst step was TO 60 TO headquarters
ana Investigate the manufacture OF the
aYticis; SO we wens 10 New York, and
there we found 4 concern In which moro
than half d million dollars had been inyes-
teu, turning out more than fifty thousand
pounds of.0!e0margarin dRiLy, manufac.
tnred after tho idendc..l pH0cetS as that
previously reported from Ba itaore bnt
ofeourse upon q tenfoId lafg eale. 5. ~
There are something more than two
Thousand besyes killed daily at the Glaugh-
ter houses in New York city, and they
average hearlY one hundred pounds Of
fat each, beside the kidney fat which can.
not be used in this mandatory. because,
alsy9t Iisis impossible to dive5t it of its
talloWy taste. But all the remaining fat
is daily sold, and delivered twics o day
to this'" Commercial Manufacturing Com
pany," lthe style of the company making
oieomargaYine,) who pay three cents per
pound more for the fat than the same
article brought in market anterior to the
establiahmens OF this manufactofy.. At
that time it brought thres and o half
CENTS per pound, now It brings aig aud "a
half About thirty fye per cent. of this
fat is oleomaEgaFine, forty-flve per cent.
tailoW, ten per cent. eseaFine, and the
balance waste. OF course q chemical
analysis would shoa great many other
remaining ingredients: such "a pal1dtia,
drdchip, captyiin, &C., Co., that nobody
understands but @ chemist I simply
give the proportion Of oleomsrgaFipe, taf-
low, etesrine and waste, which eogethef
make up that compound known as beef
fat.
Nov, ifthe cattle growers of the North.
west and Texas only Knew that thiB man
ufac.nry was adding at least three dollars
to the value of every average beef killed
in New York, and that the butchers there
were growing rich at the rate of six thous,
sand dollars per day, / imagine they
would hegin.to look into this matter. 30
This entire amount of foleomaTEaRine
is daily deposited with that we'll Known
and immense house of II. K. Thuri5ff68 s.
Co., who ere the sole agents of the Com.
merciRl Manufacturing Company, and
who assured me they sold IL as fast as it
vas now manufactured for honla c0nsump-
tion. This house once did an inmensa
trade in butter, but to-day they don't en-.
courage consignments of butter, prefer
ring to handle the oleomargafine, which
issold and consumed at homo rs rapidly
ssTcan be made. ss5 )
,2ors than dozen years ago an emf
nent F-snch chemiat, NJ. Mege, asked
come from that IN found. In milk which
makes butterY Heauspected that It was
absorbed from the animal tissues, and be-
gan q series of experiments to test it. He
treated some pieces OF CLEAN beef suet
with carbonate Of potash and pepsine
from the stomach of q sheep, and found
that the fat was in THE way easily sepa.
rated from tho cellular tissueg. This fat
was drawn of, and cooled and found to
harden or CONCEAL. It was then subjec.
ted TO hydraulic pressure, by which
means stearine and taateless oil wGa OBJ
aimed. Ten pounds Of thia Oil was mixed,
with four pintacf milk ard three pints Of
water and chnrned. The result was an
unusual quantity of @ substance that ia,
taste and consistency resembled butter.
sVuen dIeS4 lfQll tt5 WaSet4lkS was fOunu
toksepl an indefinite tin1s. a &C was eaten.
foind palatable, and by continued ex-
pertinent was found TO be q perfectly
wholesome article of diet. Mege at once
brought this product to the attention Of
che public by .iatenting his process ofEaau-
utacttring; money was subscribed, com.
pa.;ass were formed, and By 1874 eeveli
manufactures were established inFrance,
employing nser four hundred hands. The
ErGnsk aaoverhnient so.day recognize it
as iegiitifhHt0 siTtiicia 0zE v0fr.fii55Tus, and
the French ehemistB pfonouuce tas moro
wholesome than the unsavoFy ard rancid
buttereo fSeely bought ard sold among
the common people cf that country.
Theae facts copy from the Esgciycl0pe.
/ did Britdaaiea, which is, of course, stlE-
daFa authority. - :. - -
In 1879 Mr. Jas. Wilson, of New York,
purchased the patent for the manufacture
OF oleomsrgetine IL the LInitnA States,
end heB since that time established tiir-
teen E5ries tslfoug hpue the Uni6a !; the
largest bsing ia N Z York, where they,
employ two hnnd1ed hands in reliefs, the
work beginning 1--WE minutes after z2
/ O'clock Monday morning and not stop,
ping for q moment until Eve minutes be-
fore 10 Saturday night. All the fas this
company can buy is converted into tal-
low stearine and oil, and If they cenpet
dfriuSSElta t4heis sfis mn 81 ffsiys{ al Aha ri