Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-20
Olaomargarine.

ter made out of beef fat. 1t hss
been more largely nsed in this eli y
the past Winter thsn ever before
Several merchants engaged IN he
butter trade have recently been CON-
suited on the subject, one of whom
expressed the opinion that fully one-
half of the retail dealers ia New York
and Brooklyn have sold the article
and the most of them as reel butter;
another says one-third promi
nent firm on Warren street believes
that ten or twelve thousand pack
ages have been cold each week "a
package contains fifty or sixty
pounds many others say that for
several weeks their sales Of butter
fell off fifty per cent.
Oleomargarine has also been sold
in Philadelphia at the rate of eight
or ten thousand pounds per day,
and as here, used in restaurants,
hotels, and among the poorer class
of people. A general estimate re-
Gently made placed the oleomagarine
grocers there at more than two
thirds of the entire number. Here
tofore about 125, 900 pounds of but.
ter have been consumed each day
on the table and for cooking pur-
poses, by the people OF the Quaker
City.
By recent inquiry reporter Of
the Evening Post learned that there
are now ten oleomargarine factories
in the United States, the first having
been establish in this city in 1876.
In France, where the invention ori-
ginated with Mage's discovery of
the relation between milk and beef
fat, the manufacture of oleomargar-
inc has become an important indus
try. In Holland there are no less
than seventy-four factories in which
the oleomargsrine oil is churned,
aud q considerable part of their pro-
duct is shipped to England where it
is sold under the name of "butter.
ine." There are also factories in
Germany.and IN Russia there are two
large factories for the oil only, which
is sent to other countries to be
churned. The establishments in this
country consume about four million
pounds of beef fat weekly, which is
equivalent TO half that quantity
when it is made into "butter."
Adult two-thirds of the product OF
this fat are shipped in the form of oil
to Europe, chiefly to Holland, where
it is churned in the buttsrine fac
tories. Of the remaining one third,
which is churned here, about one
half is exported, while the rest goes
into home consumption.
In both New York and Peansyl.
vania laws have been passed requir.
ing all dealers in this article to sell
it as oleomargarine, with tub or
frkin so stamped and though this
may be the case in the wholesale
trade, the law is continually and all
most universally violated by retail.
ers. The temptation to deceptive
traffic is due, it is said, to the pre-
JUDGES of customers-b but for the
fact that by selling the oleomargar-
inc as butter, the dealers could OBJ
tain a much higher price. One re-
taller in Brooklyn, who had been
selling about fifty tubs of oleomar-
garine week, at twenty-eight cents
pound, as butter, becamed alarmed |
lest he should be prosecuted, and |
bought quantity of the best butter
be could obtain for twenty six cents
pound. His customers, who had |
before been entirely sati' fed i'm
mediately began complain of the
butter, and returned it on his hands. |
But this does not appear to happen
often for it is hard to tell the differ.
euce between the Limitation" and |
the second or poorer qualities of
butter. But under no circumstances
is a man justified in selling this
product for other than it is, and the
efforts which are being made to
punish the violators of the law, we
trust will meet with entire success.
The prominent grocery house of
Thur Der & Company deal more
largely in oleomsrgarine than any
firm in the United States. Mr.. a
X. Thurber, who was president of
the International Dairymen's Fair
last year, but now succeeded by f.
d. Moulton, expresses the opinion
that eventually there will be only
two kinds of butter in the market
the finest creamery butter and oleo-
margarine. The latter would never
displaee the best quality of butter,
but it was superior TO seventy five
per centum OF the butter now put
on the market. He believes that it
will be a great benefit to the mas
SEES who cannot afford to pay for
high-priced butter; they will find
1t much better and cheaper article
than the poor butter which they
now generally use. The wholesale
price pound has been twenty or
twenty-one cents, while about eigh-
teen cents q pound has been OBJ
tanned for the oil exported. The
increase in the value Of beef fat in
this country, occasioued by the
manufacture of oleomargarine, has
been from thirty-fve to forty per
cenLum.
Oleomargarine never can take
the place of the best butter, aud |
farmers need have no fear that it
will drive the bsst from the market.
But it keeps sweet, is said to be
healsbful, and is better than the un-
savory stuff that SO often finds its
way to city tables. &. FL 2.
THE SOLDIERS BOOM,