The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-06
BETTER THAN BUTTER.
What Farmer Aiken Knows About Oleo-
margarine.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. April II, 1880.
To the Editor of the News and Courier ::
Can you and your readers endure the in
Fiction Of few more ideas upon the sub
ject Of Oleomargarine? Don't protest; |;
for be the dose p2latable sor nanseating,
it is an established fact that in saA the
science of dietetics there is no more en-
ergetic commercial product than Oleomar-
garine.
During the past winter, butter dealers
in the District of Columbia, Washington
Z City and elsewhere have been arrested.
for selling real butter upon the allegation
that it was oleomargerine. This induced
the introduction Of bill into, Congress
: to appoint commission Of five scientific
men to examine and test, wherever found
and by every possible scientific appliance,
all substances known to be, or supposed
TO be used in the production of any posi-.
BILE compound that has been or may be
thereafter imposed upon the public con-
sumers as a substitute for natural butter,
and,so faras possible recommend to Con-
gress what g!slation is necessary to pro-
feet the honest idealer.and the innocent
consumer And for this purpose four
Thousand dollars Is asked to be appropri-
: ated. a snug little sporting fund for a
3 scientific tasting committee to spend in
their jaunts about the country looking
!: for soleonargarine. And / venture to
.ehSgest, that if they would only take their
S'tneN first through the South and taste
s vast deal of the stuff bartered. for by our
country merchants, they would without
hesitation advise our people to buy oleo-
margarine 4eyery time"
Well, this bill was referred to the COM
Observation-Disclosures, and by it to q sub
eonMitt teess of which ]. am member.
Our fifst step was to GO to headquarters
and investigate the manufacture of the
article; 80 we went to New York, and
there We found q concern in which more
than half million dollars had been inves-
ted, tuning ont more than. fifty thousand
pounds ofoleomafgarine dGsh manufac-
tured after tho Identical process as that
previonsly reported from Baltimore, but
ofcourse hpon . tenfold large scale.
There are something more than tWo
thousand bseyes killed daily atthe slaugh-
ter houses in New York city, and they
average nearly one hundred pounds OF
fat each, beside the kidney fat which can.
not be- used in this mandatory, because,
aslyet SitEis impossible to divest it of its'
taIiaMn taste. But all the remaining fat
is daily sold, and delivered twice q day
% thisiaC Commercial Manufacturing Com
pany,n the style of the company making
oleomargarine,) who pay three cents per
pound more for the fat than the same
article brought in market anterior to the
establishments of this manufactory.s At
hAt time it brought three and . half
cents pei. pound, now it brings ak and q
half About thirty-fYe per cent. of this
fat is oledmargarine, forty.fve per cent.
tailow, TEN per. cent. stearine, and the
balance waste. OF course q chemical
analysis, would show q great many other
remaining ingredients, such as palnatsn,
arach;n, ca2tysn, &C., &c, that nobody
understands but chemist. I simply
give the proportion of foleomargariue, tai
low, stearine and waste, which together
make up that compound known as beef