Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05
OleO Margarine.

OleO Margarine.
pund up the old year in visiting a
Df oleo margarine factories on
eial street, Boston, and our inves-
were not very reassuring.
st factory we visited had out its
Dleo Margarine" and, quite sug-
also the announcement, Orange
Creamery Butter Color" and
lst where we believe it belongs,
bid have no place in the dairy, in
ing of legitimate, straight, honest
b first factory we were not allowed
anything excepting the sale rooms,
we're piled high with clean, nice
tubs, with the name put on in
on the side and top of the tub, and
Ter was mailing down the covers
hndsomely cut tins, and everything
he packages was as neat and attract.
well could he.
weather was very cold and the but
called. was hard and brittle, and
Jed on handling more readily than
e butter. While standing there
lrd one party say to the other, who
but of the counting room, "Will it
hip that nowp Won't it crumble?"
eolor and general appearance the
sembles very good article of col
hitter, but it is harder, more tallowy
sistence, is pretty heavily saltpd, and
hen new, the freshness and flavor of
butter.
second factory we visited we found
|pprietors less fearful Of being in
"a, and we went over the factory
the room where the tallow is cut.
|bugh tallow, which includes the kid
allow, caul and gut fat" the
ers are cautioned to secure perfect
IN and nice"
ZEN 1t comes in 1t is put into large
plding several hundred gallons, and
ID in hot and cold water, removed
nt fine, put in strong cloths and sub
to a powerful pressure to extract
d for the cleo. The residue is left in
|bape of thin cakes of stenrine, -
hnd brittle. This substance is used
IKE candles also to reinforce lard.
you buy lard in summer which is
firm and melts slowly, you may
tle yourself with the idea that you are
portion of the refuse of a bull.
factory.
b oil which is extracted by the pres
Is mixed with milk and straight
h, churned together, and drawn of
kranulated state into tub of cold
I, from which it is skinned into
shallow boxes. and put into a re-
Fator, where it remains until cool
itiis sailed, run through " worker,
bicely packed, as before said.
z place was moderately clean, though
Mining was greasy and smelled like a
he or soap factory-that distinctive
IVY smell which is very disagreeable
II The capacity of this factory is
two tons per day. The other one
their capacity was three hundred
kand pounds per week.
b informant said the makers of frs :
butter had no reason to fear any
petition from oleo, but ordinary and
butter would be hard pushed by it.
|aid the oleo should be sold on its
BE-, but also said that grocers and
ers would buy it and turn it ont on
tables, Or scrape off the marks and
Il for butter. Wishing to get other
|hony on this point we visited several
II dealers and grocers whom we knew
Rsked them about it.
|e first was well known butter dealer
sneuil Hall market, and while stand
here another market man,in passing
h "If you have any customers fol
/ send them up"
reply to my inquiries, he said he haC
h sold a pound of the stuff, but hi.
hbors bought it, turned it out on then
hers, and when customers called fol
br they were showed this, and sold i
hitter.
be second, a prominent grocer anc
er in choice butter. said he had nevel
a pound, but did not know but h,
|ld be forced to, as his neighbors KEEP
ID retailed it as butter.
bother firm in Cambridge told th
b story; said his neighbors sold it
put the price about five cents pc
nd less than he could sell his butter 70
pay the producer fair price for it.
leo is sold at eighteen cents per POM,
be quantity, or twenty cents by tn
he tub.
Re are fully convinced that, first. W
b want any in ours; second, that
II many grocers and butter dealers bu
lovingly, and sell it to their custom
not as oleo, bat rs genuine butter
third, that immense amounts of
consumed by people who buy it fo
|er and never know the difference.
be throwing of such an amount {
Ter on the market, (whether it be ger
or bogus, makes 10 difference, for
BID and consumed,) must material
b all goods, for a scant supply raist
grades, and surplus brings dow
les of all grades.
Re have no objection to people eatin
! if they want it, or the tallow clear,
n prefer it; but that it should be sol
Ter its true name we believe shoul
.omehow made certain, so people coul
b their chance of taking their tallo
bread, or in candles or soap, as the
b prefer.