The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-09-15
Maekln Corvallis .Gazette.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. Is, 1882.
The Dairy vs.. oleomargarine.

L
! The following bill has been intro
duced in Congress which we trus
will be considered favorably ant
passed at the earliest possible mo-
ment. The bill provides for tn,
stamping the name on all eleomar-
| garine packages.
THE DAIRY.
The American dairy is hardly q
third of a century old. Starting in
the eastern counties of New York,
it raised people and land from power.
ty to thrift, until the industry now
embraces almost the entire area OF
New York, much of New England,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, Southern
Michigan and Wisconsin, Northern
Indiana and Illinois, Northern Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Northern Kansas, Colorado, and
California, with parts of Dakota,
Wyoming and Washington Terri
tories.
1t is the great national industry.
The money value of its annual
product is greater than the wheat
crop, more than corn, more than
cotton and wool combined, reaching
to between four and six hundred
millions of dollars.
From five to eight millions of our
people are interested in the industry.
The capital invested in dairy lands,
cows, utensils, ETC., is estimated to
reach from $4,000. 200, 900 to e,ooo,-
CoO,ooo.
Once 100 pounds of butter to a
cow was fair average. Now from
25o to 800.
Once the grass upon the land,
worn out by overcropping with
grain, would hardly pay for cutting.
Now tons to the acre is not an un-
common yield.
Butter and cheese are the only
commodity for exchange which
brings money to the dairying farmer.
Once, with butter at a shilling
pound, and cheese at or 6 cents,
heavy mortgages for the purchase
money of the land, the farmers were
impoverished and their families with
out education or home comforts.
The extraordinary demand created
by the war brought remunerative
prices. Debts were paid, the land
lnburd~Aed and the dairy farmers
became the first yeomanry the world
ever saw.
oLEoMARGAR1NE.
In 1869 a Frenchman by the name |
If Mege Mouries, took ont a patent
n England for making butter from
'nimal fats.
In 1873, one Paaf (another chem
st) patented the process in this couu-
ry. and organized large company
n the city Of New York, known as
)leomargarine Manufacturing Com
any.
Later on, in the same year, the
lege Mouries patent was issued in
his country, by Mouries himself,
nd reissued in the following year.
The points covered by the patent
re
Firet. The rendering of tie oil |
'om the fats at the low temperature
f 1909 thereby avoiding the animal
tallowy odor in the product which
'ould obtain with a higher degree
f heat.
Second. Converting the oils, by
burning them With milk, into but
,r.
The components aud process of
le manufacture are as follows: Il
The caul, omentum, and all the
ltestinal or offal fats of beeves are
archased of butchers, the average ,
mount being about 100 pounds to
le animal. They are then trimmed
ON pieces of intestines and other ,
eshy substances that adhere, which ,
e carted away.
After washing in cold or tepid
ater land, of.course, without soap) ,
r the removal of any blood, dirt or r
cal matter, the fats are put through j
hat is called 'shasher,' by which +
ey are finely divided and reduced 7
TO a pultaceous or Jelly-like mass, %
en- passed into kettle, where they :
e submitted to a heat 1909 or less :,
hen, after various manipulations. it
placed, in small quantities, be-
'een cloths, in large press, where :
e oil is pressed out. From 100 .
unds of the crude fats is obtained .,
'out the following products:
Pounds. t
eo o.'''''.................. 40 ii