Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-12
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
How Adulteration is Injuring the Es
ports of These Articles.

u
ports of These Articles.
New York Tines
The immense falling off in the ex-
port trade Of butter and cheese is at.
tracing great deal of interest through
out the country. That this decrease is
largely due to the fact Of authorizations
in the manufacture, and because oleo-
margarine and lard cheese have been
disposed of to an enormous extent by
shippers to Great Britain and the con-
tinent as genuine butter and milk
cheese, is unquestionably true Deal
ers in this city have assigned various
reasons for the decline in the export of
these articles. They say that the sea-
son in Europe this year has been a wet
one and an excellent one for pasturape.
and that therefore the demand for but
ter and cheese from this country was
not so great as it might have been had
the season there been somewhat SINH
lar to the one experienced here by
dairymen. The great drought, they
also say, was setback to the manu-.
facture of butter and cheese in the
United States. and the prices now are
too high. While these reasons and
many others of like nature are ad.
vanced by the dealers, yet, with scarce
ly any exceptions, they acknowledge
that the shipment of oleomargarine and
lard cheese has had much to do with
diminishing the export trade in real but.
ter and cheese; and, while this state OF
facts is deplored by the manufactures
OF both the genuine and adulterated
articles, none are willing to bear the
blame for it. The oleomargarine and
lard cheese-makers declare that what
they manufacture is pure and healthy
They insist that it is properly branded
and sold for what it is, and that it is
never offered by them under any other
than its real name. They frankly adj
init, however, that when these articles
leave their factories the brands are re-
moved by INSCRIPTIONS dealers, and
that oleomargarine then becomes but
ter in the foreign market and lard
cheese becomes milk cheese.
Protests against the frauds perpe
trated in the cheese and butter markets
have become as common as the air, as
harmless as the bleating calf. Now
and then some shipper, who has laid
his plans to defraud the foreign mar.
ket, finds himself stranded with large
amount Of leaking lard cheese and ole
margarine turned to tallow on hi,
hands, and then renounces the business
for time. In order that the general
reader may fully understand the extent
of the falling off in the export trade a
few figures may be given. During last
year the average export of cheese was
something over 100000 pounds a
week. The average this year is scarce
ly over 100000 pounds a week. The
exports Of butter last year averaged
about 100000 or 100000 pounds q
week, while this year the average does
not reach 100000 pounds a week. A
large percentage of the article exported
is, in fact, oleomarearine, but it is
cleared as butter. The export trade in
Oleomargarine, cleared under its law.
full name, is also less than that of last
year, but vast quantity of the stuff
cleared as oleomargarine is not in the
shape of imitation butter, but is in oil
OleOmargarine is used by butter man.
ufacturers in Germany and Holland
and other countries. One-quarter OF
the oil is used with three quarters OF
butter to form an article which is there
sold at good prices, and which is very
deceptive in appearance. For the
week ending Nov. "a, 1880, the exports
in butter were 324,967 pounds; in
cheese, 2,094.577; in oleomargarine,
AS. $50. For the week ending Nov.
"a, 1880, the exports in butter were
324,967 pounds; in cheese, 1904
577; in oleomargarine, AS, $50. For
the week ending Nov. % of 1881, the
exports in butter were 284, $50; in
cheese, 1,234,760 in oleomarga-
rine. 208,530. To Rotterdam,
270,554 pounds of oleomargarine,
mostly oleomargarine oiD was shipped
in the week ending Oct. %, 1880. To
the same place only $4,000 pounds
were sent for the week ending Nov. %,
1881.