The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-09-15


in the agitator making about IT'S t.
200 evolutions pei minute. Th'
time of churning is about 40 minutes
| In this way the oil and milk arr
beaten into an emulsion. 1t is thel
drawn off into q vat, partly filled
with ice, and frozen into what ap-
pears to be, from its color, beautiful
spring or june butter. After the
sailing a product. for packing is Sc
cured amounting to 6lo to 6lG
pounds, So there is no loss from
the making, but by the admixture ol
100 pounds milk, and say, 80 pounds
salt (cheap materially there is a gain
on the oil (the only expensive article
used) of 100 to l12 pounds.
Formerly "a small percentage, say
5 per cent. of butter was used to give
it flavor. But when the cows are
we'll fed, the milk alone does that
now. The coloring, of course, is ad-
ded, to make it resemble dairy but
ter. Made in this way, it very close
ly resembles genuine dairy butter.
1t smells and tastes like it. The
imitation is so much like the gen
uine in appearance and sensible quail.
tiles that it is impossible for any ex-
cept the most skiIlful experts to-dis-
tinguish the difference.
Ertent Of its man,yactme-Be
tween 1874 and 1878 its manufacture
made a little headway. But during the
past three years 1t has advanced
with alarming rapidity. One estab-
lishment in the city of New York has
nine churns; 61o pounds is the pro-
duct from a single churn. Product
of 9 churns, 5,4eo pounds in 40 min
utes-2oo,oO0 pounds per week
Pounds.
Fer year.................. 10 10000
Other city factories {es-
timated)...... ....... 100000
Other New York States
factories about ..........L 5000. 900
20 100000
Or about one-fifth the total dairy
product of the State.
Loss to dairy interest each year is
estimated from so to 5000,
100000.
Under the Mege Mouries patent
alone Is large factories prior to the
spring of 1881 had been established
in or covering the cities of New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Pittsburgh. Cincinnati, Saint
Louis, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland,
Albany, Louisville, Detroit, Omaha,
md San Francisco.
Possibilities for its manufacture in |
he city of New York alone:
Number Of beeves killed per
week............ ................ 100000
'er year. .................. $4,000
Allowing 100 pounds offal fat per
iced, from which 35 TO 40 pounds OF
'oleo" is extracted, which, by the
ddition of such inexpensive mater-
ais as milk and salt, increases the
Manufactured product about 25 per
ent., the fair average WELD of but
er is about As pounds per head.
Iultiply this by $4,000 and we
ave 23,4oo,ooo pounds. Allowing
hat one-ffth of the number are
in New York City, we
ave four-fifehs to add to the above
roduct to represent the possibilities
t the entire State production, max
,g an agg 'egate of l16, 900 lbs.
oleomargarine butter. The entire
airy bu t'r product Of the State for
s75 was 111,1s0,4l3 pounds.
The following extract from Apple
ms Annual Encyclopedia for 1879,
nd quoted in Commissioner Raum's
tier TO the committee, is also SUBJ
lifted:
Oleomargarine, which is now ex-l
manufactured from animal
t, as a substitute for butter, is
readed as vehicle for injecting the
imam system with trichinae and
her internal parasites. The fat is
1t subjected to higher temperature
an 1909 Fair. John Michels, a
ew York chemist, states shat the
fuse fat of one pork-packing estab-
hmcnt is, TO his knowledge, sent
the artificial butter factories; and
'ofessor Church found in Oleomar-l
rine horse fat, fat from bones, and v
aste fat, such as is ordinarily used
making candles"
The degree of heat (l2oe Fahr)
piled in its manufacture is not
fficient to kill trichlnae or otherI
imalcula and parasites. and IT. Is