Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-10-26

A recent dispatch says that seven Hartford
dealers were TO- court for keeping for sale
oleomargarine butterine or suetine, without
posting up the sign required by law. 1t was
claimed that the policeman who notified these
men Of their negligence a week ago went in
10 their stores a day or two later and found
that they had not put up the signs. The
good nRtured Judge let them 20 upon pay
ment of SjgS each The Hartford Times,
commenting upon the matter, says some
dealers feeling that they have the right Of IT,
and that they deal in a good, clean article on
ly, take every possible method to make 1t
known that it is oeomargarine that they are
selling. These are more likely to be whole
sale dealers who supply 'the trade" Some
retailers and sellers by the single tub, are &C
cused Of resorting to less open and honest
methods. For example, they will have half
a dozen tubs or firkins exposed to view in
row, and when a customer comes in and asks
the price, they will say, pointing to one tub,
THAT is oleomargRrine-that is % or 25)
cents a pound ooh " the customer says
81 don't want any Of that dirty stuff ! want
good, genuine butter Then the dealer
blandly turns to the next tub and says, Here
is a superior butter, for 81 cents or
some such price and the purchaser takes
it, and is sold, - for it is all the same thing
Or, perhaps, the customer may be a restau-
rant or hotel keeper, who knows what he is
buying, and takes the cheapest. There are
grades and qualities OF oleomargarine. A
New Haven manufacturer makes gilt-edged
article and is said to have become in seven
years time a millionaire in this business, and
taken to building pleasure yachts and things
on the basis Of a substantial prosperity. He
makes 2OO0 tubs day, varying in size from
~ to 60 pounds and plainly stamps all Of his
goods "Oieomargarine' and as such il is
sold by his agent but there are dealers who
prefer to buy the cheap and dubious stuff
made in New York and Philadelphia, for they
can buy it for 10 cents pound-and that
gives the manufacturers go per cent. profit.
1t seems they buy a cheap manufactured oil
from Chicago or some other western place and
make a queer product, in which there is a
good deal of the mysterious western OIL and
a little cottonBeed oil and suet and melted
market scraps. and peanut oil and "bona oil
(that is, fish oil D and 'deodorized lard oil
the whole duly colored with Rnnotto. favored
with little butter or a suspicion Of butyric
acid, to give it the requisite smell and taste,
and sold in neatly stamped cakes or in tubs
and frkins for what it will fetch usually
about T. or - cents per pound The Hart
ford Times makes the charge that there are
farmers in the surrounding country who have
for year, brought into the city butter for
dealers and families who are now and for d
year or two have been, buying oleomargarine
in Hartford, moulding it over at home and
supplying it to their customers as the geuu-
Inc product of their own diaries If closely
questioned, the Times adds, they will hardly
stand up to the fasehood Of declaring that
they made it, but will resort to the meaner
deceit that they got it from neighbor and
would be glad to know If il suits