The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-12
BOGUS BUTTER.
Samples of Food Recently Analysed by
the Chemists of the st. Louis Dairy
COmpany.

VI EOOu IScCchbly W
the Chemists of the st. Louis Dairy
Company.
From the st. Louis Republican.
Recently a combination of butter
dealers employed Drs. Stille and Dett-
nIer, the chemists of the st. Louis
Dairy Co., to analize samples of adul-
terated butter, or imitation butter,
sold for the genuine article. The re-
suits of the analysis VI ere printed in
the Republican. The parties who sold
the butter were prosecuted for viola
tion of the state law, and one of them
was fined $500. 1t is claimed that this
was the most important case pertain
ing to the dairy industries of the
state that has ever been de-
cided. Hundreds of tons of
imitation butter were sold in the mar
kets of the state last winter. and it is
predicted that hundreds of tons will
be sold next winter, or whenever real
butter reaches price high enough to
justify the purchase of neutral oils
and working them into butter. unless
the law is enforced. The important
feature of the case referred to is that
it shows that the presence in quanti-
ties of foreign fat, exceeding ten per
cent. of adulteratiO1, can be determ-
ined, and that this result was obtained
by the legal standard in Germany
viz, that pure butter contains an ave.
rage of 871a per cent. Of insoluble fat
ty acid.
The following substances were sent
to the st. Louis Dairy company for
analysis: Two samples of bread,
one sample of green powder for detect
ing arsenic, one sample of coal, and
from the city hospital samples of
sugar, gelatine, cream-tartar, baking
powder and soda. Following are the
analytical results: The two samples
of bread were sent in order to deter
mine the change of flour after the !
baking process in two different ovens
The analysis resulted in one sample: .
Water, 1912 per cent ; sugar, 1.24 per |
cent, and dextrin, 2.55 per cent. In
the other sample: Water 20 per cent. |
and aeXtrin 282 per cent.
The green powder was found very
arsenious; it was mixture of flour
and schweinfurter green (acetate and
arsenite of copper.
The sample of coal newly found in
the state of Indiana contained:
Water, 283 per cent; volatile matter,
3S.O2 per cent; fixed carbon, 44.62 per
cent; ash, 14.53 per cent-10O.
The analytical results of the sub
stances sent from the city hospital
are the following: The sample of
white sugar in form of powder was
found pure, and contained ouly a small
quantity of invertsugar (glucose)
The sample of gelatine was found
also pure, and contained: Water, 1902
per cent; nitrogen, A per cent; Or
ganic substance, 72.09 per cent; ash,
l .45 per cent-1OO.
The sample of "Cream Tartar Bak-
ing Powder" was found a mixture of
cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda
and starch. The analysis of it re-
suited: Cream of tartar, 1851 per
cent; bicarbonate of soda, 1916 per
cent; starch, 36.87 per cent; water,
3.71 per cent, and small quantity of
sulphate of lime, but no ammonia.
All the samples analyzed did not
contain any substances injurious to
health. The sample of soda contained
66.45 per cent. of carbonate of soda,
and small quantities of sulphate of
soda. Q.17 per cent? and chloride of
sodium, but no substances insoluuable
IN water.