News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
AMAZED BY BOGUS BUTTER
THE N. Y. SENATE COMMITTEE REC.
OMMENDS \ PROHIBIEORY LAW.
The Live Cow Cannot Compete with the
Dead EOg-PrGpOsing to GeI Dairymen
to Enforce AnIi-AdulteratiOn Measures.

The New York State Senate COM
mittee which has been investigating
adulterations of food, presented its re-
port The committee has discovered
| alarming wholesale adulterations of food,
which are dangerous to the consumer
! and which are depreciating property in
the rural districts. The adulteration of
butter by tallow oil, bone oil, and lard
oil was found almost in every town and
city i'll the State and in an amount which
equals half the production of the natural
article. The imitation is so disguised
that often it can only be detected by
chemical analysis. Out of thirty
samples of alleged butter purchased by
the committee in New York only ten were
genuine.
No labels to distinguish the pure from
the bogus butter are displayed, as re-
quired by the existing law. Bogus but
ter is largely purchased by saloons,
boarding houses and second class hotels.
The poorer qualities of bogus butter sell
for from 20 to 80 cents to laboring men,
and the better grades at 40 or As cents
The cost of manufacture ranges from II
to Is cents, the average being IA cents.
The manufacture in this State is chiefly
carried on in New York and BROOKLYN,
several concerns manufacturing over
5000, 600 pounds each out of fat brought
from the West, from France, and from
Italy.
The bulk of the bogus butter is Fman-
ufactured in the West and sold in New
York to the detriment of the States
dairy interests. Many dairy farmers
have been driven out of business in con-
sequence. The loss to the State is esti-
mated at from S., 900, 900 to $4,000, 600
yearly. The committee estimates that
10000, 900 pounds of the product are
sold annually in the State, and the ile-
gitimate business is breaking our export
butter trade. The effect of the decep-
ton in the trade is deleterious to bust
ness morals. Butterine can be sold at
Is cents less than natural butter.
The committee quotes extensively
from the evidence obtained to show the
evil moral, commercial and sanitary
effects of adulterations. The use of nj
tric and sulphuric acids in d olor zing
adulterated butter is particularly con-
The committee recommends !
the total prohibition, after a given time,
of the manufacture and sale OF all butter |
1hC lINLtlSo OoN, bllS COul-
mittee asserts, cannot compete with the
dead hog
The committee also finds that 200, 900 |
out of the 500, 900 quarts Of milk fur
nished to New York daily in 1882 were
water or skim milk. The committee rec
the appointment of State
Inspector of milk, and also recommends
hat the officials to be chosen to enforce
he antl-adulteration laws be selected
rom and represent dairy interests.
Accompanying the report was a bill
~ the committee. 1t prohibits, under
'enalty OF 5000 fine or SIX months i'm
the sale of adulterated milk.
he keeping of COWS for the production
milk III an unhealthy condition. and
ne diluting of milk with water 1t pro
ides that every manufacturer OF butter
hall brand his name and the weight of
be butter ON the package.
Cans for the sale of milk shall be
tamped with the name of the county
where the milk is produced, unless sold
in the county. A penalty of
rom $500 to 81, 900 and Imprisonment
or one year is imposed on the sale
,r manufacture of bugus butter or
,heese. The State Dairymen's Associa-
ion is appointed a commission to en-
orce the provisions of the bill. and |
80 900 is appropriated for the purpose. |