Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-03-21
Interesting ueadinr for Butter yIakers
and

umN AnmAuMeNhs
1t was -butter-mens day before the
Senate committee on public health yesterday
Several Of the slaughter house creameries in
and around New York were represented in
the committee rooms at the Morton house.
Some Of the sellers Of the queer who had
been subpunaed did not come to time and
one maker whom the committee had been
trying 10 find had not been officially discov-
cred
George Hildebrand. a commission dealer in
produce in this city, was the FIRST witness.
He testified that he sells about 225 tubs Of
counterfeit butter a day, Oh commission
When he receives the stuff it is branded only
with the shippers mark II is branded oleo-
margarine in the witnesses store. The but
terine as well as the other is branded cleo
margarine He brands the butterine oleo.
margarine because he thinks 1t best TO do 30.
Chairman Low-Isn't il because the butter
inc is made Of hog fat and the oleomargarine
Of beef?
The witness said that was not the reason
He declined to tell the prices at which he
was selling the bogus butter 10 the retailers.
He did not know what the retailers called
the stuff when they sold it to their custom
ers. He declined to tell the names of retailers
to whom he sells but he thought better Of
it after the chairman had told him that the
committee would insist upon an answer. He
gave the names Of several grocerymen, and
also favored the committee with the current
prices Of oleomargarine md butterine, which
he said were from u to IA cents and from 10
to "a cents to the retailers.
j. b. Quinlan, grocer at Gl7 Eighth ave-,
testified that he sells from five to seven tubs
Of the queer @ week OF retail When q child
or anybody else comes in and asks for SOC
butter he sells them bogus butter. His
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stuff as oleomargarine to persons who call
for that compound, He pays about 14tc a
pound for oleomargarine, and has sold it as
butter for 2Sc He sells the spurious article
because he can make more money on it than
on butter.
Charles A. Rudd, a retailer at 1921 Seventh
avenue, testified that he sells bogus butter
for genuine. His sales amount to about ten
tubs each Of oleomargarine and butterine 3
week. He said he had sold butterine for as
much as SOC pound.
j. Il. Boschen, dealer in butter, cheese
and eggs in Washington market, testified
that he deals also in counterfeit butter to the
extent of some u or 10 tubs a week. About
one-third Of this il sold for what it really is
to boarding house keepers. He sells it be
cause he can make more money than by sell
ing butter.
Charles F. Droste Of - Warren street q
member of the butter committee of the Mer-
camille exchange, testified that be had heard
on what he regarded as good authority, that
some of the creameries in the West were
using neutral stock 49, prepared lard 49, for
adulterating their butter He had heard Of
one creamery sending east adulterRted butter
with This package contains one-twentieth
lard stamped on the tub il small letters
The creamery men in the West are driven TO
this because they have to compete with DO
gus butter in the Now FORK market. They
say if they are protected in New York they
will send pure butter. Ii there is only little
lard in butter it cannot be detected except by
chemical analysis II it should be known in
Europe that American butter was adulterated
with lard, it would destroy our export trade.
In reply to a question asked by one of the
bogus butter men, Mr.. Droste said that if he
were compelled to choose between very cheap
rancid butter and the counterfeit article for
cooking, be would take the rancid butter.
II. Lauferty testified that he makes about
$500, 600 pounds Of oleomarearine year at
his creamery in West Houston street In it
he uses from 80 to 10 gallons Of benne oil q
day. This Gil be said, is produced from the
Oenno plant, and is highly priced by the ma
tlves OF Africa, who use 1t internally and eX-
ternRlly. He had never had any of it anal
yzed to see whether it was fit to be taken
taking spoonful if the committee said SO
Mr.. Lauferty explained his method of pro
ducing neutral lard oil such as is usec il
making butterine He said that in the ice
water into which the oil was drawn to be
cooled he put nitric acid-about half al
ounce to 200 gallons OF water This the
witness said was the part OF the process
which MIR. Robinson, a swine-creamery man
from Chicago, had refused to explain TO the
committee on the preceding day The wit
ness used to ship his product to Europe. but
of late years he had found it impossible to
compete with tine ingenious Dutchmen OF
Holland. He guessed that there were twelve
factories in this city and Brooklyn, which
make altogether about Is 900, 600 pounds OF
oleomargarine year. he knew of one but
terine maker here, but the butterine comes
chiefly from Chicago and Cleveland. The
witness gave his recipe for making butter
1000 pounds Of oleomargarine, 800 pounds Of
neutralized lard, ten gallons of benne oil
drawn into a churn with 500 or GOO pounds
of milk and so ounces of coioring matter
churned and worked Men York Sun