Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26
AMAZED BY BOGUS BUTTER
THE N. Y. SENATE COMMITTEE REC
 OAIMENDS A PROHIBITORY LAW.
The Live Cow Cannot Compete with the Dead lO&-PrOpOsinE to Get Dairymen to Enforce Anti-AdulIerntIOn Measures.

The New York State Senate com mittee which has been investigat ting 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 in the State and in an amount which equals half the production of the natural article. The imitation is so disguised that often 1t 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 30 cents to laboring men, and the better grades at 40 or 45 cents. The cost of manufacture ranges from 12 to IS cents, the average being IA cents. AAC bll1S oAdl0 AS SulCIJ carried on in New York and Brooklyn, several concerns manufacturing over 5000, GOO pounds each out of fat brought from the West, from France, and from Italy.
 The bulk of the bogus butter is Imam 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 $5, 900, 900 to $10,000,0 900 yearly. The committee estimates that 4O,00O, 900 pounds of the product are sold annually in the State, and the ille- gitimate business is breaking our export butter trade. The effect of the decep- tion in the trade is deleterious to busi- 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 ni- trio and sulphuric acids in dt odorizing adulterated butter is particularly con. demned. The committee recommends the total prohibition, after given time, of the manufacture and sale of all butter deliberations. The living COW, the con- mittee asserts, cannot compete with the dead hog.
 The committee also finds that 200, 900 out of the 500, ,000 quarts of milk fur nished to New York daily in 1882 were water or skim milk. The committee rec ommends the appointment of State inspector of milk, and also recommends that the officials to be chosen to enforce the anti-adulteration laws be selected from and represent dairy interests.
 Accompanying the report was a bill by the committee. It prohibits, under penalty of $200 fine or six months i'm. prisonment, the sale of adulterated milk, the keeping of COWS for the production of milk in an unhealthy condition, and the diluting of milk with water. It pro- vides that every manufacturer of butter shall brand his name and the weight oi the butter on the package.
 Cans for the sale of milk shall be stamped with the name of the county where the milk is produced, unless sold exclusively in the county. A penalty ot from $500 to $1, ,000 and Imprisonment for one year is imposed on the sale or manufacture of bugus butter ol cheese. The State Dairymen's Associa ton Is appointed commission to en force the provisions of the bill. anC con 000 ia a11,1roTriotad for tho ,,urnoea