The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
BOGUS BUTTER.
Rsport of a New York State Senate
Committee.
AlsrninJ Wholesale deliberations Of
Food Discovered.

The New York State sc iate committee
which has been investigating Authorizations
of food, saws in its report that it has dis
covered alarming wholesale authorizations.
which are dangerous to the consume II and
which are depreciating property in
the rural districts The a1ultera-
ton of butter by tallow oil, bone oil, and
lard oil was found in almost every town
and city in the State and in al amount
which equals half the production of the nat
ural article. The imitation is so disguised
hat often it can only be detected by chem
zeal ANALYST. Out of thirty samples Of al
legged 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 required by
the existing law. Bogus butter Is largely
purchased by saloons, boarding houses, and
second clas' hotels. The poorer qualities of
oogus butter sell for from twenty cents to
thirty cents to laboring men, and the better
grades at forty or forty five cents. The cost
Of manufacture ranges from twelve to
eighteen cents, the average being four
teen cents The manufacture in
New York State is chiefly carried on in New
York anI Brooklyn. several concerns manu-
featuring over 100000 pounds Zach out OF
fat brought from the Wet, from France, and
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manufactured in the West and sold in New
York to tn, detriment of the States dairy
interests. Many dairy farmers have been
driven out of business in consequences.
Tho loss to the State is estima cd at
from 100000 to $4,000, 900 yearly. the
committee estimates that 40, 000.0JO poun Is
of the product are sold annually in the State,
and the illeg innate business is breaking our
EXPORT butter trade. The effect OF the de
ception IN the u ale is deleterious to business
mlras. Butterine can be sold at eighteen
cents less than natural butter.
The committee quotes extensively from the
evidence obtained to show the evil moral,
commercial and sanitary effects of alultera-
tons. the use of nitric AMI sulphurlc
acids in deodori2iug adulterated butter is
particularly condemned. The committee
recommends the total prohibition, after a
sale of all butter a!ulterati )nS. The
living COW, the committee asserts,
cannot compete with the dead hog. The
committee a so finds that 100000 out OF the
50O,C0O quarts of milk furnished to New York
daily in 1>S? were water or skim milk. The
committee recommends the appointment OF a
State inspector of milk, and also recommends
that the Ofiic ais to be chosen TO enforce anti
a ALTERATION laws be selected from AMI rep
resent dairy Interests.
bccompany ing the report was b II By the
committee 1t prohibits under penalty of
500 tine, or six months impriso ment, the
sale of adul Grated milk, the keeI ing of cows
for the production of milk in an unhealthy
condition, and the diluting of milk with water.
1t provides that every manufacturer of butter
shall brand his name and the weight of the
butter on the PACKAGE. Cans for the sale of
m TX shall b. sta NJ ed with the zane o. the
county where the milk is produced unless
sold exclusively in the county. a penalty
of from 500 to 81 ,0OJ and imprisonment for
one year is imposed Tn the sale or manufac-
ture of bogus butter or cheese. The state
Dairymen's association is appointed com
mission to enforce the provisions OF the bill
and $50 900 is a. propriated for the purpose.