National Republican., 1884-05-09
IMPURE BUTTER.
How TO Avoid imposition In tho Pur'
chase OF Dairy Products.

BOsfOn Herald
How can you tell tho puro from the adul-
terated artico9"
"I can't tell It,"
This was tho testimony Of one Of the largest
butter dealers in Boston, His attention had
been called TO tho report Of tho state chemist
of New York, in which he stated that some
of the specimens of cheese he had examined
there contained as por cent. of lard, aud %
per cent. of butter fat and that Of thirty
specimens of butter bought for pure butter"
only six were genuine, all the rest being imi-.
tations, while some contained perhaps 10 per
cent of real butter.
81 have no doubt that is all true" remarked
q prominent dealer, "and 1 wish the matter
might be stirred so much that these articles
should be sold for what they are. 1t is per-
fectly right to sell oleomargarine If you call
it so, and don't call it butter"
"ls there good deal Of this fraudulent but
ter sold2"
81 have no doubt that eight-tenths of all
the tub butter that Is put upon the market is
imitation butter. Thoro is butterine, suine,
oleomargarine, etc.. which, sold as such, are
legitimate articles Of trade, but they arc often
called butter"
"Do you believe that the Vermont butter
makers introduce adulterationsp
mo. If they did wo should find it out, as
we test tho article that comes from our reg
| ulhE CuStOnorS. IL Lnoro IL Dub u llJUlO OIL III
| it we could not detect it, but IL doesn't pay
to slightly adulteratc butter. You remember
the stir that was made some time ago when it
was discovered that Vermont dealers were
buying olcOmargarno in Boston, taking it to
the Green mountains, mixing twith genuine
butter, and then reshipping it to the Hub.
| Well, | went to the depot in this city, marked
tho tubs of oleomargarino before thoy were
shipped to Vermont and saw tho same tubs
| when they arrived back again marked Best
Vermont butter"
do dealers fairly represent tho article
sold2'
"I'll tell you how ono of them did IT, Ho
| had oleomargarine for sale, and two tubs
stood by tho door as customer entered.
GLOW much do you ask for this tubp
"'Oh, that is oleomargarine get25 centsfor
that
"'How much for thatP
"'I get 30 cents for that
"Well I'll take it; won't have any cleo
margarine
Both tubs were oloomargarine, but he do
cei ed the customer, while at the same time
literally telling him the truth. There is
another dealer in Portsmouth, who sets out
at his door and about in his shop one kind of
oleomargarine, but puts on labels which show
every grade of butter from the finest quality
Of Vermont down to the lowest grade"
1t appears that an immense amount of but
terine, suine, and oleomargarine is being
manufactured, and is sold here. There arc
several establishments which thrive on this
business. From the admissions of the most
reliable provision merchants 1t appears that
an incaculable amount of imposition is being
practiced in the sale Of butter, or what pur-
ports to be that article.
"How, then, is q man to know whether he
Is getting butter or an imitation? How can
a man be sure to get butter when he calls for
it?"
"There Is only one way that knowo of. II
a man goes to some dealer in whom he ha:
confidence, whom he can trust, he will be sure
to get what he wants."
Are not tho dealers themselves deceived IL
their purchaser"
eve in turn get our supplies from men from
dairies which we know and we buy from
men in whom we have confidence. Weknov
they furnish the genuine article, and so W,
! can warrant it to our customers. There i
plenty of good butter to be had if the peopl
will only take the pains to got it,"