Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-04-17
OLEOMARGARINE.
PEOPLE OF THE EMPIRE STATE NOW
EATING BUTTER.
Butterine Manufactured and Shipped to
Europe-what the Transatlantic Food
Expert Argues Effect of the
New York Law.
New York World.l

For eight months the people of New
York have been eating butter. Before
that time, or, to be more definite, previous
to the LIST of last June, the ajority of the
residents of this city and state spread
oleomargarine on their bread. Then the
stringent law forbidding the manufacture
or sale of buttcriEe or any form of Cleo
margarine was passed, and since then very
little bogus butter has been sold in this
state. The penalty-tine and imprison
ment-is so great and the watchfuness Of
oleomargarine antagonists so keen that
throughout the entire state there is only
one establishment where the made" but
ter is sold at wholesale, and this establish
lishment is exceedingly careful in its Sc
lection of customers and will only sell to
old dealers who are well known to them.
The farmers keep special agent here all
the time to search out and punish offend
srs against the law.
Before the law went into effect dealers
in butter declared loudly that the result of
driving oleomagarine from the home
market would be to so increase the price
of butter as to make it practically beyond
the reach of the poor mans purse. But
the effect has, singularly enough, been
Just the reverse. Good butter was never
SO cheap us it has been since the exit of
oleomargarine and as it it to- day. Just as
much of the bogus stuff Is manufactured
throughout the country as ever before, but
none of it finds its way into New York.
1t goes to Philadelphia, New Jersey, and
Connecticut and all the little towns in the
states surrounding this are checked up with
the artificial product From Massachu
sets to Colorado there is hardly city or
village where the quantity of oleomarga-
Ir,y COLI mt nNiI m n ri
sale of butter And so New FORK gains
at the expense of her sister states. Illinois
dairymcn manufacture great quantities of
first class butter and ship it to this city
where it is sold for from q to 30 cents,
while they ard their families buy and eat
a first class quality of oleomargarine for
Is cents pound The prohibitory law
has sent more butter to this market than
ever came before, and the result is that
the poor resident of the metropolis is lux
uriating on the best butter at 80 cents a
pound, while his brother in surrounding
cities is forced 10 buy oleomargarine.
Nearly all the butter factories have
moved from New York to Philadelphia,
though few yet remain, They do not,
however, manufacture oleomargarine, but
turn out product which they call oil OF
beef, and which is exported in large guam
| Jules. t1OllauQ makes lne Duik Vi Vie
product, and converts it into butter,
though the stuff is sold all over England
and in every city on the continent. and
the American tourist on his summer va
cation eats native oleomargarine at his
London hotel, and spreads it on his bread
in the French capital. The transatlantic
food expert argues that it is all one
whether the fat gobules of cream are con
verted into butter or whether the ia
globules of the cows are so converted
Some idea of the extent of the traffic in
oleomargarine can he formed when it is
remembered that one house in this city
not manufacturer, sold over 50OOt
pounds OF the product per day. or enough
to feed one-fourth the population OF thu
city. And this from one establishment
alone
suits have been brought by the state TO
infringing the law in the sale of oleomar
garine A decision is expected within
week or two, and upon this the constitu
tionality of the law hangs. Meanwhil
New York will continue to eat butter.