News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-19
NO MORE OLEOMARGARTNE.
New Workers Now Eating Good Butter
while Outsiders have Butterine.
From the n. Y. World.

For eight months the people of New
York have been eating butter. Before
that time or, to be more definite, pre-
vious to the LIST of last June, the majority
of the residents of New York city and
State spread oleomargarine on their
bread. Then the stringent law forbid
ding the manufacture or sale of butterine
or any form of oleomargarine was
passed, and since then very little bogus
butter has been sold in New York State
The penalty fine and imprisonment
is SO great and the watchfulness of ofeo-
margarine antagonists so keen that
throughout the entire State there is
only one establishment where the
"made" butter is sold at Wholesale, and
this establishment is exceedingly care
full in its selection of customers, and
will only sell to old dealers who are we'll
known to them. The farmers keep Mr..
York city all the time to search out and
punish offenders against the law.
Before the law went into effect dealers
in butter declared loudly that the result
of driving oleomargarine from the home
market would be to so increase the price
of butter as to make it practically be-
You'd the reach of the poor mans purse.
But the effect has, singularly enough,
been just the reverse. Good butter was
never so cheap as it has been since the
exit of oleomargarine and as it is to-day.
just as much of the bogus stuff is manu-
featured 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
New York are choked up with the arti-
fetal product. From Massachusetts to
Colorado there is hardly city or village
where the quantity of oleomargarine
sold does not approximate closely the
sales of butter. And so New York gains
at the expense of her sister States. IL
linois dairymen manufacture great guam
titles of tirst-c class butter and ship it to
New York, where it is sold for from 27
to 35 cents, while they and their families
buy and eat a first-class quality of oleo-
margarine for Is cents a pound. The
prohibitory law has sent more butter to
the New York market than ever came
before, and the result is that the poor
resident of the metropolis is luxuriating
on the best butter at 35 cents pound,
while his brother in surrounding cities
Is forced TO buy oleomargarine. 1t is
fun for New Workers. but not so funny
for outsiders.
Nearly all the butter factories have
moved from New York to Philadelphia,
though few yet remain. They do not,
however, manufacture oieomargarine,
but tnrn out product which they call
oil of beef, and which is exported in
large quantities. Holland takes the
bulk of the product, and converts it into
butter, though the stuff is sold all over
England, and in every city on the Con-
tinent, and the American tourist on his
summer vacation eats native oleomarga-
rine 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 globules of
cream are converted into butter, or
whether the fat globules of the cows
suet are so converted. So there has
been little opposition abroad to the
bogus stuff.
Some idea of the extent of the traffic
in oleomargarine can be formed when it
is remembered that one house in New
York city, not manufacturer, sold over
so, GOO pounds of the product per day,
or enough to feed one-fourth the popu-
lation of the city. And this from one
establishment alone.