Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-30
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WHAT BOGUS BUTTER Is MADE OF.
1t would be well for people before engaging In
the sale or consumption Of bogus butter as IL is
now made, to know Of what IL Ia composed.
There are sixty different articles named by
seventeen patentees in their several patents.
Among them are sugar OF lead bisulphate of
lime, borax, salicylic acid, benzoic acid orris
root, cotton seed oil. bicarbonate OF soda glyce-
rine. capsylic acid, alum, capsic acid. sulphite
OF soda, COWS udders, sulphuric acid, pepsin.
talow, lard, salt corn starch, butyric ether,
canstic potash. castor oil, chalk, slippery elm
bark, caul, oil OF sesame, oil OF sunfiower seeds
olive oil, turnip seed oil, broma chloralum,
chlorate Of potash. oil OF sweet almonds, oil OF
peanuts, peroxide OF maganese, stomach of
oil, nitric acid, dry blood albumen, sugar, buty-
ric acid, bicarbonate of potash and caustic soda
some things that are used. Il is notorions that
what 10 called butterine is now generally
made mad in soap s factories ,Sa, IL is only 9
had sent to him from a large - soap osp
factory At the west, sample OF soap and a
sample of butterine. The two go hand In hand
together. Why il butterine made in soap
factories? The reason is evident. 1t is because
ii can be made cheaper there. II "the ham-fat
man" brings in more grease than is wanted for
soap the surplus can be made into butterine
III he brings in more than Is wanted for butter
inc, the surplus can be turned into soap. In
The process of bieac6ine and deodorizing is said
to be about the same in each. the same poison
Gus alkalis being used in each. II wrong In this
1 stand ready 10 be corrected. Ii Is a mistaken
idea that some have that butterine IL
never made OF anything but the purest leaf
lard and best creamery butter. IL may be that
soap manufacturers buy pure leaf lard to use in
their business. ESQ, have never heard of IL
Butterine can be made of soap grease, and I be-
the most disgustina Kind. The bleaching and
deodorizing process II is put through makes It
impervious to taste or smell. The price IL is
sold at IL being sold just as low when pure but
Ter is 40 cents Mound when IL Is DO.
proves that but little, n any butter enters into
It's composition. II having no smell or taste of
It's own, all that Is needed IL that the little
smell and flavor IL has shall be that Of butter,
which Is obtained by churning IL IN bu,termiik
the eye and taste, christened by
SOME FANCY NAME,
and put upon the market as butter. When the
butterine men were buying up all the Elgin
butter they could get at forty cents per pound,
drummer from neighboring city tried TO in
duce me to buy what he called his fancy brand
to mark 1t Snow Flake Creamery" "Morning
Star Creamery" Rising sun Creamery" or by
any other high sounding name l might select.
telling me he was selling il all over Washing
ton 10 dealers, who in turn sold IL for butter, he
marking it "Fresh Creamery Butter" or by
but the worst remains to be told Of this dis
reputable business. Formerly dead animals
were collected and buried at a heavy expense.
Now they command a premium, even to the
rabid dogs. What becomes OF theme Let the
boiling establishments and the butterine fac
tories answer. Horses dying with CHAMBERS or
gathered up and carted to the boiling establish
ment, where the fat is extracted put up in bar
being put in shipping order, is said to look as
clean and nice as any other. What becomes OF
1t: Where does 1t go, and for what purpose is
1t used? Is 1t marked to distinguish ii from any
other fat? am told not by one who has been
in the business. What assurance have we that
1t does not find its way TO the butterine facto-
There seems to be no certainty of getting
pure butter but to require the maker to have a
registered trade mark and to brand the same
with his full name, residence. and warrant that
the article is pure butter on every package.
This have had done. but am sorry to say IL
doesn't seem to be appreciated. Three-fourths
of the community don't seem to care what they
sell or eat, so long as IL looks well, does not
smell bad, and is cheap. Between the selfish
the consumer, the man who declines TO deal In
anything but pure butter stands a pretty good
chance of being crushed between the upper and
neither mills stone.
HOW BOGUS BUTTER NAY BE DETECTED.
People who are not good judges of butter, and
who have not q fine sensitive taste find IL
difficult to distinguish pure butter from bogus
To such would say: There is O sure and uner.
ring test by which at a trihing cost you can know
whether the butter you have bought is pure OF
not Take a slender glass tube or vial Fill II
with the butter you wish to test Then suspend
the vial in hot water until the butter meits. II
pure the cheesy part will slowly settle to the
bottom, while the Oil will float upon the top, as
Stunning bright golden color, beautiful as the
western sky during q clear sunset II il be
bogus 1t will assume q cloudy or opaque color
and remain SO, while the alkalies used In its
manufacture will settle, forming white sedi
ment at the bottom, which is said to be deadly
poison.
II this test is not satisfactory GO to Prof
Taylor, the eminent microscopic Of the Agri
cultural department., to whom the citizens OF
Washington, as well as the whole country, owe
debt of gratitude for his scientific exposures
of bogus butter. He, with his unerring micro
scope, will instantly tell whether the article
submitted to him is bogus or not.
l. H CRANE