Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-06-16
OLEOMARGARINg IN BOsrON,
An Expert From she Hah Before che
Senate COm0ttte0.

Professor Babcock, OF the Boston board OF
health and q chemist, was the FIRST gentleman
TO address the members OF the Senate commit
tee on agriculture and forestry and the large
audience assembled in the committee room on
the subject OF olecmarsarine this morning. IL
was his duty, he said, to see that the law OF
Massachusetts requiring that oleomsrgarine
should be sold under Its proper name
was enforced. In the great majority OF cases
the law was obeyed. In one year he
had made 1871 inspections, and had found
ninety per cent of the oieomargine sold prop
other cases. There were thousands of persons
In the city of Boston wine buy butterine. know
Ing perfectly well what it'was. II was marked
butterine, sold for butteriue and The price paid
was the price of hutterine. The same state
ment applied to oleomargarne. Many dealers
the pSeenu,ons Srs.crSsa e1
inform their customers what they were buying.
In many OF the factory towns the operatives
and but for this. substitute would be entirely
without butter or any thing answering It's pur-
pose. 1t WAS, OF course, true that many board
their tables as butter, and also that In some
cases II was sold as butter, but In like manner
did people seV sugar and sand as .'all sugar"
He bel eyed oleomargarine was health
iui, and should DO sold under its
and coaa Be He lSoSsst /, e
compel manufacturers TO color oleo red OF
blue, or leave il uncolored, tor the reason that
people would he preJudiced against IL by pre-
vious habits. A substitute for any food article
must look like the article ii took the place Of
Oieomargarine sold Al 10 cents pound and
was wholesome while butter sold much higher
and was sometimes OF very poor quality. He
did not believe IL true that poisonous substances
were used in the manufacture OF oieomargarine
LOT the purpose ot deodorizing any Oh as conn.,
ponent materials. The process would be prac-
ucaiiy impossible, he Thought
A CHICAGO WITNESS.
Mr.. George III. Webster, of the firm OF Ar
mour & Co., Of Chicago, said his firm manuiac'
tured large quantities OF oieo oil, oleomarga
rine, neutral oil and butterine. About two
thirds OF all the oeo oil manufactured by them
was shipped abroad TO be there mau "a featured,
and the other third was manufactured In this
country. he thought the discovery of oleo-
margarine had Increased the value VI
each head of cattle 80 by reason OF the in-
creased value of luts utilized in the manuIac-
ture of oleo oil. should y tax he imposed IL
would inure wholly 10 the benefit OF oleo manu-
iacturers la foreign countries with whom the
United States had TO compete. He did not
think 1t right that oleomargarine, which was q
pure and wholesome product, should be taxed
because 1T came into competition with
uIacture IL and the consumer TO eat IL
without restrictions as to tax. Ii should, OF
course, be sold under Its true name. BuLterine
differed from oieomargarine in that IL WAS man.
uiactured from neutral oil pI pared from refined
LARD. The manufacture OF butterine increased
the value OF each hog slaughter about 12ia
Sohe,t VI toeoi Va SoVosVoO Aoi tuc
slaughtered in Chicago during the past year.
Two graucs Of buLlerine are manufactured, the
best OF which contained rs per cent of
butter and sold for ID cents per pound whole
SALE The second grade Oh bulteriue sold for
about 1Vl2 cents and oIeomargarine sold Tor 3
to Sig cents per pound. During the last year
cost his firm sos, 600. There were
about thirty factories manufacturing sub
stitutes Tor butter. The manufacture gave
employment to about 1000 persons, while the
Manufacture of the OIL from wnicn The two
were made gave employment directly and in
directly 10 about thrice that number
Inc hearing viii be continued tO-morroW.