News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
RENOVATED BUTTER,
A New Enterprise of Importance to Eaters
and Sellers of Butter.
From the n. Y. Sun.1

lFrom the n. Y. SUM-
"There Is no longer need of New York
butter dealers working off their rancid
butter on unsuspecting boarding house
keepers at ruinously low price," said
a well-known dairyman from Goshen
yesterday. "All they've got to do is to
pack it up and ship it to New Hamp-
ton, Orange county, among the fragrant
meadows and weet-smiling creameries
of our dairy farms, and it will be re-
turned to them in short time as prime,
gilt-edged article, that they can deal out
to their best customers as the genuine
Orange county goods.
I'm telling you facts. New Hampton
is six miles west of Goshen and three
miles from Middletown. 1t is one of the
most important milk stations on the
Erie road. There used to be quite an
extensive creamery in operation there,
but it was abandoned a few years ago,
and the building remained vacant until
a month or so ago. Then a couple of
dapper strangers appeared in Hampton.
They were Is entuckians. They bought
the old creamery building, and welcome
news was reported that the business was
to be revived
The farmers rejoiced that they were
to have near and convenient market
for their milk. The new proprietors
didn't say much about the creamery
business, but went to rigging the build,
ing up. The contrivances they put into
the concern were strange to the old
fashioned milk farmers, who thought
they knew what was what in the run
ming of creamery France & Co.-that
was the name of the new owners-let
people talk right along, and had mas
terly knacls Of saying nothing them
selves. After everything was in shape
France & Co. contracted with one farmer
for his milk, and showed no disposition
to take any other diaries. AS one dairy,
and small one at that, isn't enough to
give flavor to a decent-siZed creamery,
the expectant farmers began to think
that things looked queer for the New
Hampton creamery business.
''In a short time, however, numerous
tubs and tirkins, heavy, greasy and NAL
odorous, began to arrive in New Hamp-
ton addressed to France & Co. These
were taken to the now suspected cream
cry, and in time clean and new packages
were brought from France & Co. and
shipped away to different addresses in
New York and elsewhere. By and by it
dawned upon the innocent and conscien-
tious farmers that France & Co. were
evidently making oleomargarine. Then
the farmers grew indignant. They sent
word to the State Dairy Department
that the honesty of Orange county dairy
products was being made questionable
by France & Co. Inspectors White and
Sears were sent to New Hampton last
Saturday to look after France & Co.
They unearthed the secret OF the firm,
and found that France and Co. were do
ing thriving business in taking butter
of all degrees of randicity and impurity
and subjecting it to patented process,
invented and owned by the firm, by
which it was made over into commod-
ity that was placed on the market as new.
sweet butter.
"The rancid stock is purchased in
New York city and in Western markets,
and costs France & Co. an average of 10
cents pound. At the renovating works
it is placed in large watts and surrounded
by boiling water. When the butter is
heated to the right degree all the i'm
puTlIleS rlSe-tO IN surface OF the melted
They are skimr ed off, and
the remaining liquid butter is run from
the watts to big circular churn. There
milk and cream is added, AMI the in
gradients are churned until the whole
are thoroughly mixed and the new milk
and cream have been formed into butter.
The fresh butter is very small proper
tion of the whole, but it seems to be
sufficient to leaven the lump, so that
when it is treated with butter coloring
and salt, it is turned out as an apparent
ly prime product of Orange county.
The dairy inspectors did not seem to
regard this manufacturing of new style
butter as Objectionable, and so the mat
Iv1 s.auas. IAaL4~v O.. simply
they say, but their ex-
periments have been so eminently salts
factory that in few weeks they will be
in shape to handle any quantity of
spoiled butter and make it into product
that any lunkhead of groceryman can
sell at gilt-edge prices.
81 thought I'd give New York dealers
4 tip, so that they won't go and waste
their rancid stock on boarding house
people, but send it up to the dairy re-
gions and have it returned to them in
shape to place on the tables of bloated