The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25

know that the inspector of milk and
milk products and butter in that city
has sworn before the United States
senate committee that he was in the
pay of the oleomargarine manufacturers
and dealers2 That he had sent out three
to four hundred notices to dealers in
the city of Boston and did not know
whether they were complying with the
law or not? Let me give you state
ment taken from the specification of
patent No. 1924, October Z, 1884,
which form seventy-fve per cent
of the manufactured product " / first
fuse together in an iron pot or pan
the following ingredients in about
the proportion named: ten pounds of
caustic soda, or its equivalent in caustic
potash, and seven pounds of chlorate
of potash. After fusion add in small
quantities, at various times, eight
pounds of the fine powder of black
oxide of manganese. After the above
are thoroughly incorporated, l add
twenty-five pounds of the bichromate of
potash, and, in increasing the heat, stir
well until the fusion and firmuess of the
mass are complete. To subject the fats
or fatty oils to treatment, / use the fol-
4
of the above described mixture (Which is
now chemical salts) dissolved in one-half
gallon of fat or oil. Then add thereto six
fluid ounces of diluted sulphuric acid
and continue the agitation, and boil
with live steam until the mixture be-
comes thorough and complete. Then
allow the mixture to settle, after
which draw off the water. Then
wash with water, and finally wash by
agitation with a light solution of car
Donate of soda. When settled, draw off
and wash with water and live steam.
The oleo oil or fats are then ready forus
Observe the same proportions for all
amounts of fats or oils that are treated"
And if the cleo oils thus made are not
sweet to the taste, what do you think of
the testing of DIR. E. II. BARLEY of
Brooklyn, n. Y, which is to be found
on page three hundred eighty-five of the
New York Dairy Commissioners Re-
port, 1886 ? "The oil | showed you in
New Y ork was manufactured in Newton
Creek by Mr.. Henry Beraw. Mr.. Beraw
has the contract for the dead animals
and offal of the city of Brooklyn. The
oil in question was made from the comb
fat $50 called) of horses-that is, from
the top part of the neck of horses which
were obtained from and tried out by the
contractor. The horses were such as
die in every city from both accident
and disease. There was a large num-
Der of horses killed in Brooklyn that
were suffering from CHAMBERS. Whether
any of these horses helped TO make up
the oil in question | do not know, nor
does Mr. Beraw. The specimen | had
ia New York was very fine oil, and it
shows that an oil can be made from dead
horses which in taste and to the naked
eye appears as paatable as the best
oleo oil. Mr.. Beraw has told me that he is
satisfied that some of his oleo has been
usedfor the manufacture of oleO butter"
While you are sleeping the arch-devil
is dancing another merry dance at your
expense upon your ridge-pole. The
very butter-tub, box and package of
/ Vermont have been sought out, and
your own pure, white spruce boxes and
tubs are being copied, duplicated with
out the change of a single detail, here
in the same factories in Vermont, and
/ into these this nasty stuff is put in
/ exact imitation of your own dairy prod
ucts; and to adulterate even OleOmarga-
rine and lard and farm products there
were used last year fifty million pounds
of cotton-seed oil. | see no way for
/ the honorable maker but to secure a
| brand, have il registered with the Board
| OF Agriculture as trademark and
with it brand every tub and package,
and on your own skill aud reputation
90 before the trader or consumer.
/ Some of the state boards of agriculture
| of our western states have become
| linked in with this species of fraud
all conspiring against the pure article.
/ Similar remarks can be said about
cheese, and unless a revolution takes
place in this industry loss of immense
magnitude will occur In some states
/ already have skim-milk, rancid butter
and grease cheeses become so plenty
that the use of this healthful article
of food is sensiby decreasing. At
/ tention has been called to the inn
portance of the maple sugar industry
! by many, but nowhere have | seen its
| possibility fully stated. In travelling
about the country | noticed in the
cities all over the land great cakes, run
in tin pans-black and nasty, composed
of beeswaX, brick-dust, clay, hogs
grease and cane sugar-f1avored with
maple sugar and labeled "Pure Yer
mont Maple Sugar" There were
eager crowds of buyers. | was assured
by leading dealer in Boston that
a quantity of it came from Vermont.
Vermont produces better sugar than
any other section of the country, and yet
this industry is only slightly de-
veloped. There are many crops and
many industries not now developed in
Vermont that it will pay to work. /
l will only speak of places adapted to
manufacturing now remaining unde-
veloped, waiting the coming of some
one to clear away briers and set in mo-
ton the proper effort. Concerning the
wool industry, il is no time to sit down
and suck your thumbs because the
president thinks you can make more
money by selling your wool at less
price or going out of the business
altogether. Vermont has on several
occasions astonished the world by rea-
son of the developments in the sheep
and wool industry; she can do it again,