Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-03

and Of a department for the prevention Of .
the adulterution of food products. On this F.
latter subject he said
One of the main causes of the depression
IN dairy products is the great adulteration
in butter and cheese, in the former mainly
bv the use of oeomargarine which has
lowered the price of cows at least $40 per
head is running the health of the people and
has reduced the income Of farmers millions
Of dollars While our state has a law 10
protect the public it should go further and
compel license TO he taken out | hold
in my hand a circular giving the names of
different posons named in United States
patents for the manufacture of this vile
stuff Sugar of lead, satpetre, nitrate of
potassa, sulphurc acid, carbonic acid,
castor oil, chalk oil Of sunlloWer seeds, chic
rate of potash, peroxide Of manganese,
nitric acid and forty others besides. The
Boston market in the main controls Yer
mont products, and do you 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 manu-
factrers and dealers that he had sent out
three to four hundred notices to dealers in
the city Of Boston and did not know wheth
err they were complying with the law or
mott Let me give you statement taken
from the specification Of patent No BOG, 32l,
oct. T. 1884, which form seventy-hve per
cent of the manufactured product
81 first fuse together in an iron pot or
pan the following ingredients in about the
proportion named-ten pounds of cuustic
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 incorpora
ted, | add twenty-five pounds of the hi
chromate of potash, and, in increasing the
heat, stir well until the fusion and iirmness
of the mass are complete. To subject the
fats or fatty oils to treatment | use the
following described mixture Two ounces
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 becomes thorough
and complete. Then allow the mixture to
settle, after which draw off the the chen
mel water Then wash with water, and
| finally wash by agitation with a slight so
luton of carbonite of soda. When settled,
draw off and wash with water aud live
steam. The cleo oil or fats are then ready
for use. Observe the same proportions for
all amount 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
this testimony of DR.. L. A. BARLEY of
Brooklyn, n. y. to be found on page
3S5 of the New York Dairy Commissioners
report, 1886.
The oil | showed YOU in New York was
| IN, l,Ns MT
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 ESQ 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 large number of
horses killed in Brooklyn that were suffer
ing 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 in New York was a very
fine OIL and shows that an oil can he made
from dead horses which in taste and to the
naked eye appears as palatable as the best
cleo oil. Mr.. Beraw has told me that he is
satisfied that some Of his oleo has been used
for the manufacture of oleo butter
y
dancing another merry dance at your eX-
pense upon your ridge-pole The very but
ter tub, box and package of Vermont have
been sought out, and your own pure white
spruce boxes and tubs are being copied.
duplicated without the change of a single
detail, here in the same factories in Yer
mont, and into these this nasty stuff is put
in exact imitation of your own dairy pro
ducts 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
max er but to secure a brand have it regis
tered with the board of agriculture as your
trade mark. and with it brand every tub
and package, and on your own skill and
{ reputation 20 before the trader or con
sumner.
Gov. Fuller said that the possibilities OF
the Vermont maple sugar industry had not
yet been fully estimated-the industry had
in fact been only slightly developed. Pro
lection shonld he had against the black
nasty compounds of beeswax, brick dust
clay, hogs grease and cane sugar, Favored
with maple sugar and labeled Pure Yer
mont Maple Sugar" such as are sold in al
, the large cities.
In closing the speaker said
"As a manufacturer, having business re
lations extending over a wide section, ! eX
perience the necessity of having a ike,
l high standard for my products. Let mt
a urge the farmer seeking to build up trad,
5 and reputation, of the adviSability of max
ing standard products also having gaineC
g, Il good customer, be able to retain him b,
pleasing him with articles always of tn,
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