Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-06

LII ucIS Ol eTnOnG Wnen Cney are
allowed themselves to be bedeviled
into abandoning the old Morgan stock
Of horses for a mohgrel breed that
developed speed only in the growth
of a ring-bone and SPAWN, and in
size only in the amount of loss incur
red, and of strength only in ability
to haul mortgage. Vermont is bet
ter than Kentucky to raise horses.
The battle of Bennington was fought
by a British expedition sent out to
steal thousand Vermont horses, to
mount ReidsePs dragons, so great
was our reputation more than a cen
tury ago for fine horses. | have seen
Q recent statement of the commits
sioner of agriculture in Iowa that
the dairy product of Iowa for the
first six months of the year just clos
ed, was ten million pounds of butter
greater than like period of the pre-
vious year. They are offering to the
willing ones in this department OPP
portunities in this state second to
none in any state of the Union.
In the presence of this large num-
ber of butter-mak and dealers, it
may seem super1uous for me to say
very much upon the subject of dairy
ing; but it is the largest single indus
try in the United Stats. Sixty-fve
million milch COWS which, if the value
of their milk is reckoned at ten cents
amounts to the enormous sum of
S400, 100000. And Vermont sus-
tains relation to this of the first
magnitude. | may here remark that
one of the needs of this state is
bureau of farming statistics, and /
want to commend to the honorable
Board of Agriculture this subject. |
believe they can make good begin
ming with little or no money, and es-
tablish its Importance to the satisfac
ton of all. There ought to be some
mention of a department for preven-
tion of
ADULTERATION IN FOOD PRODUCTS.
One of the main causes of the de-
preston in dairy products is the
great adulteration in butter and
cheese, in the former, mainly by the
use of oleomargarine, which has low
cred the price of cows at least SO
head, is running the health of the
people and has reduced the income of
farmers millions of dollars. While
our state has a law to protect the
public it should 90 further and com
pei license to he taken out. / hold
in my hand a circular giving the
names of different poisons named in
the United States patents for the
of this vile stnff: Sugar
of lead, saltpetre, nitrate of potassia,
sulphuric acid, carbonic acid, castor |
oil, chalk, oil of sunfower seeds, ,chlo-
rate of potash, peroxide of manga
nese, nitric acid and forty others be-
sides. The Boston market in the
main controls Vermont 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 man
lfacturers and dealers; that he had |
sent out three to four hundred notices
TO dealers in the city of Boston and
lid not know whether they were CON-
olying with the law or not? Let me
give YOU a statement taken from the
specification of patent No. 306, 1924,
Oct. Z, 1885, which form seventy-five
per cent of the manufactured product.
81 first fuse together in an iron pot or
pan the following ingredients in about
he proportion named-ten pounds of
lustic soda, or it's equivalent in caustic
potash, and seven pounds of chlorate of
potash. After fusion add in small quanti-
les, at various times, eight pounds of the
inc powder of black oxide of manganese.
4 After the above are thoroughly incorpor
tied, add twenty-five pounds of the BIZ
E in, ir1,r |
he heat, stir we'll until the fusion and
irmness 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 mix
ure (Which is now chemical salts) dis
olved in one half gallon of fat or oil.
Then add thereto six fluid ounces of di-
uted sulphuric acid and continue the a2i-
alton, and boil with live steam until the
mixture becomes thorough and complete.
Then allow the mixture to settle, after
Which draw off the chennel water. Then
wash with water, and finally wash by agi-
alton with slight solution of carbonate
# soda. When settled, draw off and wash
With water and live steam. The oleo oil
|
II fats are then ready for use. Observe
he same proportions for all amounts
# fats or oils that are treated"
And if the oleo oils thus made are
lot sweet to the taste, what do you
hink of this testing of DR.. K. III.
}artley of Brooklyn, N. Y, and to
,e found on page three hundred
ighty-fve of the New York Dairy
Commissioner Report, 1886.
"The oil ] showed you in New York
vas manufactured in Newton Greek by
henry Beraw. Mr.. BeraW has the con-
ract for the dead animals and offal of the
ity of Brooklyn. The oil in question
vas made from the comb fat $50 called)
If horses: that is, from the top part of
he neck of horses which were obtained
md tried out by the contractor. The
lorses were such as die in every city
rom both accident and disease. There
vas large number of horses killed in
3rooklyp thaF were suffering from the
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