The record-union., 1893-02-09

1t merely collect the butter that is in the
milk or the butter and cheese; if the lat
ter 1t should not be sold for 'butter''?
SUBSCRIBER, Butte County.
Pepsin is nitrogenous substance.
forming with dilute hydrochloric acid the
active constituent of the gastric juice in
anlmals-the food solvent. 1t is $50 per
cent. carbon, 6.7 of hydrogen, us of
nitrogen and Z.5 of oxygen. AS OBJ
tanned from the walls of calves and pigs
stomachs it is much in use in medical
practice to supply the loss of gastric juice
1or digestion, or the imperfect secretion
OF gastric juice. Rennet or runnet is the
prepared inner membrane of the sucking
cali, and is pepsin, roughly speaking. 1t
Is used to coagulate milk, and depends
Tor It's effectiveness on the acid gastric
juice contained in it. Its use in cheese
making is therefore easily understood.
we have never known pepsin use to
prove Injurious las it simply supplies a
want in the stomachl when taken by
dyspeptics. As to black pepsin, as we
understand it, it is supposed "discov
butter yield. In this connection, Will
lam Northwood of Forest Hill writes to
the RECoRD-UNIoN:
Il saw communication in the
WEEKLY UNION of January q, 1899
written by Mrs. Mary Hall of Omaha,
Neo., about increasing the product of
butter while churning through the addi-
ton of black pepsin. 1don't see how any
one can get more butter out of a certain
quantity of cream than there is butter in
1t. 1t is only a chemical which congeals
the milk into cheesy substance. OF
course 1t has some resemblance to butter,
but such an article is not tirst-class but
ter. 1t may be good enough for the writer
OF that communication and her patrons
out in Nebraska, but can unhestatingly
pronounce it humbug and villainous
fraud, which unscrupulous parties are
imposing on the farming and dairying
communities.
or course, it may pay anyone to try it,
winch IS well enough as far as experience
is concerned, and you will be great deal
wlser-to your sorrow. 1t is fine way
to spoil your butter, and your custom,
too. Experience teaches me that you
cannot make pound of butter out of a
pound OF milk. 1t is about as bad as try
ing to do the impossible. You have
probably heard of people in whose
mouths butter wouldn't melt. 1t ought
to convince anyone that they live in the
wilds of Nebraska. 1t may be an honest
way OF cheating, as far as can see, and
those who follow this noble way of doing
hnger OF scorn pointed at them, which
will be the thought of every honest
farmer or dairyman.
1.-The writer herself admits that the
markets in Nebraska are poor. Is it any
wonder? The reason ought TO suggest
itself, but as long as her customers are
satisfied l suppose it is all and right while
she is making money, why should she
kick?
Pure, innocent butter is good enough
for me any day of the week, but don't
pity those poor mortals that spread such
butter on their daily bread, doctored, to
be broughtin this world with such stuff
as black pepsin.' Hoping these few
lines will put the readers of the RECORD
UNION on their guard about this so-calIed
black pepsin fraud, I, for one, am not in
she deserves in the world with her but
ter-making business in Nebraska"
The following we take from an agri-
cultural paper:
''Much butter from little milk.-Take
four ounces of pulveriZed alum, one-half
ounce pulverized gum arabic. fifty grains
of pepsin; place in bottle for use as re-
quired. A tablespoonful of this mixture
added to one pint of new milk will, upon
churning, make one pound of butter.
Agents are selling this secret for S5."
1t is sufficient to say that whoever uses
such mixture, in our opinion, deserves
to suffer.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: Is irrigable
good word? cannot find it in Webster's
dictionary, not even in the very latest
edition-the International.
STUDENT, Sacramento.
Yes, it is good word. That you do
not find it in Webster's dictionary is not
surprising. You will find irriga-
bic in the Century dictionary in
the works on irrigation engineering, in
the engineering magazines, in the laws
of California, Colorado, Arizona, New
Mexico and Utah; in essays by good
so on. Why word in such common
use, and that has such clear meaning,
should be persistently rejected, as it has
been for years, by the editors of Web
ster's Unabridged, passes understanding.
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