Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-04-10
COCOANUT BUTTER.
Cocoanut Really Nothing But a
Vegetable Cow.
A FACTORY STARTED IN CHICAGO.
The Amiable Cow May Soon be RELOCATED
to the Menagerle-Contain no
Disease Germs.


ter could be made from cocoanuts. He
brought the product of his early ex-
periments to Chicago and when some
of the wealthy men of the city had
smacked their lips over it they con-
cluded to enter into active competition
with the humble cow and the butterine
factory. So they rented brick build
ing located ON little island among
the north pier railroad tracks and put
i'll the necessary machinery. That
was last fall. Now the factory-and
it is the only one of its kind in the
worlds rolling out firkins of cocoa
nut lard and cocoa butter.
The inventor says that the cocoanut
is really nothing but a vegetable COW,
and a very convenient one, too. 1t
secretes milk that will not sour too
quickly for use in warm climate and
its meat yields an oil which possesses
most of the qualities of butter. In
fact, the natives of Ceylon, where the
cocoanut is produced in enoromus guam
titles, find far more uses for their vege-
table COWS than northerners do for their
animal COWS. And their stock ism {
troubled with tuberculosis-so there is
no necessity for sterilizing tho milk
before the baby Cingalese can drink it.
Before Mr.. Campbell and his COM
pany can get stock for making their
new kind of butter it has to go through
number of interesting processes in
Ceylon. The natives of that country
measure their wealth by the number of
coooanut palms which they own.
-Four or five big trees make man
millionaire and enable his wife and
children to wear much more elegant
rings on their ankles than do any of
their neighbors. They keep up their
nurseries by planting new palms as
fast as the old ones die out. The nuts
are first sproued by burying them in
the sand and seaweed of the beach.
Some time in September they are set in
holes three feet deep and from twenty
to thirty feet apart. When the tree is
years old it bears its first crop, pro-
ducing about sixty of the great husk-
covered nuts every year. The palm
grows about 100 feet high, with a
feathery tuft of leaves at the top, and
it is said that whole troops of monkeys
earn their board and lodging by climb
ing up and gathering the nuts.
After the milk has been extracted
the white meats are broken into fine
pieces and sent to the mill, where
the rich oil is boiled and pressed out
of them. About twenty-five gallons
of oil come from every 1000 nuts.
Part of this product is used by the in-
habitants, and the rest is run into huge
pipes holding 2,S00 pounds each, where
it hardens into pure white substance
not unlike tallow. After being COW
cred with cabalistic figures and letters
the pipes are shipped all over the
world. Last year 25,000,000 pounds
came to this country, most Of it for
the use of soap and candle makers.
A small proportion is consumed fo1
medicinal purposes. Part of this enor-
nous quantity found its way to the
factory ON north pier, and it is now
being manufactured into butter. The
visitor is warned of his approach tC
the establishment even before he can
see its tall smokestack by the tropical
odor of cocoanut oil, which grows
gradually stronger until he is inside
the building.
AS the pipes of oil arrive at the fac
tory they are taken TO the top floor an6
rolled into a long, light room, the
temperature of which is raised to 13(
degrees by means of steam pipes. Here
the oil is reduced to a rich yellow
liquid, after which the pipes are ROLLED
out between rows of clean, new tanks
These tanks are made double like al
oatmeal cooker, and when the oil i
inside it can be raised to high tenn
perature by the water in the jacket
A solution, the constituent parts 0
which are only known to Mr.. Camp
bell, is put in to kill the fermentin,
germs of the oil. This is the mos
important part Of the process. The OF
next goes down stairs, where it
mixed with water in q centrifugal ma
chine not unlike cream separator
The velocity of the bowl rises to 400
revolutions minute, throwing of
the water and the germ-killing solution
through one spout and the oil through
another. The "stock," as the oil i
called, goes next to storage tanks. am
then, after being weighed, into tin vat
partly filled with water. Here
cold air blast is injected into it wit
great force. granulating or granting tn
oil until it looks like Jumps of pur
white butter floating in burtermilk. 1t j
shoveled out with sieve like scoops
through which the water drains away
1t is next loaded into big trucks and lei
in storeroom for several days t
"ripen, or develop acids, and then it
put into an ordinary creamery churn an
butter worker, where the water
thoroughly squeezed out of it. If