The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-06-06
PURE CHEESE HERE.
The Filled Article Has Found
No Market.
EFFECT OF LAW JUST PASSED,
1t VIII BE Enforced by Collector Glea.
son, OF the Internal Revenue De-
partment.

The enforcement n this district OF the
filed cheese bill. passed Thursday in the
senate. will devoive upon Deputy coliec-
tor J. p. Gleason, of the United States in
ternai revenue department. II will prob
ably add but slightly to his duties. as In
the opinion OF two representative dealers
In dairy products who were interviewed
yesterday, there is bat little IL any filed
cheese handled here.
Deputy Collector Gleason said yesterday
that he could not tell the amount of reve-
nue. that will come 10 the Office under the
new law. as he had no idea of the extent
to which filled cheese Is handled among
local dealers. While no date was given
in the telegraph.c report printed in yester-
day mornings papers. he thought time
had been set for the law to go into effect.
and thought il would be after congress had
adjourned. Within the next ten DAYS he
expects to receive instructions and instru-
ments from Washington City which VIII
enable him to test the cheese sold herA
He will visit all stores in which the prod
net Is handled His work will be confined
10 the wholesale and retail dealers, fdf he
said. he id not know OF filed cheese fac
tory In this state. ard thought all OF II
was manufactured in the East
J. b. Ager thought the new law would
have very little effect here. only so far as
the Eastern market Is affected
I'VE have come TO the point now" hs
said, where our products have to COM
pete with those of the East. Every pound
of filled cheese that has been sold has kent
corresponding amount of pure cheesa
from the market, and the license making
filled cheese more costly will ra Sc the price
of pure cheese both In the East and here.
though the West will not feel II so directly.
] consider 1t very beneficial to the dairy
interests throughout the state. ana II will
do for cheese what the fight against oleo-
margarine d,d for butter.
he new law will be felt most In Wis
consin, which has gone into the manufac-
ture OF filled cheese on a very large SCALE
ana mas supplied. in fact, the majority
used
Charles Louch. Of Louch, Augustine a
20. viewed the matter from both a WHOLE
saler's ana retailers point OF view.
There has never been a demand for
hlled cheese here" he said. .sIt ia too
easily told from the pure article. because
or It's oiliness. There was never as much
money IN the adulteration OF cheese as in
outfer. because it was detected without
trouble. The demand now IS for nure
cheese. and there are very few families
VINO would take the poor imitation because
OF its cheapness. Two or three years aro
some of the filled cheese was manufactnred
IN California. and small lots were ordered
ny some merchants here. The filled cheese
met WITH such poor reception that the
experiment was not repeated.
Inc adulterant used in both filled cheese
ana oleomargarine IS neutral lard manu-
featured by the packing firms bv boiling
down leaf lard 1t is perfectly tasteless.
Hoiiaad Is the great market for neutral
lard. and they manufacture more oleomar-
garine and filled cheese than any other
country In the world. the United States
not excepted"