Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-06-18
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How sseessssai rsrnaers operate This
pePsrtmsnt OF the Farm "A Few
Hiass as 70 Gss Care Of Live stock
and Poultry.
Another Batter Fraud.


From time 10 time various nostrums
have been offered to dairymen and
ereanerymen designed 10 increase the
yield Of butter from milk or cream.
says New York Produce Review and
American Creamery. Old dairymen
viii remember one OF these which went
BY the name black pepsin" and which
was used 10 some extent before its ef-
feets upon the butter were generally
months ago an article was exhibited in
this market. which according 20 the
claims OF its promoters was 20 increase
the yield OF butter by n large percent
age The principle upon which most
OF these nostrums have been supposed
10 work lies in causing the caseln OF the
milk 10 be retained and mixed with the
hutterfat instead OF allowing II to be
separated In the buttermiik as In ordi-
nary ehurning.
The effect OF such treatment upon
the butter thus produced Is not only
unfavorable 20 its quality. but II Is evil
dent that the use % such substances Is
directly In violation OF the laws which
most OF our states have passed to safe
guard the purity OF our dairy products.
According TO newspaper reports re-
eeiyed here We note thar inspectors OF
the Pennsylvania pure food department
have recently unearthed the fact that
a number OF ereameries IN that state
have been using an article known as
Cream Refiner'' the object OF which
Is the same as that OF the nostrums
alluded 10 above According 10 the
Binghamton On. " Herald, the sub
stance Is added In small quantities to
unchurned cream and It's addition In
the ratio OF single ounce to three
pints OF cream will increase the but
ter yield Is per cent. The preparation
IL described as OF syFupy consistency
OF deep yellow color. containing cot
tonseed oil In which has been left
some other ingredients.
II appears that the Pennsylvania food
inspectors were compelled 20 pose as
prryeyors OF similar supplies in order
TO detect the use OF this fraud. and
that they were successful In obtaining
evidence against several Pennsylvania
ereamerymen who were using IL, sun
Client to cause their arrest on charges
OF criminal aduiteration. The mixture
used and the butter produced with Il
were both analyzed by the Pennsyl-
yania state chemist. At hearing OF
one Of the cases In Reading recently
Prof. c. B. Cochran testified that the
sample OF butter submitted TO him by
the state inspector contained about 5
per cent OF cottonseed oil Undoubted-
ly the Pennsylvania authorities will be
able to suppress this fraud In their
state: a few convictions with "fuli
penalty Of the law attached would do
as much as anything to give a check
TO the growth OF nefarious business
which. II carried on to any extent.
would damage our dairy industry more
than the unrestraIned use Of cleo IL
SELF Fortunately our laws are ample
TO meet the case. but Il il dlscourax-
ing to think that there are farmers and
creamerymen who have so little respect
for their profession as 70 resort to such
tricks in the effort to increase their
product. There are plenty OF honor
able. legal and praiseworthy methods
OF increasing the yield OF milk and but
ter by selection and breeding OF dairy
cattle, success in which will make a
man instead Of contemplate fraud.