Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-05-28
BUTTERINE MAKERS.
Use Up All the Grease from Stock
yards and Packing Houses.
Interesting Particulars of the Busa-
ness in POrkOpOlis-The Fight
in COnxress Over OleO-
margarine.

The following letter, which has been
received by Representative Tawney
from an employee of the Chicago stock
yards, explains itself, says the Wash
ington Star:
1.-The last 10 years the Chicago pro-
duction of oleomargarine, butterine
and what not has steadily increased,
while the bygrease products of packing
houses have steadily decreased In
former years all kinds Of grease prod
ucts were procurable for manufactur-
ing purposes
"Lubricating fats, inferior fate for
soap manufacturing and low grade
grease of all kinds were ON the market
for any purpose desirable as well asfor
export, but lately this has all been
changed, and the demand for so-called
cleo oil or fat has SO increased thatthe
stock yards plant has introduced deo-
dorizing processes, SO that all kinds OF
inferior fats and offal can be turned
into products which go into the manu-
facture of oleomargarine and butter
inc. Here i'm Chicago are numerous fac
tories turning out so-called butter at
prices from eight to twenty cents a
pound.
These factories are in no way con-
nected with the stock yards; they are
always in the market as purchasers Of
stock yards fat products. The trick
and mode of doing business is as fol-
lows:
1.-The melted fat and beef lard is saved
carefully; then transferred in nicely
painted wagons to the various factories
in the city. This part of the process is
all right. But how about the thousands
of barrels of oleo oil that leave the
stock yards in nicely iron-bound, var
nished barrels? Many people think it
is for export. Not SO; these barrels are
filled with anything that can be proc
essed and deodorized and turned into
oleo oil, and then delivered to the fac
tories. When these barrels are emptied
they are returned TO the grease pro-
ducers and filled again. This is the
principal ingredient in the much-ad
vertised grade Of finely colored butter
inc on the market at the present time,
which is carefully gotten up for the
retail trade.
$50 much for the production of fine
grade butterine in the city factories
How about the product Of the packing
houses or the stock yards? That is put
on the market in bulk packages. In
these every fat product that cannot be
disposed of otherwise finds it's way into
the butterine, and is shipped all over
the country and sold as low as eight
cents a pound. No tallow is sold from
stock yards nowadays. Butterine
demands it all. Soap manufacturers,
candle manufacturers, etc., have to
seek their stocks elsewhere. Horse
killers and dead animal contractors
and fertilizing producers furnish soap
stocks, etc. This is the observation
of 10 years as an employe of the
stock yards, where have seen the bust
ness of cleo and butterine grow till
everything in the fat line has been and
is being utilized in it's productions"
The oleomargarine fight in congress
is attracting attention all over the
country, especially in New England and
in the states of the Mississippi valley.
Petitions are pouring in upon congress
in favor Of the Grout bill and the news
papers of the sections mentioned are
taking up the fight in earnest.