Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-03-13
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Process Butter" It's Manufacture De-
scribed, and Its Qualities Com
pared With Real Creamery
Butter.
TO the Editor of The Free Press:


10 the Editor OF The Free fress
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process "utter ~
i'S maine ii'ulcateS II Is hut'er mat
mas ncth put lnfoush Il process me
stock mas been melted and the butter
lat separated from the other ingredi nts,
mat pciiE an mat Is saved OF the original
~ " ne ltt II pasteutlzeu aerated
"'lu pur'lIGu as lar as may pc IL Is theh
recohnihed WIN pasteurlzed MIX ana lal
properly rolored, sailed ana worked and
Is put up In the same ways That other but
Ter Is put up to SUIT the trade. The pro-
'tss IS expensive ana there Is always con-
SIderahle shrihkase. Inc OBJECT OF all this
IS to raise the grade OF the butter and TO
put 1t up IN more salable shape and there
by raise the price. But we must not for
get that 1t is only to limited extent thaA
the grade can be raised-no one can make
sood process butter out OF very poor stock.
Inc competition III the business is al
ready getting to be pretty sharp. In Bos-
Ton 1t is s"ld at the FACTORY to the deal
crS ana II is not likely that they think
they are buying the best creamery butter
out OF process butter factory. There
II an old story that II some men could get
out OF their graves and read the epitaphs
on their grave stones they would think
they mad somehow got into the wrong
graves, and If the stories that hear about
the labels that consumers find on butt er
are true the labels are no more relia bic
than the epitaphs are. | have been told
that some of the process butter that goes
into Vermont has some of the most popu-
lar creamery labels on it when 1t is offered
for sale.
Process butter is not adulterated butter
but is rather the opposite of that. 1t does
not increase the whole amount of butter
made and it all comes from the proDer
source-milk. 1t contains a larger per
cent of butter fat than creamery butter
IT is claimed that it keeps better and is
less injured by cold storage and eXporta.
ton than other kinds.
| attended one hearing on the process
butter question by the agricultural COM
mttee Of the Massa chusetts Legislature a
few days ago All of the time was given
to the men that were In favor of repeating
the law at that hearing. They explained
tho process" and claimed that it was not
wrong to improve a part of the butter
that is made to make It more palatahIn
more digestible, and more healthful and
that there was no reason why the law
a chemist there and he said he had lately
examined two samples of butter from the
West one process and the other creamery
They were both good, equally pure, chem
icaliy exactly alike, but there was a tribe
more butter fat in the process butter a
Mr.. Cochrane (butter exporter) spoke in
favor of process butter, said 1t could be
sold abroad If it was left unstamped but
if the government required 1t to he
stamped, that meant to the people over