Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-03-09
II PRODUCT COMPLIES WITH
BUTTER FAT REQUIREMENT
IT is PERFECTLY SAFE.
DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER
EMERY ELUClDATES FACTS
IN THE CASE.

among butUermakers and creamery
pa,fuus because Oh IaIure 10 under
sLauu II Or ~ comprehend las lInpoI-
lance III lue economy OF the dalry
business IS one IuaJ mas long been
a perpleA4ty 10 lme producer ana
maker VI aalry products. 10
clear away some OF TINS con-
iuslon ana ground the aalrymen
III the basic truths upon which the
problem rests DAIRY ana Food Com
missioner J. z. Emery mas published
a circular letter IN winch he points
Out that under the terms Of the
DAIRY and food laws OF Wisconsin,
butlSr that contains less than S2.5 per
cent. OF butter tat is adulterated, and
hence unlawful 1t is misdemeanor
20 sell as butter a product falling be
low that legal standard in butter
tat. The imposing OF heavy legal pen
alties for a tritilng excess of mo1s-
tuTe in butter While closing the eyes
10 the manufacture and sale of but
ter deficient in butter fat, seems very
much like straining at gnat and
swallowing a camel, says Mr.. Emery.
Congress has provided penalties Tor
the shipment in interstate commerce
OF adulterated butter, and has pro-
vided that the commissioner of in
ternal revenue with the approval OF
the secretary of the treasury may
make the necessary rules and regula-
tiOns for carrying into effect the act
relating TO aduIterated butter. Up to
the present time those rules and reg
ulations have provided that 16 per
cent. or more of moisture shall Con-
stitute adulteration of butter; but
those regulations are Scent as to tie
minimum amount OF butter fat, al
though a minimum standard of So
per cent. butter fat for butter has
been established by the United States
secretary OF agriculture under au-
thOTity of congress.
Upon the other hand" says the
commission, the legislature or Wis
consin has fixed a minimum standard
of $50 per cent butter fat for but
ter, and it is a physical, as well as
practical impOssibility for butter con
tanning S2.5 per cent. butter fat TO
contain as much as 1888 per cent. or
moisture and the usual amount OF
SAL and the normal amount If caseln.
Therefore, when butter contains S2.5
per cent. of butter fat, the buttermaK-
eT, creamery manager and dealer in
butter need have no fear that such
butter is in violation of the national
regulation as to moisture content, or
in other words that his butter is
adulterated with an over amount or
moisture. The accurate testing of the
butter fat content of butter can be
made as easily as can be the testing
for the butter fat content of milk or
cream. Buttermakers, Creamery man
ayers and dealers in butter should
beware of all talk of anything less in
Wisconsin than an 50 per cent. but
ter fat content in butter"
BY the term "overrun" is meant
the difference between the amount OF
butter fat in a quantity of milk OF
cream as determined by the Babcock
test and the amount Of butter manu-
featured from the same.
In 100 pounds of milk testing 4 per
cent. by the Babcock test there are
4 pounds of butter fat. The greatest
possible amount of legal butter, that
is butter containing S2.5 per cent.
butter fat, that it would be possible
TO manufacture from the 4 pounds OF
butter fat if there were no losses OF
butter fat whatever, would be ind1-
Gated by dividing by S25. The quo
tient is 4S4S4+. This amount, that
is 4S4S4, less 4 gives .S4S4. which Is
the amount of overrun. This amount,
that is S4S4, divided by gives .212l
or 21,21 per cent, which would be
the per cent. of overrun. This rep
resents the maximum theoretical per
cent. of overrun. The actual or prac
teal Overrun must always be less
than this, because there are some in
evitable losses that must necessarily
reduce this per cent. of overrun,
namely. the loss OF butter fat in
skim milk that cannot be recovered,
the loss Of butter fat in the cream
which adheres to the implements ana
the loss of butter fat in buttermilk.
An expert buttermaker has it in his
power to reduce all necessary losses
10 minimum; but he can never if
he does accurate and lawful work in
the weighing, sampling and testing
o. the milk and cream obtain in the
manufacture of legal butter an over
run in any case that quite equals 21.2I
per cent
Butter sold in Wisconsin which
contains less than S25 per cent. but
ter fat is adulterated." says Mr.. En-
cry, and it is no less the legal duty
of the dairy and food commissioner
20 prosecute for the sale of sucn
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