Year: 1875

The American Rural Home which has
warmly opposed the use OF oleomargariue as
fraud, has interviewed Prof l.. b. Arnold,
the very highest authority on dairy matters,
End has changed its views somewhat, as fol-
lows:


We have converssed with the Professor on
the subject, aud, as We understand him, he
looks at the matter from a scientific rather
than commercial viewpoint. He says that
it has been demonstrated, practically, that
the cream may be skinned from milk aud
made into butter, and that oil can be ex-
tracted from the fat Of the COW, identical
with that secreted by the COW in her milk,
aud added to the skim milk from which a
cheese can be made, rich, delicious, whole.
some, which the best Of judges cannot tell
from whole milk cheese.


This is interesting 10 scientific view, and
we are not certain but man may yet succeed
in making milk, chemically, so nearly re-
sembling the article formed by the organs
of the COW that discriminating men and
babies may not be able to tell the difference !;
but when selfish, grasping men come to put
the system into practice, will they not be
tempted by their cupdity to depart from
the highest standard, and thereby bring not
only the counterfeit into dsrepute, but throw
such suspicion on the genuine article as to
greatly depress, if not destroy, our butter
and cheese traffic 1t is unsafe to encourage
adulteratioDs.


TO this Mr. Willard responds in the Rural
New Yorker and we think he answers the
complaints we'll There is a great babblinq
about such men as Arnold and Willard aud
Wickson abetting the fraud Of selling oleo
margarine cheese for full milk cheese. They
have done nothing of the kind, for they OK
pressly say that the new article should bC
sold under its proper name. Mr.. Willard
says;


The danger, then, as above very fairly
represented, is not from the use of oleomar
garine per Sc, but only that selfish and grasp
ing men will use an inferior article in Other
words, that men will become dishonest w,
really can't see how this difficulty is TO b,
obviated without more radical change il
human nature than we have any reason I,
hope for. AS the question has thus beel
changed from oleomargarine to the doctrin'
of total deprayity, its discussion would seen
to naturally belong to the religious rathe
than to the agricultural press. We may
however, suggest that abOlishing oleOmar
gariue is not sure way to rid the world o
depravity IN general, or Of frauds and cheat
in cheese.making in particular. May we no
also truthfdlly add that in the substitutio
of cheaper fat in place Of butter for maxim
cheese, those who avoWedly make such


change would be especially careful to US
only the purest and best oleomargarin'
which is now conceded to be "indentieal i
composition with that secreted by the COZ
in her milk 2" On the other hand, may nc
some Of those who make the chief outer
against Oleomsrgarine be less particua
about the quality Of the fatty substance
their cheese so long as il comes directly frol
the cows milk? Every one knows by sa
experience that terribly poor cheese Ion
ante.dates the use Of oleouargarine, an
that some at least of that made from who
: milk is inferior in palatableness aud Who'll,
) someness to cheese made from milk thi