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this fact, and sees the folly of inaugu- for „rating a free trade crusade upon the eve of a presidential election, which must end in disaster to the Democratic party, is a cause of sincere congratulation to thoughtful men in all parts of the country. Wo are rejoiced to infer that the reported differences upon the tariff question in the editorial staff of that journal, have been composed, and that ita able support will hereafter bo given to home interests and home labor.uc w• UtilVC 1X1gCttl »lue 1 hard verai Ulkl lied ha U have with well•troitlonD«tlt;aboion©whlhapla:(sirlariWhvcrinitiRnuua Butter.A committee of the Now York Legislature is now making an inquiry into the bogus butter trade, and some fearful discoveries have already been made, os witness the following evidenco:George Hildebrand, a cotnmUilon dealer in produce in the city, «u the first wltneu. Ho testified that he cells about 241 tubs of counterfeit butler » day, on commission. When he receives the stuff it is branded only with tho shipper's mark. It it branded oleomargarine In the witness's store. Tho bulterlne as well aa the other is branded oleomargarine. He brands the butlarlne oleomargarine because he thinks it best to do so. The witness favored the committee with the current prices of oleomargarine and butterlne, which he said were from 12 to 14 cents and from 20 to 41 cents to the retailers.J. D. Quinlan, grocer, testified that he sells from fivo to seven tubs of the queer a week at retail. When a child or anybody else comes in and asks for thlrty-ccnt butter, bo sells them bogus butter. His clerks have no in •tractions except to sell the stuff as oleomargarine to persons who call for that compound.He pays about 14^ cents a pound for oleomargarine and has sold it for butter for twenty ] v I eight cents a pound. He sells the spurious ar * ticle because be can moke more money on It 88 than on butter. tlra. II. Lanfcrty testified that he makes about rt 2,MO,000 pounds of oleomargarine a year at his I creamery. In it he uses from fifty to seventy 1 gallons of benne oil a day. This oil, he said, utt I is produced from the benno plant, and Is ay I highly prized by the natives of Africa, who use ,at [ it Internally and externally. Hr. Lanfcrty explained his method of producing neutral lard oil, such as Is used In making butterlne. He said that in the ice water into which the oil was drawn to be cooled he put nitric acid— about half an ounce to 200 gallons of water. •JhU, the wit ness sold, was tho part of the process which Mr. Robison, the swine-cream cry man from Chicago, had refused to explain to the committee on tho preceding day. He guessed that there were twelve factories in New York and Brooklyn, which make altogether about eighteen million pounds of oleomargarine a year. Tho witness gave his recipe for making butter: 1,000 pounds of oleomarga- *] riac, Mi) pounds neutralized lard, 10 gallons of bcnae oil, drawn Into a chum wltb SOI) or 000 pounds of milk and M ounces of coloring matter, churned and worked.Other witnesses testified to the some effect. It is evident, from the testimony, that very little real Northern but ter now finds its way to consumers.At the last session of our Legislature an act was passed which requires hotel ami restaurant keepers to pot up a sign if oleomargarine, butte rine and other substitutes for butter are used in their establishments. Dealers In such commodities are also required to put up a notice to the same effect. The object of the act la to protect consumers against counterfeit butter. We have never seen ono of these signs or notices about hotels and eating-houses, though there is no doubt that spurious articles are given to guests all over the country. Will not grand juries and other ministers of the law look into the matter? Good butter is a luzuiy. Adulterated butter Is the worst article of food that finds ita way to our tables.re-on. ■ed, ion. s a mel sal-Tho iba-roan the ieen Ibtme tho ivor* 3 row ible, pre-it wehem-iional uina* safed I them t Mr. rhere owinAqksts should not fail to see oar ; Em-1 offer of premiums elsewhere in this issue. If
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Macon Weekly Telegraph and Messenger
Macon, Georgia, US
Fri, Mar 07, 1884
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