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Show OLEOMARCARlPf E. OR AUT1FCIA1. BUTTEIi MOW IT WAf INVENTED. A French chemist eat rurnmatii among his blowpipes and crucibles, it was a question ol butler. He had noticed an oleaginous deposit in milk, which, when, subjected to manipulation, manipula-tion, became butter, pure, rich, and fragrant. The deposit was called croam, but whence its Eources? The blow-pipes and crucibles were ignorant. ignor-ant. Tho chemist was perplexed. Did it arise from the food consumed by the cow, or was it the fruit of some inherent quality': Ho would experiment, experi-ment, bo tbe chemist bought him ft cow. Ho tied her up for a week and fed her upon anticipations. Nothing else to eat did she rejoice in. Tlie cow marveled, but gave her ordinary amount of milk. The milk rendered so much cream. Nearly it was not the result of mastication and diges- discovery. It killed the cow. A woman once owned a gooae that laid golden eggs. She killed the goose. Tlie chemist had an advantage over the owner of the aurifercus product. The chemist could buy more cows. He secured auothor cow and examined exam-ined and analyzed her milk. He found iho. crftm to , be largely ota certain peculiar oil. Then he cut open his dead cow and took out her fat, and subjected it to intense heat. Net result: tallow. "Won'tdo," said the chemist; "no butter there." He killed the second cow, and opened her. "Temperature 105," said the chemist, making a note. His scheme was beginning to develop. Temperature Tempera-ture lOo was enough to try tlie oil out of the cells and turn it into the veins and udder of the living cow. But temperature 105 deg. was not enough to break the cells in which the oil was contained. He ground the fat up between two mill-stones. Then he subjected the mass to temperature 105 deg. Net result: disgust but not discouragement on tho part of the chemist. He subjected the product ol temperature 105 to pressure, geu-! geu-! tie at first and then stronger. In tho cloth in which it had been wrapped he found stearins; in his trough, oil. He analyzed the oil; result, success, me fundamental principle, the root of all bulter. Onanist vs. cow, and chemiat ahead. "I will call it 'oleomargarine,' " he said. And he did. And, gentle reader, if you will carefully examine the lubricator of your buckwheat cakes this morning, you may find a practical practi-cal application of the chemiat'a experiment. expe-riment. America heard of it, but kept quiet ai:d went into tho manufacture of butter. Animals died on every hand. The stuff could be made and sold for one-half tho natural product. In taste and appearance the two were practically identical, A corporation was formed called the United States dairy company. The process was patented, and fabulous prices charged for territories. Illinois cost one packer $300,000 cash and one cent per pound royalty. He has one of tho largest packing-houses in Chicago, Chi-cago, and has manufactured a large amount. A Tribune reporter visited him during the week. "Uo you make butter?" "I have mailesoine." He showed how it was done. He claimed it was based on strictly scien-tide scien-tide principles. It had been established estab-lished that oil from the fat of the ;?,WWcll ftrtayjo. udder and i 'taking out tho fat and securing tfie oil, the basis was arrived at all the moro readily. Then he exhibited the process. It was simple. The fat from the kiudeyor caul was placed in a cylinder and thoroughly cleaned. Then it was put in a grinder having knives working transversely, liko an old fashioned SAL'S AGE MACHINE, and minced up. This was to break tho cells. Tlie n the mass was put into tabs, iron inside and wood without. with-out. Between the two water was introduced in-troduced giving a temperature of 105 with a dasher to secure an even heat to all particles. When raised to the proper temperature it was drawn ofl into tanks in a warm room and permitted per-mitted to granulate. Huge hydraulic presses took hold of it aitor it had been carefully wrapped up in cloths. The pressure left tbe cloths- full of atearine and dropped the oil into tanks. It was then ready for use. Five quarts ol ntiik were placed in a churn and churned five minutes. Ono hundred pounds of oil were then added. In ten minutes it was drawn ofl, chilled quickly withice. Anpotto was used for coloring. A little bicarbonate bicar-bonate of soda, powdered ugar, and salt wero added: "'d 125 pounds of butter were l'v for market. The pacL--- 8ftJ's ue can mako 50,000 pon-s Per day. Price, 22 cents per tound. "Are you manufacturing much no 7;?" "Not any nt all. There was a big export trade. We used to send a great deal to England, but the sale has been suddenly shut ofl for reasons that though they hurt us now, will be of benefit to our trade hereafter." THE RE AS 3X3 WERE DECIDED and clearly defined kicking on the part ofthe European dairymen. The ne.v stull was eating into old profits. The dairymen petitioned in England and the government compelled the sellers ot tho stuff to label it "Oleomargarine." "Oleo-margarine." There was a great prejudice pre-judice against it, and people who knew what it was would not buy it. "But it will como out all right," said tho packer. "la there any prejudice against it here?" "There used to be, but all mv workmen and many ofthe neighbors about here use it, and won't use any-tiling any-tiling else," "Do you use it!" "I and all my family. It is as good butter as we can buy. Try some " Ho dugout a slab with his knife, and the reporter ate it. It tasted a I little fatty, but perhaps if the opera-ion opera-ion of manufacture had been unknown un-known to tho scribe ho could not .u vcu-u us taste iroai that of 0:dimry butter. "It is as clear as any butter," slid the packer, "and healthier." "Do you sL-il any here?" "No, we e.xjurl it entirely, but now that they know the process 011 the other side they buy the oil and make the butter themselves. The oil is worth lo cents per pound." It is coutjndLd that not a little of this buttir so exported has como back in more arialocratio fihapes. French butter, sold to tho hijiti-toned at $1 per pound, is sail to bo largely made of oltomaw ner I . Perhaps it is liealthierOhicago pound than at 20 tr Tribune, |