IO OLEOMARGARINE AND BUTTERINE. 



stroyed the effect of previous legislation, and it is the design of the association this winter to 

 frame a law modeled after that of New York (carefully avoiding those features whose constitu- 

 tionality has been contested) and appointing a commissioner to enforce its provisions. 



In Iowa, the letter says, a similar movement is on foot, and petitions praying for the ap- 

 pointment of a dairy commissioner are being largely signed throughout the State. In other 

 States which have no laws bearing particularly upon this traffic, an effort is being made to 

 press their passage, and the dairymen are appealed to to do their utmost to prevail upon their 

 representatives to take prompt action. 



INGREDIENTS USED IN OLEOMARGARINE. 



The following is a list, taken from the patents recorded in the Patent Office at Wash- 

 ington, of the ingredients claimed to be used in the manufacture of this article. Manufac- 

 turers deny that they use all the ingredients named in these patents, but it is certainly not 

 unfair to assume that when they mention a certain ingredient in their application for a patent, 

 as necessary for its making, they actually use it. This list was obtained officially from 

 the Patent Office by Assistant State Dairy Commissioner Van Valkenburgh of New York. 



NITRIC ACID, DRY BLOOD ALBUMEN, MUSTARD SEED OIL, 



SUGAR OF LEAD, SALTPETRE, BICARBONATE OF POTASH, 



SULPHATE OF LIME, BORAX, BORACIC ACID, 



BENZOIC ACID, ORRIS ROOT, SALICYLIC ACID, 



BUTYRIC ACID, BE-CARBONATE OF SODA, COTTON SEED OIL, 



GLYCERINE, CAPARIC ACID, ALUM, 



CAPSIC ACID, SULPHITE OF SODA, Cows' UDDERS, 



COMMERCIAL SULPHURICACID, PEPSIN, SAL SODA, 



TALLOW, LARD, FARINACEOUS FLOUR, 



BUTYRIC ETHER, CAUSTIC POTASH, CARBOLIC ACID, 



CASTOR OIL, CHALK, SLIPPERY ELM BARK, 



CAUL, OIL OF SESAME (or benne) OLIVE OIL, 



GASTRIC JUICE, TURNIP SEED OIL, BROMA CHLORALUM, 



CURCUMINE, OIL OF SWEET ALMONDS, OlL OF PEANUTS, 



CHLORATE OF POTASH, STOMACH OF PIGS, SHEEP, SUGAR, 



PEROXIDE OF MAGNESIA, OR CALVES, CAUSTIC SODA. 



NITRATE OF SODA, 



It is not sought to show that all these ingredients are used in any single process, but the 

 fact is established that nitric acid is used in all, and it is probable that the other acids named 

 are employed when the most powerful agents are necessary for deodorizing putrid or diseased 

 fats. 



Speaking of the materials used under these processes, State Dairy Commissioner Brown 

 said : 



" Our hearts grow warm with gratitude deeply stirred, and our appreciation of virtue is 

 most delicately touched as we contemplate with much relief and great comfort the consoling 

 fact that some of these patentees, these alleged promoters of digestion and benefactors of our 

 race, have considerately determined that if this compound of acids and alkalies, animal facts 

 and other stuff must be pitched into the human stomach as an article of food, provision shall 

 be made against the danger of an utter collapse of all the vital iorces of the victim by the 

 introduction of such comparatively wholesome ingredients as gastric juice and slippery elm 

 bark." 



The publication of a list of sixty ingredients named in the various patents covering the 



