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candles, chewing gum, &c. The oleo oil is barrelled for shipment 

 or used for making butterine. When used for this purpose, it 

 s mixed with cottonseed oil and milk (in the best grades 40 per 

 cent, of fresh cream is used) and in some cases with beef lard. 

 The refuse from the first boiling is pressed into cakes and sold 

 as chicken food. Hog fat is treated in the same way as to 

 hashing and cooking, but has to be continually stirred while 

 cooling ; it is then filtered and run into a trough, where it is 

 collected by a cooling cylinder, that is, a cylinder with a cold 

 water jacket revolving in the trough, to which the lard adheres. 

 The lard is scraped off, and is filled by a pump or from an 

 agitator, to prevent lumps forming, into cans or pails. 



Soap is an industry in which the packers have made a great 

 success, and of which they will probably soon have control. 



The hides are nearly all sold to tanners, either directly or 

 through brokers, but some of the packers have interests in large 

 tanneries, and send most of their hides to them. 



[Foreign Office Report, Miscellaneous Series, No. 581.] 



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Regulations have been issued by the United States Secretary 

 of Agriculture, under the terms of the Act noticed in the last 

 number of the Journal (p. 251), providing for the inspection of 

 " renovated " butter and prescribing the manner in which it is 

 to be marked. 



The " packing stock," or material from which renovated 

 butter is made, the factories, the methods of making, and the 

 finished product, are subject to rigid sanitary inspection. 

 Before leaving the factory the article must be marked, and the 

 law provides that it shall not be transported to any foreign 

 country until it has been so marked. 



Accordingly, the rules now in force require the words 

 " Renovated Butter " to be stamped in large indented letters 



