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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMENS ASSOCIATION. 
Va., writes in the Southern Clinic , of May, 1880, that 
oleomargarine differs in its microscopical appearance 
as well as in its nutritive and dietetic qualities from true 
butter, that the fats in it are not subjected to a heat 
sufficient to destroy the germs of septic and putrefac¬ 
tive organisms, and that there may also be introduced 
into the system by its means the eggs which develop in 
tape-worm. 
And he also states that he has frequently found in 
oleomargarine eggs resembling those of the tape-worm. 
Mr. Michels says I have reason to believe that the 
refuse fat of at least one pork packing establishment is 
used for oleomargarine, and as the trade increases fat of 
every description will probably De offered for sale, even 
that from the carcasses of diseased animals. 
Prof Piper says that “ it is not unreasonable to suppose 
that one of these populated stomachs chopped up with the 
fat, even though washed and cleaned, may contain thousands 
of living organisms.” 
In view of the great and increasing magnitude of 
this business; and the report of the French Academy of 
Medicine; and the discoveries of the scientific gentlemen 
before named; and the danger of using the raw fats and 
stomach’s of diseased animals, and of those that die on 
the cars, which number hundreds of thousands annually , 
and of those that die of pleuropneumonia, or cattle fever, 
or hog colera. I think we have no reason to rejoice over 
the erection of these enormous factories which are now 
supplying the tables of our hotels, restaurants, board¬ 
ing-houses and private families with oleomargarine butter 
and cheese. 
One thing cannot be denied by the great capitalists en¬ 
gaged in this manufacture, viz: That not three men or 
women in a hundred would eat an ounce of these articles 
if they could know by color, or otherwise, what they were 
eating. 
No man would want to give his wife or children, for 
butter the raw, uncooked fats of mixed animals that have 
died of disease, and how manufacturers can in all cases 
