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THE COURIER
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of Process Butter
Kmbnrrassntent will not engulf
creamery men or confusion harass
them when the oleomargarine bill be
comes a law. If It ever does. This
measure requires that all "process but
ter" be plainly stamped with its true
cognomen so that he who sells and
the man who buys may know Just
what he purchases in the compact
brick he takes away.
In the local market "process butter'"
is always sold as such. From the
creamery It comes on its own merits
and it is up to the retailers to do the
square thing by the unknowing.
"Creamery butter" is made by the
latest, most Improved and most hy
gienic process. It is the right bower
of the creamery industry and on this
manufacturers base their hope for
profits and permanence in business.
The made over product sells for les
money dependent upon the fact that
the latter can be turned out without
so much expense. It is the poor man's
butter, wholesome, clean and legiti
mate. It is the deadly rival of oleo
and has practically driven the spurious
article out of the markets of Nebraska.
So the manufacturer will undoubted
ly stamp his made over product in
compliance with law. He will put on
the label and leave the rest to the re
tailer and the boarding house keerer.
When the butter comes up to the
hotel table or the festal board of the
students' club there will be no dis
crimination. Those in authority can
gently and deftly shave off the label If
they feel so disposed.
nut many will ask. "What is process
butter and how is it made?"
Country storekeepers get "slugged"
with butter duringthe summer months.
Farmers bring in the product from all
sides. There is little home demand
and as a result the rural merchant un
loads on the creameries.
Of course the butter comes in at
all seasons of the year but in the win
ter time often the local demand can
not be supplied and it is only in the
summer and fall that the heaviest ex
porting is done.
The creamery man gets the butter
packed in vats or tubs. All grades,
all conditions, all degrees of odor com
bine to form one formidable whole. In
to the refrigerator goes the rank lot
to await the day of bullish market ten
dencies. Then the stale butter Is melted. The
oil Is mixed with milk. Next there is
a process of separation and the butler
is once more cast off in the shape of
small round pellets or llaky crystals
according to the process. Finally the
crystals are pressed into cakes and out
goes the "process butter" labeled with
whatever the creamery man chooses
to put on it. The oleomargarine bill
decrees that "process butter' shall be
plainly stamped on the package.
"Process butter" tastes well. It is
perfectly wholesome. There Is consid
erably more protit to the producer than
by the bona fide cream method. Many
dairymen think that the effect of the
law will be to knock the under pinning
out of prices. Besides the curious, and
they will be legion, are prone to ask
questions and misunderstand.
"Oleomargarine has gradually faded
from the market," said a Lincoln gro
cer to a representative of the Courier,
"People do not like it. Restaurants
seldom serve It any more and we find
it far more profitable to buy from
farmers when we can and make a reg
ular practice of handling creamery
butter. Oleo does not go with our
trade any more.
"Circus companies, traveling gangs
of all kinds and other rough and ready
outfits always have two or three tubs
of butterine along. The spurious article
comes from four to eight cents a pound
cheaper and this is some inducement.
"As a poor man's butter, oleo is a
dismal failure. In the winter time,
when butter is high, sometimes the
poorer classes will look about for but
terine. It is only occasional though and
we're out of the business. Perhaps,
some Lincoln grocery stores still keep
it, but I would not be able to pur
chase it."
The proposed law will have little ef
fect upon the oleo but there will be
a wholesale wiggling in "process but
ter"' circles in case the measure fights
shy of obstructions in the senate.
Then, too. It Is one thing to frame such
a statute and another to enforce it.
db00l titntilation
Several articles have recently ap
peared in the newspapers on school
ventilation. It seems hardly necessary
to write on ventilation in Nebraska,
where we have so much good pure air,
and so easily gotten. Mr. Marian, a
mechanical expert, says it takes one
thousand four hundred and ten cubic
feet of ventilation per hour for each
adult in a school room. We find then
it takes three hundred and seventy
two thousand two hundred and forty
cubic feet of ventilation for a room of
forty-eight pupils during the school
hours. If the writers of these articles
would carefully figure the windows,
doors, and other leakage in the school
room and the ventilation of the chim
ney he will find plenty of ventilation I
think and some to spare. If they will
examine the ventilation chimney of the
steam heated plants they will find the
pipe in which they speak of and find
that they have been abandoned long
ago as they found it was not necessary
to use them. Now do not misunder
stand me and get the idea that I think
fresh air is not needed, for it Is very
important, but I do not believe in pick
ing up every one's idea for an experi
ment. There are so many different
devices now being tried and each one
is to fill some one's pocket, and such
experimentinfi is very expensive to the
tax payers, and in a great many places
they do not get the proper results.
Such has been the case at the Capitol
school where the indirect steam system
is being tried. This plant has not only
been very expensive, but has given
very unsatisfactorily results to the
patrons also.
The Vine street school is also an
other experiment which has been giv
ing a great deal of trouble. As the
writer tells you, the fan system is used
there. It is also a very expensive
plant, consuming about one-third more
fuel than it ought to. The writer of
this is personally acquainted with the
plant, and has a record of over nine
years as a mechanical and electrical
engineer, and will say the hot air sys
tem may be all right if systematized
down to a practical marking point.
But then it will be a very expensive
plant. I will further say I do not be
lieve it is practical to put your heat
in the room at the top, or as near the
top as in cold weather. I have seen
the children sit in the school room
most of the day with their rubbers on
while others getting permission to go
out into a hall over a register to warm
their feet, while their faces would be
plenty warm, the thermometer ranging
from sixty-eight to eighty degrees.
This is what I know to be the fact
during the cold weather. I would fre
quently be asked what kind of heat it
was, where the face would burn and
the feet freeze.
If space would permit me I could go
into the details and explain why the
plant could not have been more eco
nomically run. I claim the plant Is not
properly constructed, and am mechan
ically able to back up my statement,
and to further add to their troubles
they put in a cheap gasoline engine
which has been put in the papers be
fore, but if the principal and secretary
had taken the stand with the janitor
instead of the firm that put the plani
in, the plant would have been fixed
-Arcs -c uaaq 3Auq pmo.w. puts 'oSc Suoi
ing to the tax payers of at least one
quarter or one-third in fuel.
I also know one of these same plants
in Omaha that could only keep seven
rooms out of ten hot during the cold
weather. This I got, from their own
men who seems to be their tracer.
J. H. HOOPER. .
222 North Eighteenth Street.
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tor, the Wash'nt'n monnymint?" asked
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