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Title: The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: McGovern, John. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Chicago, Union pub. house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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$600 a year, and a wholesale tax of$480, with a tax of two cents a pound on all the productmanufactured. Retailers pay $48 more, yearly. Are there any State regulations ? Yes. In some of the Pacific States the keepers of inns andboarding-houses must place before each guest a card bearing adefinite notification that the stuff set before him is sham butter,and the chemical ingredients must be separately stated. Is there any other adulteration ? Yes. Cocoa is used. In 1895, there was established atChicago, a factory for the manufacture of butter and lard forhousehold use from cocoa-nut oil. Ceylon produces cocoa-nutsin enormous quantities, and the oil or butter is shipped toAmerica at the rate of twenty-five million pounds a year, forthe use of soap and candle-makers. But an inventor namedCampbell found a new use for it. Describe a cocoa-butter factory and its output ? The pipes or barrels of cocoa-butter are carried to the topfloor, which is heated to one hundred and thirty degrees. The
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BUTTER, CHEESE, ETC. 145 butter in the barrels turns into oil. It is then poured intocauldrons which are jacketed with hot water, like oatmealchokers. Into the cauldrons, mixing with the oil, the inventorputs a secret solution, which kills the fermenting germs of theoil. The oil next goes down-stairs and is mixed with water.The secret solution unites with the water and leaves oil. Thena centrifugal machine or cream-separator, making four thousandrevolutions a minute, throws away the water and the solution.It is now stock, ready for use. What is done with it ? If it goes into immediate use, it is poured on top of water intin vats. Into the water a cold air blast is injected with greatforce, and this churns the oil into granulated white butter. Itgoes to a store-room, where it ripens, somewhat like cheese,developing acids that are desired. It may now be mixed withcreamery butter, exactly as at the butterine factory. Thecapacity of this factory is twenty thousand pounds daily.Without mix

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