PETROLEUM BUTTER.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 433, 24 January 1912, Page 3

PETROLEUM BUTTER.

Petroleum butter! cutting from the New York Sun:—Over in Bayonne when the Standard Oil broke ground for its big butter and lard factory, which is going to cost 60,000 dollars just for the building alone, the sentimental persons knew that the cowJess epoch was at hand. It all came so suddenly on the heels of the horseless age, if that kind of an age has any heels worth mentioning. The Jerseys, the Holsteins, and the commoner garden variety of just cows are chewing their cuds in the meadows; but after January Ist next they will have to get another job—maybe supplying porterhouses every morning for the family. And what is going to become of the milkmaid? She won't lok so pastoral going around with an oil-can. But the Standard Oil is out to put the cow monopoly on the bezique. In a cold-blooded fashion, without a band or decorations or speeches or any kind of a ceremony, the shovels sank into the soil, and the death-knell of Bossy was sounded. Rumours of a process which would get butter and lard from petroleum have been hinted at for some time. Th 9 big concern has spent 300,000 dollars, it was said, to perfect the method. The new structure will have a frontage of 400 ft on East Twentysecond street, Bayonne, and will run back 250 ft. The machinery is on the scene and is now stored in the plant of the Tidewater Oil Company. By the first of the year it is expected the butter and lard will be caught in petroleum just as fishes are caught in the sea.