UNPLEASANT INSINUATIONS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2437, 28 October 1886, Page 2

UNPLEASANT INSINUATIONS.

At tho meeting in Horticultural Hall, whero Mr Atkinson discussed tho food question from an economical standpoint, Mr. O M Tinkham, Secretary of the Vermont Dairymen's Association, made a statement regarding the origin of some of the imitation butter sold in our markets, substantially as follows

I iiavo a friend living near Boston,-who keeps from six to eight hundred hogs. To feed tliem ho lists the wastes and swill from some of the lari{e lintels m the city. All the meats, fish, flesh, and fowl, eaucos, gravies, and all grouse, are dumped into one tub and carried out to the farm. This was formerly fed to the bogs, but was thought, to bo unhealthful by reason of too much grease, so ho had large tanks mado into which the stuff™ dumped on arrival from tho city, nnd water added, the whole thoroughly steamed and left to cool, which loft a good cake of the groasti on top of the mass when cold. This was taken off and Bold to tho "renderer" in tho city. Tho "renderer" is tho person to whom all the dead hogs that come in on the trains, the dead cattle and horses from tlio street, are sent to be disposed of, Once when my friend km in there he saw, 1 thiuk it w;« fifty tubs, of thity pounds each, now Vermont spurca tubs, and lifting the covers saw they were filled with tliu "neutralgrease," and said he had no doubt some of the grease ho sold was i i those tubs, of which I have no doubt, ai. l that it was hotter than some of the. re it which made up the shipment, tb<e tubs were marked for Bhipment to n nrm in New England who was running a creamery.