Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1910 — ADD WATER TO HR [ARTICLE]

ADD WATER TO HR

Emulsion Invented by Which Two Pounds May Be Manufactured from One). - 1 -i -> is difucult of DETE CTION. I ' Takes an Expert to Locate the Adulteration—A Boom for Downtrodden Farmer. Dr. S. J. Cfumbine, secretary of the state board of health, and some of the pure food Inspectors have unearthed a new scheme whereby the down-trod-den farmer can double his money on butter, a Topeka (Kans.) correspondent of the Kansas City Tlibes Bays. A Kansas City firm Is selling a preparation that makes It possible to add 100 per cent of water to butter and still make such good butter that only experts can tell that it la watered stock. A pound of real butter, a pound of ordinary water and ten drops of this emulsion churned together make twd pounds of -butter. The emulsion appears something like glue. It Is sticky and rather thick, but transparent. It is harmless and has no deleterious effect except to add to the weight of the butter. Four ounces of the emulsion cost a quarter. A pound of butter in Topeka is worth 30 to 35 cents. A pound of water purchased from a distilling plant might cost 2 mills. The housewife who has all sorts of trouble making her allowances go a week could invest half a dollar In the crockery churn, put in a pound of butter, a pound of water and ten drops of this emulsion and produce 70 cents’ worth of butter. Any woman with a churn and the emulsion can cut her butter bills in two. Any one who knows how to work a churn can do this. The farmer who cannot raise enough cows and hogs and grain to buy a "motor car would not have much trouble doubling his income from the butter." "With ten pounds of water that did not cost a cent he could produce twenty pounds of butter. The firm that Is making the emulsion Is making the best play to the hotels. They show the hotel manager how the butter bills can be reduced fully one-half by the investment of a dollar. What Is more, the firm. Is able to prove Its contention. - -The wife of one of the Inspectors took some of the emulsion purchased by her husband, a pound of butter and a pound of water and turned out two pounds of butter recently. Samples were sent to half a dozen persona who are supposed to know first class butter and every one of them pronounced the watered butter to be extra high class. The emulsion makes It possible to whip water Into the butter and also makes it Impossible of detection except by an expert.