Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — Tests for Butterine. [ARTICLE]

Tests for Butterine.

There is no way of telling“good butterinc, costing at wholesale eighteen cents a pound, from the bad butter at twenty-eight cents a pound, unless the microscope is used. In cheap grades of oleo it is sufficient to put a little on the stove, when the smell of burning tallow will become evident; but good butterine does not betray itself. The experts is to place a bit of fine dairy butter in the palm of one hand along with a piece of the suspected article; if it is not real butter it will not begin to melt until half a minute after the real butter.— Brooklyn Eagle. Germany has 28,000 miles of underground telegraph wires and France 7,200, all in successful operation. Our country is bigger than China. We have 3,002,000 square miles, and China 2,000,000.