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course. It is not so very expensive to manufacture. Now, 

 these people are shipping more and more of this product, it 

 isn't a carload, it is several carloads that come up here and 

 disappear. There are more than several carloads of white oleo 

 shipped here. The Federal Government seems to be working 

 with the manufacturers instead of the farmers. I think the 

 creameries do not like it any better than the farmers do, when 

 it hits them sharp. You go over here and you will find these 

 stores are selling it to the cheaper boarding houses. Butter 

 making has become a thing of the past in this state. Our busi- 

 ness is selling milk at the present time. When a car of oleo is 

 sold, it crowds out the sale of butter. There is no reason why 

 butter, or butter-fat, should not be worth seventy-five cents, is 

 there, Mr. Bradford? Cows have been falling ofif all over 

 New England. We have ceased to be a beef country. 



Mr. Guptile : However, on general principles I think the 

 creameries would be willing for you to get more for your pro- 

 duct if they could get out of it and make money. 



Mr. Ladd: Do any of your state institutions use oleo? 



Mr. Guptill: Mr. President: I move that we get into 

 communication with the public institutions to see whether they 

 are using oleo or not. 



Mr. Ladd : I would like to ask Mr. Guptill what he has been 

 doing to keep butter in and to keep oleo out ? 



Mr. Guptill: I have told you we have no regulations by 

 which we can interfere unless it is sold as a fraud. 



Mr. Ladd: It seems to me that is something that is up to 

 you as a people. I do not blame those people from sending in 

 their product, it is their business. I do not blame those packers 

 for looking after their own business, but I do blame the farmers 

 in Massachusetts and in Maine and everywhere for allowing 

 themselves to be crowded to the wall. This is my stand as a 

 farmer; I am one of you. 



On motion of Mr. Adams, it was voted, that the executive 

 committee of the Maine Dairymen's Association investigate the 

 oleo situation of Maine and take necessary measures to have 

 the old laws strengthened and new laws enacted. 



Mr. Adams: I have been informed since I came into the 

 hall, that there is a gentleman present to whom we owe a great 



