122 FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



Mr. Adams : Butter inspection will last as long as pork inspection. 



Mr. P. D. Lerit;h, of Utica : Let ns not get excited over this subject. We 

 sell the material for either butter or oleomargarine. Oleomargarine may not 

 be as gool as some butters, but it certainly never got as low as the 2^ cent 

 article. We must fight oleomargarine, not with laws but with better butter. 

 These manufacturers make a large market for our suet and make it good and 

 valuable. We need not be afraid of the competition of their product if our 

 butter is good enough. The best butter brings 30 cents a pound to-day in spite 

 ■of butterine. Many farmers fearing they will lose a little cream leave it on 

 the milk till almost rotten and then try to counteract this by poisoning it with 

 salt. 



Mr Wm. Graham: When we remember that we have 55,000,000 people and 

 13,000,000 milch cattle we will find that there is not enough butter to go round. 

 There was a demand for more good butter and oleomargarine supplied this 

 demand. To-day the best butters bring 30 cents per pound. It is not every 

 one who can afford this price. When butter was 40 cents per pound I have 

 •seen those who could not afford that price buy lard» at 7 to 14 cents per pound, 

 and use that instead of butter. While talking about inspection and govern- 

 ment stamps, wliat stamps would you put on much farmers' butter that is only 

 fit for axle grease? We are a free people and have a right to buy a cheaper 

 article when it is good. It is not the best butter makers that are complaining; 

 many butter makers get 40 cents per pound for all their butter. 



Prof. Carpenter: I think farmers have a right to complain. The Lansing 

 butterine works went into business as a creamery establishment and made 5,000 

 or 6,000 pounds of butter per day and sold at 25 cents till detected. They fur- 

 jiished me with "pure butter" for upwards of a year before I discovered that 

 I had been eating oleomargarine or butterine instead. I did not know the 

 difference, yet didn't like to be imposed upon. Farmers may demand that 

 butterine .<hall be sold under its own name. 



Mr. Yates : Li Chicago Mr. Armour proved that the premium Iowa creamery 

 butter was made of his butterine. 



Kev. I. P. Donelson: Mr. Graham is a grower of Shorthorns and admits 

 that his Shorthorns are not equal to the occasion in the demand for butter, 

 and so he is anxious to boom a market for Shorthorn fat. The true solution 

 is, as said, partly in the production of better butter and more of it, and this 

 will be done by raising more cows and the establishment of creameries. We 

 must raise more Jersevs and fewer Shorthorns. 



lion. J. II. Holman : Last April 1st my landlord at Lansing passed off butter- 

 ine on me and I di.ln't know it. Some one said if you make good butter you will 

 increase the demand. This is wrond end to. The demand makes the supply. 

 You talk of insi)ection. You stamp the pail, but the dealer destroys the stamp, 

 and then what? The innocent user is defrauded. In New York they found the 

 only remedy to be complete prohibition of the manufacture and sale. Any- 

 thmg short of this leaves innocent people, boarders, laborers in lumber camps, 

 €tc., to eat butterine. I can't afford 35 cent butter. What I want is better and 

 cheaper pure butter. 



