BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 231 



niereial bodies and iiidi vidiuil exporters. So far as this office is aware, 

 no objection to it has l)oon niad(\ 



Legishition by whieli tlie Department shall be given supervision of 

 oleomargarine and filled (Oieese, when offered for export, and perhaps 

 also of the movement of these commodities in interstate commerce, 

 after having been taxed and stamped under the regulations of the 

 Treasury Department, seems advisable. These are food products, 

 mainly of animal origin, and the duty of seeing that they maintain 

 their true character when entering interstate and foreign commerce 

 may properlj^ be placed upon this Department. It is easily under- 

 stood that the spirit of the oleomargarine and filled cheese laws requires 

 something more than their administration simply as revenue meas- 

 ures; and it is evident that the interests of consumers and producers 

 of pure dairy i3roducts, and their imitations, and of honest dealers in 

 all, would be greatly conserved by giving the Department authority 

 to j)revent one from being substituted for the other, and to compel all 

 to be sold under their true names and free from deception on the 

 part of those who handle them. 



