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fused a certificate of export, and it was the most villainous compound of 

 rancid butter and fish oil I ever got into my mouth. 



In addition to that, the dairy division of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment has to inspect all renovated butter factories so it will be certain 

 that nothing but pure, wholesome raw material goes into the renovated 

 butter. 



More than that, the Internal Revenue Department cares for nothing 

 but revenue. When the revenue has been paid on a lot of renovated 

 butter the Treasury Department is satisfied. The Agricultural Depart- 

 ment goes further; asks if it is sold honestly; is it put upon tne market 

 with labels that will show what it is? The wholesale markets of the 

 country have to be inspected to see that renovated butter is properly 

 handled. I am glad to say that the Agricultural and Dairy Department 

 work hand and hand in this matter on inspection, and each depart- 

 ment reports to the other anything they find illegal, so the work of 

 both departments is made more effective by the interchange of work 

 and exchange of courtesies. Renovated butter in order to be sold has 

 to have the stamp on the top of the box, and also the words "Renovated 

 Butter" must be indented into the butter itself, and if it is printed the 

 words renovated butter must be indented into each print, and the wrap- 

 per around each print must have the word renovated butter, and it 

 must be free of anything of a deceptive character. There is now a 

 corps of dairy inspectors throughout the United States co-operating 

 with the Internal Revenue Department in promoting an honest sale of 

 renovated butter. This product amounts to 54J-4 million pounds a year. 

 During the first year that the law was in effect the increase over the 

 previous year was purely a matter of estimate, because complete sta- 

 tistics could not be obtained, but as near as we could get at it, the in- 

 crease in the manufacture is about nine per cent., showing that the 

 product can be honestly sold and can be sold in a way that con- 

 sumers will take it, and there has been an increase in the sale. Reno- 

 vated butter honestly sold is a legitimate product. It has been at 

 some time the honest outcome of cows' milk, and is honestly different 

 from oleomargarine, which never was butter, was never intended to be 

 butter, but was from the first a fraudulent article. Renovated butter is 

 really butter and the process of renovation is an honest one. The 

 dealers object to the word "renovated;" they wanted it purified or clari- 

 fied or anything else. Seems to me renovated is a pretty good kind of 

 a word. If we say a man is renovated it means he is a better man, and 

 it is a compliment to pay him; but the word "renovated" in connection 

 with trade creates an impression that its previous history was not at all 

 wholesome, but under a proper name and devoted to a proper use it is 

 not to be condemned. In a great many stores they keep two kinds of 

 butter, the first quality and a second quality. The first quality is the 

 best creamery butter, the second quality depends upon the under- 

 standing of a second quality of butter; in most stores in Vermont it is 

 poor butter; in some of the larger manufacturing towns in New Eng- 



