CIS Seventeenth Annual Report of the 



the interest of this commodity, the dairymen are desiring legisla- 

 tion which will give them a monopoly that the producers of this 

 oleaginous substance arc themselves endeavoring to obtain, not 

 by putting their commodity out under its own guise, but by put- 

 ting it out under a guise that can be ultimately used under the 

 name of a commodity whose monopoly they pretend to fear. 



Your honorable body Inst winter amended the Agricultural 

 Law by providing that no coloring matter should be given away 

 with oleomargarine sold upon the markets of this state, nor should 

 it be made; or sold under any brand, device or label bearing words 

 indicative of cows or the product of the dairy or the names of 

 breeds of cows or cattle, nor use terms indicative of processes in 

 the dairy in making or preparing butter. As a ride, this amend- 

 ment is being observed in the lei lor, but very often violated in the 

 spirit. For instance, no such words will appear under the brand, 

 label or device that is upon the goods themselves, but a large 

 placard will be hung out in front of a store, upon which will 

 appear such words as: "Try Moxley's Holstein Butterine." 



After the passage of this act a circular letter was issued from 

 this office under date of June 7, L909 3 which read as follows: 



State of New York 

 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 [seal] Raymond A. Pearson, Commissioner. 



George L. Flanders, First Issistant Commissioner. 



Albany, N. Y., June 7, 1909. 

 To Whom li May Concern: 



Attention is hereby called to the fact that the Legislature of 1909 amended 

 sections forty and forty-one of chapter nine of the Laws of 19011, known as 

 Agricultural Law, by enactment known as chapter 357 of tin- Laws of 1909. 

 The seel inns amended have reference to oleomargarine. 



Before amendment, the law prohibited the manufacture, sale or use of 

 oleomargarine in imitation or semblance of butter, the product of t lie dairy, 

 within this State, except that it did not prohibit llio use of such substances 

 in one's own family by the members thereof, but it could not be used as food 

 for other- than the members of the family, for which a compensation of 

 any kind was received. 



It will thus be seen thai the prohibition did not run against oleomar- 

 garine, excepl thai which was in imitation or semblance of butter, leaving 

 the sale of all oilier oleomargarine unprohibited and unrestricted. 



