403 Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



No. dealers. No. pounds. 



Indiana 3" C 3,923.228 



Indian Territory 21 152, 278 



Kansas 186 1.058,544 



Louisiana 140 1,013,502 



Michigan 109 2,092,521 



Mississippi IT 104,622 



Montana 446,022 



Nevada 625 



New Mexico 12 115, 850 



North Carolina 9 110. 224 



Olilahoma 10 117,398 



Rhode Island 333 3,594,984 



Texas 162 1,518,264 



Wyoming 5 39, 547 



Total 1.501 16,800,142 



This shows that the quantity sold in New York was a little 

 more than one-fourth of one per cent, of the quantity sold in the 

 United States. I hardly care to comment on just what is being 

 done in some of the other states to enforce their anti-color oleo- 

 margarine laws, but in New York it is enforced. Not a pound is 

 made within this State and Very little sold. What is sold is done 

 under inducements offered by peripatetic agents. We are, how- 

 ever, catching them and punishing them. 



What legislation is needed to stop the sale of oleomargarine entirely? 



Mr. Flanders. — The first national legislation that is wanted is 

 a law that will provide against the falsely branding or marking of 

 dairy or food products as to the State or territory in which they 

 are made. This will stop such marking as to interstate commerce 

 goods and then the State itself can take care of internal matters. 

 There should also be an act passed providing that when any 

 dairy or food products are transported from one State into 

 another they shall immediately upon entry become subject to the 

 laws of the State, irrespective of the form or package in which 

 they are done up. This would fix it so that there would be no 

 question about enforcing such laws against the original importers' 

 packages, and then after this legislation, if Congress would raise 



