378 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



3. That we note with great satisfaction the prominent mention of President 

 H. J. Waters of the Kansas State Agricultural College for the position of Secretary 

 of Agriculture in the President's cabinet. By reason of Mr. Waters' long service as 

 the head of Missouri's Agricultural College and member of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, we know him to be a man of broad vision, in thorough sympathy with all 

 agricultural and live stock interests, a strong executive, thoroughly practical and in 

 all most fittingly trained for the leader of American farmers, and we therefore 

 earnestly recommend his appointment by President-elect Woodrow Wilson. 



4. Whereas, The dairy industry has grown in this State until it represents a 

 total income to the farmers of about $20,000,000 per year and is increasing, and with 

 this Increase in volume comes increasing demand for information and help from those 

 engaged in this industry as farmers and creamerymen, and 



Whereas, The Dairy Department of the University has been doing educational 

 work for the dairy interests— writing bulletins, attending farmers' institutes, developing 

 demonstration farms, carrying on co-operative bull experiments, giving definite 

 assistance to those who wish to build silos, etc., and has been of great practical 

 service to creameries and dairymen and to the buttermakers through educational 

 butter-scoring contests, and 



Whereas, We as an association greatly appreciate this work and find that it 

 has been of great benefit to the farmers and creamerymen and feel that the Dairy 

 Department should be permitted to extend its outside activities, as the work done so 

 far is only a small part of what needs to be done ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That we, the State Dairy Association in twenty-third annual meeting 

 assembled, urge the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri to make it 

 possible for the extension activities of the Dairy Department to be enlarged. 



(1) That more men be provided to carry on educational work among dairy 

 farmers. 



(2) That funds be provided to enable the present force of instructors to visit 

 the communities where they are asked to come and to do the work they are asked 

 to do, and that an instructor be sent out to give practical instruction to buttermakers 

 where such instruction is needed and asked for. 



5. Whereas, The Missouri State Dairy Association, in twenty-third annual 

 meeting assembled, at Columbia, Mo., January 16, 1913, representing 40,000 Missouri 

 dairymen and a business amounting to $20,000,000 annually, request respectfully the 

 Missouri members at the Sixty-third Congress to enact some law that will more 

 effectively stop the fraudulent sale of oleomargarine as butter. A law is needed 

 that will fully protect the consuming public and the producing farmer. 



We believe that such protection can be best given by the absolute prohibition 

 of the addition of any artificial coloring matter, or of butterfat, to the beef fat used 

 in the manufacture of oleomargarine. Butter has a natural yellow color that varies 

 with the seasons, and artificial coloring is only added at times to give the market 

 butter a uniform shade. Oleomargarine has no yellow color unless it is put there by 

 ingredients added for this special purpose. The reason for coloring oleomargarine is to 

 imitate butter and make it sell for a near-butter price. We have no objection to 

 oleomargarine when sold on its merits. With the enactment of the above-suggested 

 legislation the present 10-cent tax on colored oleo would be removed. This would 

 make it possible for those wanting oleomargarine to buy it at a much lower price 

 than now. Those preferring butter would be assured of getting what they want, and 

 the producer of butter would be protected from an unfair competition. 



Whereas, The bill now before Congress, known as the Haugen bill, embodies the 

 above suggestion, and that bill known as the Lever bill is unfavorable to the dairy 

 interests in that if enacted it would permit oleomargarine to be sold in imitation of 

 butter ; be it 



Resolved, That the members of this association respectfully ask the members from 

 Missouri of the Sixty-third Congress to give their support to the Ilaugen bill. 



Whereas, The Missouri State Dairy Association represents 40,00o farmers with 

 a business amounting to over $20,000,000 annually and the future of this important 

 business has been endangered by the proposal of a certain bill in Congress known 



