SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 335 



tbat was that the price during this year was from three to five cents 

 higher than tlie year before and that with the greatest effort on the part 

 of the manufactures to place their product on the market, they only made 

 an increase of about four percent. I will only dwell upon conditions as 

 they are at the present time. 



Those of you who have watched the returns from the internal reve- 

 nue department know there has been a wonderful increase in the output 

 in the last two months. We have not as yet received figures showing 

 the out put for the month of September, but for the month of August I 

 will say that the increase in the colored product was over 300 per cent 

 over a year ago, and an increase in uncolored of 50 per cent. If it 

 were not for this large consumptive demand we are having this would 

 be an alarming feature, but it does not necessarily follow because this 

 large amount of oleomargarine has been made that it has gone into con- 

 sumptive channels. The fact is we have been led to believe that it has not 

 gone into consumptive channels. The fact that the Chicago district foi* 

 September failed to keep up its ratio by 40 per cent indicates to us that 

 the large output has not gone into consumptive channels, although there 

 is no question but that in time it will. 



I did not get an opportunity to talk to the people of Iowa in the 

 national convention as I have years before in regard to this, and you 

 will bear with me just a minute longer on the oleomargarine situa- 

 tion, because I feel it is something that we owe to you that you under- 

 stand the matter thoroughly. I want to say that so far as any legis- 

 lation is concerned we have no evidence at the present time that any- 

 thing is going to be done. We have this assurance though, that 

 whatever is going to be done in the future, and there is no question 

 but what we will have to meet them again in some kind of a struggle, 

 will be in the line of preventing the coloring of butter. I simply give 

 that as being the most plausible thing to do and, in fact, is something 

 now under contemplation by them. The last lawsuit has been decided 

 in favor of the dairymen. I want to say that so far as our law is con- 

 cerned it is affording all the protection to the dairymen that we could 

 reasonably expect. There is no question about its validity and for 

 that reason we must look for a struggle in some other direction. I 

 want to say that, unfortunately for us, one of the chief officers of our 

 agricultural department today (I do not want to say that he has allied 

 himself with the oleomargarine forces, because I do not like to accuse 

 a man wrongfully when I am not sure) but one of the chief officers 

 of the agricultural department is aggressive in his efforts in trying 

 to prevent the coloring of butter. You understand what it would mean 

 to the dairy interests of this state if this were accomplished. Backed 

 by this and other information that we have, we know there will be 

 something of the kind undertaken this winter. I will now leave this 

 subject. 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, I come to a question which is rather 

 delicate; it is a question which I wish I knew how to handle intelli- 

 gently and to handle it right. Iowa stands today, as was referred to a 

 short time ago by Mr. Nietert, as one of the greatest butter produc- 



