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ended July 1, 1902, almost 22,000,000 pounds over the previous year. 

 They made 126.000,000 ]?ounds the last year under the old law; the year 

 before, 104.000.000. They were going ahead at the rate of 25 per cent 

 per year. The 126,000.000 pounds represented more than 25 per cent of 

 all the product of all the creameries in the United States. 



Unless some unforeseen condition arises, I estimate that the produc- 

 tion of oleomargarine for the present fiscal year will not exceed 50,000,000 

 pounds, or a falling off of another 40 per cent. I base this estimate upon 

 the fact that during the first four months of the present fiscal year, viz., 

 July, August. September and October, the make of oleomargarine in the 

 city of Chicago is but 114,398 fifty-pound tubs, compared with 182,090 

 for the first four months of the previous fiscal year — the first under the 

 new law— and 284,764 tubs for the same months of 1901, when the o^d 

 law was in force. This is a falling off from last year of 67,601 tubs it 

 Chicago alone, and upon this basis Chicago producing two fifths of the 

 nation's output) there have been 169,151 tubs, or about 425 cars les.-5 

 oleomargarine made in the United States the first four months of this 

 year than last. Compared with the same months of 1901, the last under 

 the old law, the falling off the past four months has been 451.800 tubs, 

 equaling 1,120 cars, or about 70 per cent, the make for the United States 

 for July, August, September and October of 1901 being 679,800 fifty-pound 

 tubs, and during the past four months 228,000 tubs. That is, the longer 

 we go the less we make. 



PEESEXT LEGAL STATUS. 



Tu*o cases involving the validity of the new law are now in the 

 courts. One, taken up from Cincinnati, will be argued before the Su- 

 preme Court of the United States at Washington November 30th, a week 

 from Monday, the oleomargarine interests having retained to represent 

 them the best legal talent in the country. The other has not yet gone 

 through the lower court. The only court decision which has been handed 

 down in relation to the law to date has upheld its validity. The National 

 Dairy Union is watching both cases in court and, with the support of 

 the dairying public, will see that its interests are properly represented 

 The case which has gone to the supreme court and will be argued next 

 Monday is one fr^om Cincinnati, in which the manufacturer of oleomar 

 garine took highly colored butter, mixed it with oleomargarine and put 

 it out under the quarter cent tax stamp, claiming that under the law, 

 butter being a part of oleomargarine the use of butter, even if colored, 

 in oleomargarine was not artificial coloration. The lower court decided 

 against the oleomargarine manufacturers and they have appealed it to 

 the United States court. This case will be argued by Mr. Guthrie of 

 New York in the supreme court a week from Monday. 



liowever, in the cases in the courts, the government has great 

 incentive to protect our interests. During the first fiscal year under the 

 new law. ended July 1st last, the Government collected from makeis of 

 colored oleomargarine the sum of $272,041.18 for ten cent tax stamps 

 upon the 2.720,440 nounds of artificially colored oleomargarine whir'.i 

 they produced in a legitimate way. They pi^oduced it as artificially 

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