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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



manufacturers had told him that they were going to push the repeal or 

 modification of that law. That is my authority. He told me when I was in 

 Washington. I went down there four weeks ago to look after this matter 

 and he told me they had come to him and notified him in an endeavor to get 

 the Secretary of Agriculture to change his attitude on the oleomargarine 

 question, in order that they might get a modification of the law, get the tax 

 reduced from ten cents to four cents, using as an argument that the four 

 cent tax on colored oleomargarine would have no efifect at all in diminishing 

 the output of the article, that they could pay the tax and it would mean 

 millions of dollars to the Government of the United States, at a time, when 

 the Government is having a hard time raising revenue. 



Veranda of the Woman's Building, Iowa State Fair Grounds. 



