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That some such step was necessary is evident from the fact that in 
1902, the last fiscal year of the existence of oleomargarine artificially 
colored, there was made in this country 123,180,075 pounds, equal to 
2,053,001 sixty-pound tubs or as much oleomargarine as one thousand 
large creameries turn out the butter. Quoting from the Creamery Patrons' 
Hand Book, "In other words 27 oleomargarine factories turned out oleo- 
margarine equal in quantity to 25 per cent of the butter product of all 
the creameries of the United States. 
That the effect of the unrestrained and fraudulent sale of oleo for 
butter was felt by all, can readily be seen by a perusal of the list of the 
organizations represented in the formation of the National Dairy Union 
from IS different states as follows: 
New York Mercantile Exchange. 
Baltimore Produce Exchange. 
Philadelphia Produce Exchange. 
Chicago Produce Exchange. 
National Grange. 
Patrons of Husbandry Supreme Association. 
Chatauqua Grange. 
New York State Grange. 
Ohio State Grange. 
Indiana State Grange. 
New Jersey State Grange. 
The State Dairy Associations from Illinois, 
Wisconsin, Missouri, Nebraska, New^ York, Indiana and California. 
Illinois State Board of Agriculture. 
New York Department of Agriculture. 
New Jersey Dairy & Fruit Commission. 
Minnesota Dairy and Food Commission. 
Illinois Experimental Station. 
Western Holstein Friesian Association. 
Holstein Friesian Association of North America. 
Jersey Cattle Club. 
Michigan Jersey Cattle Club. 
St. Louis Butter & Cheese Dealers' Association. 
National League of Commission Merchants. 
Chester County Creamery Association. 
Elgin Dairy Association 
St. Louis Dairy Company. 
California Creamery Company, and last, but not least, the National 
Creamery, Butter and Cheese Makers' Association. 
D. W. Wilson, Secretary of the National Dairy Union, in his address 
at the first meeting said, "We need an organization around which the 
dairymen can rally and devise means and ways for their own protection 
from the great fraud that is so prevalent. We must impress upon all 
the people of this country and especially our legislators the importance 
and value of the dairy and the votes that are behind it so that v/hen we 
ask for proper legislation either national or state, we shall have a backing 
that will secure what we demand." 
