XXII OLEOMARGARINE AND OTHER IMITATION DAIRY PRODUCTS. 



fore, the argument that oleomargarine in any material sense controls the price of 

 butter is not justified by the facts. 



The manufacture and sale of oleomargarine have in no way depreciated the price 

 of butter, as more butter is being sold at higher price in this country than ever 

 before, as shown by testimony. 



It is a suggestive fact that those sections of our country which are most exclusively 

 devoted to the "dairy interests are blessed with the greatest prosperity, as brought 

 out in the testimony of ex-Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, before our committee, 

 who said that a few years ago land was worth only $15 an acre in that State, but as 

 the State began to be devoted more exclusively to the dairy interests land had rapidly 

 appreciated in price, and that farmers had gotten out of debt, had paid their mort- 

 gages, and the land is now worth the sum of $80 per acre, this price averaging much 

 higher than agricultural lands in other parts of the country. 



In conclusion the members of the Committee on Agriculture who have joined in 

 this minority report beg to assure the House and the country in the most solemn 

 manner possible that it has been their earnest intention, and is now their determina- 

 tion, to do everything possible to be done to enforce the sale of oleomargarine as oleo- 

 margarine and to prevent its sale as butter. To prevent fraud and not to stamp out 

 an industry has been and is our purpose. We believe that it ought to be the sole 

 purpose of all legislation and the sole motive of all just men. 



J. W. WADSWORTH. 



WM. LORIMER. 



W. J. BAILEY. 



G. H. WHITE. 



JOHN S. WILLIAMS. 



J. WM. STOKES. 



H. D. ALLEN. 

 Mr. W. E. Miller said: 



At this juncture we would like to introduce as evidence an article from Experiment 

 Station Record, United States Department of Agriculture, on the nutritive value of 

 oleomargarine : 



"THE NUTRITIVE VALUE OF MARGARIN COMPARED WITH BUTTER. E. Bertarelli (RlV. 



Ig. eSan. Pubb., 9 (1898), Nos. 14, pp. 538-545; 15, pp. 570-579}. Three experiments 

 with healthy men are reported in which the value of margarin and butter was tested 

 when consumed as part of a simple mixed diet. In one experiment the value of a 

 mixture of olive oil and colza oil, which is commonly used in Italy in the neighbor- 

 hood of Turin, was also tested. The author himself was the subject of one of the 

 tests. He was 24 years old. The subjects of the other tests were two laboratory 

 servants, one 27 years old, the other 32 years old. The coefficients of digestibility 

 and the balance of income and outgo of nitrogen in the different experiments were as 

 follows: 



Digestion experiments with margarin, butter, and oil. 



