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Mr. PIRRUNG. Yes, sir; the Bureau of Chemistry of the Agricultural 

 Department does that for them. 



Mr. KNIGHT. How many factories are there in the United States ? 



Mr. PIRRUNG. I think about twenty -five or thirty. 



Mr. KNIGHT. And about how many inspections do they make of 

 the products you turn out? 



Mr. PIRRUNG. I can not state for other manufacturers, but perhaps 

 they come to us five or six times a year. They do not only require 

 samples from the factories for the inspection. They go all over the 

 United States, or States where our product or any other manufactured 

 product is sold, and take up samples unknown to us. 



Mr. KNIGHT. Do they analyze them? 



Mr. PIRRUNG. Yes. 



Mr. KNIGHT. That is done among the retailers? 



Mr. PIRRUNG. Yes; I presume so, and among wholesalers as well. 



Mr. KNIGHT. There are about 10,000 retailers in the country, 

 according to the last report. 



Mr. PIRRUNG. I do not know. You are better posted on that than 

 1 am. 



Mr. KNIGHT. What is the penalty if anything is found in your prod- 

 uct that is not wholesome ? 



Mr. PIRRUNG. I have always understood the Government would be 

 compelled to close up our factory. 



Mr. KNIGHT. You are not acquainted with the law very well, then, 

 are you ? 



Mr. PIRRUNG. I thought 1 was. 



Mr. CLARK. They would not only close it up, but would confiscate it. 



Mr. KNIGHT. They would confiscate the goods that they find? 



Mr. PIRRUNG. They will close up our factory. If you will read the 

 law, you will post yourself. 



Senator HEITFELD. What are the restrictions on the sale of oleo- 

 margarine in the District of Columbia? 



Mr. KNIGHT. I can not answer as to the District of Columbia, Mr. 

 Heitfeld. 



Senator HEITFELD. When you have time, I wish you would look 

 that up. 



Mr. KNIGHT. They are not the same as they are in the States. 



Senator HEITFELD. I find that at the Center Market here they sell 

 a good deal of it. I also found, after carefully looking over the ground, 

 that they were selling butter at one side of the stand and butterine at 

 the other side, and there was a sign above the stand saying "Butter- 

 ine. " I could not see anything on the product itself that showed that 

 it was butterine, except that it was piled in each case on boxes, and 

 the boxes had the revenue stamp on them, and there was paper lying 

 on the counter which had the stamp " Oleomargarine " across it. I 

 was very much interested in the matter, and I found that they had 

 butterine on one side of the stand and butter on the other side. I did 

 not know whether there was any law that compelled them to keep it 

 separate from the butter product, but I did not see any case of but- 

 terine being sold on the butter side of the stand. I asked one of the 

 salesmen there whether this was the common way of doing this, and 

 he said it was. I said to him, u Now, there is not a thing that tells me 

 this is butterine except the fact that I see it above there, and I might 

 not look up there. Do you tell anybody you are welling butterine 



