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Mr. JELKE. Well, you know how it is packed or put up, do you 9 

 I refer to process butter, renovated butter. 

 Mr. DRENNAN. Yes. We have handled it in years gone by; but 



Mr. JELKE. It is put up in these same square prints and round prints, 

 just the same as creamery butter? 



Mr. DRENNAN. Yes. 



Mr. JELKE. And dairy butter? 



Mr. DRENNAN. Yes, sir. I suppose every man here knows what 

 renovated butter is. In the course of my business I have sold millions 

 of dollars' worth of this dairy butter real butter, put up in tubs, 

 re washed, and repacked. We have sold it for what it was. We have 

 sold it for dairy butter, sold it for ladle butter, and all that sort of 

 thing. We have sold carloads of it every week. Now, then, the dif- 

 ference between that and process butter is that they simply take that 

 raw material and render it and take out a great deal of filth, although 

 you understand I do not handle it, and I am not speaking for it myself. 

 Our law in Pennsylvania compels them to stamp it for what it is; but 

 it is a much better product than it originally was. Still, I do not han- 

 dle it. 



Mr. JELKE. The process removes the filth in the butter? 



Mr. DRENNAN. Yes, sir. I do not know of anything under heaven 

 that has more of it than common butter the ordinary roll butter, 

 such as is not made in the creameries. I think it is filthy. 



Mr. EDSON. Mr. Drennan, you do not wish to convey the impres- 

 sion that all dairy butter has the rancidity of which you speak? 



Mr. DRENNAN. Oh, no. You will allow me to qualify that. There 

 is a gentleman here from Chester County who makes butter in such 

 a way that the finest product in the world could not be made an}^ 

 finer, and there is no finer product than dairy butter. I am speaking 

 simply of the butter that is brought by the average country farmer 

 throughout the West to the store and traded off for goods. It gets 

 rancid. Some of it is dirty; some of it is clean. 



Mr. KAUFFMAN. Now, Mr. Chairman, these gentlemen are but a few 

 of those who are here. I think I can safely say of the wholesale 

 dealers here that they represent three-fourths of the wholesale butter 

 trade of the city of Philadelphia; and they, of course, will indorse 

 what these two gentlemen have said as their views in relation to the 

 Grout bill as affecting the wholesale trade. 



Now, I have one more speaker to introduce. That is Mr. Thomas 

 Sharpless. He is a farmer, a dairyman not a creamery man, but a 

 farmer and he will talk to you, if you will permit him, from the 

 standpoint of a farmer. 



STATEMENT OF THOMAS SHARPLESS, ESQ., OF CHESTER 



COUNTY, PA. 



Mr. SHARPLESS. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, my profession in 

 life does not lead me to be a public speaker, but this is a question 

 which affects me and all us farmers very nearly. 



I live in Chester County, Pa. Chester and Delaware counties are 

 given up, body and soul, to the keeping of cows for the making of 

 butter and the production of milk. We think it is an outrage that we 



