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preventing adulteration will have our hearty support. There is too 

 little attention given to legislating against adulterations; and had half 

 the energy which has been expended in getting an unfair discrimina- 

 tion between these two products been expended in the interest of the 

 suppression of adulteration of every product that goes on the table, 

 the country would have been benefited to a much larger extent. 



Now, as to the difference in these two products. The material differ- 

 ence is in the manufacture and price only. 



As to the manufacture of oleomargarine, I will simply refer the 

 committee to the testimony of Mr. Hobbs, on page 138, I think, of his 

 testimony before the House committee, in which be followed it through 

 from the beginning to end, and commended it. He said in his testi- 

 timony, at some point, that since he has fully investigated it he uses 

 the product on his own table in preference to butter. I also refer you, 

 gentlemen, to the testimony of Commissioner Wilson, at the bottom of 

 pages 170, 171, and 184 of the House hearings. I do not turn to these 

 places and read them, because I do not want to encroach upon the 

 time of the committee; but I want the places distinctly noted, so that 

 the committee may fully investigate if they wish. 



And I want to add a statement here from the rigid regulations of the 

 Ohio Butterine Company. Everything there is conducted on the same 

 scrupulously clean plan referred to by Mr. Hobbs. But another detail 

 might be mentioned. The entire force they employ none but men in 

 the factory have ,their bathrooms and dressing rooms, and before 

 they go into the factory proper they are compelled to don white duck 

 suits and wooden shoes and pass before an inspector; and cleanliness 

 is considered the very first law of the factory. 



Again, the factories must be ready at all times for Government 

 inspection. The local people, it will perhaps be claimed, could be pro- 

 vided against. They would know them, and perhaps would know of 

 their coming. Fellow-citizens of the same town are not apt to take 

 undue advantages, possiby; but the Government, the revenue officers, 

 have their secret agents who go about from time to time, and the manu- 

 facturers know not the day nor the hour when they are going to appear. 

 They must be ready at all times. And so far as I am acquainted with 

 any factories, they are ready at all times; and on behalf of our Cincin- 

 nati factory, and on behalf of the Jacob Bold Packing Company, and 

 on behalf of the Union Dairy Company, I extend to any and every 

 member of the committee, or anyone, an invitation to come at anytime, 

 and they will be shown through the factory, and shown that every- 

 thing which has been said in favor of the cleanliness and godliness of 

 the factories is observed. 



Now, as to color, there really is a difference. Both of these products 

 are colored. They have to be colored in order to be marketable com- 

 modities to-day. There is, however, a difference in the coloring matter 

 used. The large creameries and prominent dairymen, of course, use a 

 harmless color. The oleomargarine factories are compelled to do so. 

 Not only is it their desire, but if they were to use anything else it would 

 subject them to heavy penalties under the United States laws. I think 

 that in a case of using any substance deleterious to health there is pro- 

 vided a confiscation as well as a fine. 



Senator FOSTER. Do they color creamery butter at all times of the 

 year? 



Mr. SCHELL. I will not say, absolutely, at all times; but my 



Senator FOSTER. When they are making the most of the butter, 

 along in the summer time, May, June, and July, do they color it? 



