370 OLEOMARGARINE. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Now, do you know anything about the amount of 

 butter that there is consumed in the State of New York? 



Mr. KRACKE. I could tell you more particularly as to the amount of 

 butter that is consumed in the city of New York. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Very well; what is that! 



Mr. KRACKE. There was consumed last year in the city of New York 

 a little over $18,000,000 worth. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. And that would represent how many pounds'? 



Mr. KRACKE. Twenty cents a pound. 



Mr. KNIGHT. About 110,000,000 pounds, then. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. I make it 90,000,000 pounds. 



Mr. KNIGHT. No; 110,000,000 pounds. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Why, you say there is $18,000,000 worth sold? 



Mr. KRACKE. About $18,000,000 worth. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Then that would be 90,000,000 pounds of butter 

 consumed in the city of New York last year? 



Mr. KRACKE. About, as I remember it. 



Mr. KNIGHT. That is in Greater New York? 



Mr. KRACKE. Yes. 



Mr. ADAMS. Mr. Kracke, I would like to ask you a question. I 

 understand that you have spent a very large portion of an appropriation 

 of $140,000 a year in enforcing the dairy laws of New York with reference 

 to the sale of oleomargarine. Would it be necessary to expend that 

 amount which you now expend, or any considerable portion of it. if 

 oleomargarine were made under its own color, and not colored in imita- 

 tion of butter? 



Mr. KRACKE. It certainly would not. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. But it would if it were sold for butter. As 1 

 understand, colored oleomargarine can not be sold in New York at all, 

 except in violation of the law. 



Mr. KRACKE. That is correct. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. So that if oleomargarine should continue to be 

 sold as butter it would be sold colored, and you would have the same 

 difficulty in enforcing the law then that you have now, would you not? 



Mr. KRACKE. I do not catch your question. In the event that this 

 law is passed, you say 



Mr. TILUNGHAST. If this bill goes into effect, we will say, the cost 

 of oleomargarine would be enhanced? 



Mr. KRACKE. Yes, sir. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. But even at the enhanced price it would still be 

 able to compete with butter, would it not ? 



Mr. KRACKE. At certain times of the year it would; yes. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. And therefore there would be the same tempta- 

 tion then to sell it for butter there is now? 



Mr. KRACKE. Well, not quite. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Not quite; but there would be some temptation? 



Mr. KRACKE. Because putting an additional tax of 8 cents per pound 

 on it would take away quite a good deal of the profit on it. 



Mr. SCHELL. Do we understand you to say that the entire annual 

 appropriation for your department is $140,000? 



Mr. KRACKE. No. 



Mr. SCHELL. What is the entire appropriation? 



Mr. KRACKE. The entire appropriation will run up to between three 

 and four hundred thousand dollars. 



Mr. SCHELL. Now, what per cent of this $140,000 that is appro- 

 priated for the particular enforcement of the dairy laws is used for the 



