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purpose of preventing the use of preservatives in milk, the using of poi- 

 sonous coloring matter in butter, and things of that kind? Or do you 

 pay any attention to those phases of the matter? 



Mr. KRACKE. Oh, yes, yes. Just during this past month we received 

 fines amounting to $1,800 for adulterated milk and milk that had pre- 

 servatives in it that is, in New York City alone. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Just one more question. As I understood you, 

 there are 90,000,000 pounds of butter consumed in the city of Few York 

 yearly. One per cent of that amount would be 900,000 pounds? 



Mr. KRACKE. Yes. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. So that the amount of oleomargarine consumed 

 in your State, assuming it to be 200,000 pounds, is less than one-quarter 

 of 1 per cent of the whole amount of butter sold in the city of New York 

 alone? 



Mr. KRACKE. Eight you are. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Now, assuming that there is quite a large amount 

 of butter sold in the State of New York in addition to what there is 

 sold in the city of New York 



Mr. KRACKE. Yes. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST (continuing). Can you figure up what possible 

 effect the small amount of oleomargarine consumed by your State 

 would have upon the farming industry of that State? 



Mr. KRACKE. Well, 1 have not gotten down to figuring just yet. 



Mr. DILLON. Mr. Kracke, is there not some colored oleomargarine 

 which comes into New York from New Jersey and other States, and is 

 sold on the markets there as butter that you do not know about, and 

 that does not enter into the records at all? 



Mr. KRACKE. I have so stated, but that does not amount to very 

 much. 



Mr. DILLON. And, Mr. Kracke, this gentleman speaks of the effect 

 on the New York farmer alone. Is it not true that a good deal of the 

 New York product goes out of the State and out of New York City to 

 find a market where it meets the competition of this colored oleomar- 

 garine, made in imitation of butter, where the States are not so strict 

 in enforcing the laws as you are in New York State? 



Mr. KRACKE. The point is this: Most of the butter made in New 

 York State, especially in the eastern and northeastern sections, goes to 

 the Boston market. Only a very little of it (if I remember correctly, 

 only 200,000 pounds) comes in to 'New York City from New York State. 

 Con sequently 



Mr. KNIGHT. You mean 200,000 packages, do you not? 



Mr. KRACKE. I mean 200,000 packages. Consequently, it is of vital 

 interest to the people the farmers and the dairymen of the State of 

 New York to have a law that will prohibit this fraud all over this 

 country. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. But you have the same law in Massachusetts that 

 you have in New York, have you not? 



Mr. SCHELL. And it is enforced ? 



Mr. KRACKE. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. 



Mr. KNIGHT. Now, I want to ask Mr. Kracke a question. What 

 proportion of the butter which comes to New York City is from the 

 State of New York? You said about 200,000 packages, did you not, 

 out of 2,000,000? 



Mr. KRACKE. Yes. 



Mr. KNIGHT. About 10 per cent. Is that true? 



Mr. KRACKE. Yes 5 a little less than 10 per cent. 



