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OLEOM AEG AKIN E. 



Twenty cents is but 5 per cent the one-twentieth part of the $4 

 claimed by the president of the National Live Stock Association. 

 Twenty cents represents the value of about an average of five pounds 

 in the live weight of an animal sold for slaughter, while the $4 claimed 

 would represent about one hundred pounds of live weight. 



As showing that the sentiments expressed by the National Live 

 Stock Association do not represent the sentiments of the majority of 

 the people in the States in which the cattle are owned, I desire to call 

 attention to the number of head of cattle in each State as shown on 

 page 95 of the published report of the hearing of this matter before 

 the House committee. 



Mr. John 0. McCoy, in his argument before the committee, gives the 

 number of head of cattle in each State, and for convenience I have 

 arranged them in two classes, as follows : 



Number of cattle in States having laws prohibiting the sale of oleo- 

 margarine colored yellow : 



Alabama 511,080 



California 913,753 



Colorado 1,115,421 



Connecticut 210, 717 



Delaware 58,035 



Georgia 666, 147 



Illinois 2,324,254 



Iowa 3,442,012 



Kentucky 539,449 



Maine 316,537 



Maryland 257,435 



Massachusetts 254, 967 



Minnesota 1, 237, 003 



Missouri 2,047,346 



Nebraska 2,206,792 



New Hampshire 214, 678 



New Jersey 263,157 



New York 2,059,715 



North Dakota 431, 371 



Ohio 1,455,558 



Oregon 637, 433 



Pennsylvania 1, 494, 126 



South Carolina 260,223 



South Dakota 879,200 



Tennessee 526, 235 



Utah 336,076 



Vermont 401,336 



Virginia 567, 488 



Washington 390,444 



West Virginia 408,198 



Wisconsin 1, 598, 529 



Michigan 801,818 



Total 28,825,933 



Number of cattle in States and Territories not having laws prohibiting the sale of oleomar- 

 garine colored yellow. 



Arkansas 419,422 



Arizona 381,861 



Florida 412,820 



Idaho 397,928 



Indiana 1,234,930 



Kansas 2,867,224 



Louisiana 294, 961 



Mississippi 517,809 



Montana 959,808 



Nevada 238,081 



New Mexico 679,359 



North Carolina 518, 141 



Oklahoma 323,971 



Rhode Island 35, 405 



Texas 5, 046, 335 



Wyoming 747,826 



Total 15,065,881 



It seems to me it is fair to presume that, in the 32 States in which 

 laws have been enacted prohibiting the sale of oleomargarine colored 

 yellow, the sentiment of a considerable majority of the people of each 

 of those States is in opposition to the fraudulent sale of oleomargarine 

 as and for butter, and in favor of the passage of the Grout bill. Of 

 the 43,891,814 head of cattle owned in the United States, 28,825,933, or 

 more than 65 per cent, are owned in States where laws have been en- 

 acted to prevent the fraudulent sale of oleomargarine. 



There seems to be an impression here that you can separate the live- 

 stock interest into two classes, as it were, men who raise live stock for 

 selling purposes and men who are engaged in the dairying business 

 that is, that the men engaged in the dairy business have no interest in 

 live-stock matters. This is not for a moment true. A man engaged in 

 dairying raises the calves the same as the man engaged only in live- 

 stock raising. Those calves go to market for slaughter, and further- 



