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Mr. JELKE. Did Mr. Blackburn go to Cincinnati! 



Mr. KNIGHT. No, sir; be did not. 



A VOICE. Would it not be well to state to the committee that this 

 Mr. Brundage is a broker in pure butter? 



Mr. KNIGHT. All of these people are dealers in pure .butter all 

 kinds of butter. 



A VOICE. In fact, more process butter than pure butter. 



Mr. KNIGHT. I do not know how much process butter, or how much 

 dairy butter, or how much ladle butter, or how much imitation ladle 

 butter. 



A VOICE. Anyone who knows anything about Mr. Brundage knows 

 he is a process-butter man. 



Mr. KNIGHT. I do not think so. 



A VOICE. He sells more process butter than he does pure butter, I 

 think. 



Mr. KNIGHT. If he sells it legally, I can not see the objection. You 

 do not claim he sells it illegally ? 



A VOICE. Certainly not; but process butter is something like oleo- 

 margarine. 



Mr. KNIGHT. I want to call your attention, gentlemen, to a circular 

 sent out by Braun & Fitts, under date of March 17, 1899, in which they 

 say: 



Eggs are selling at cost, but "the only high grade" will give you profit, so keep 

 pushing its sale and build up a reputation for good butter. 



Senator DOLLIVER. Did I understand you to say they are making 

 artificial eggs? 



Mr. KNIGHT. Yes, sir; they are. They are making eggine. It is 

 an artificial egg, but not an imitation of eggs. There is the difference 

 between a substitute and a counterfeit. 



Senator ALLEN. Are these letters you have read reciting the sale of 

 oleomargarine from jobbers in oleomargarine to their customers, the 

 retailers ? 



Mr. KNIGHT. Letters from jobbers of butter? 



Senator ALLEN. 1 es. You have read several letters here in which 

 the writer would say to the person to whom it is sold to go on and sell 

 it and the cost and expenses of prosecution would be met. 



Mr. KNIGHT. One of them is the letter of Mr. Jelke's firm and 

 another 



Mr. JELKE. Oh, no. 



Senator ALLEN. They are either the manufacturers or jobbers. 



Mr. KNIGHT. The manufacturers in Chicago, if you mean the first 

 letters I read, Senator. 



Senator ALLEN. Yes. 



Mr. KNIGHT. Yes; one of them was Mr. Jelke's firm, and the other 

 was Mr. William J. Moxley's. 



Senator ALLEN. These letters were either from the manufacturers or 

 the jobbers in this article? 



Mr. KNIGHT. Those are the manufacturers. 



Mr. JELKE. Excuse me. Does not the Senator mean these letters 

 [indicating] ? 



Mr. KNIGHT. He is not talking about the Cincinnati letters; he is 

 talking about the Qther letters. 



Mr. SCHELL. I would like to have it go on the record right here that 

 I want an opportunity to look into the gentlemen who have written 

 these letters. I only recognize one name, and that is the name of a 

 man who is not responsible financially or in any other way; and as to 



