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OLEOMAKGAKINE. 



Acreage, production, and value of lint cotton and estimated production of cotton seed in 

 named States and United States, 1898-99 to 1900-1901. 



UNITED STATES. 



TEXAS. 



OKLAHOMA. 



INDIAN TERRITORY. 



1 Texas and Territories, 3,570,000 bales; this represents 1,785,000 tons of cotton seed. 



Now, I have said what I wished to state in reference to how this bill 

 will affect us cotton planters. 



I would like to say this in reference to the merits of this case : I see 

 no reason why the products of one agricultural section should be legis- 

 lated against for the benefit of another section. We all use butter 

 down our way; in fact, I presume they use it as much there as they do 

 anywhere else. I know I always have plenty on my table and never 

 have to buy any. But there is no right or justice in taking one prod- 

 uct for the benefit of another agricultural product. 



I would suggest, in place of placing the tax proposed by th:s Grout 

 bill on oleomargarine, that if the butter men are honest in what they 

 say, and simply do not want butter imitated, that can very easily be 

 remedied, according to my idea. I would suggest that the products 

 of the process-butter factories be put up round or oval packages, so 

 that they can be designated as process butter, and that oleomargarine 

 be pat up in square or rectangular packages and marked as it is now. 

 If they will make it compulsory by a law with penalties attached to 

 put oleomargarine up in bricks, a blind man or a child can tell exactly 

 what he is getting, and there can be no imposition; and it would not 

 work a hardship upon the dairy people at all. 



Senator MONEY. Then you want the renovated butter marked, too, 

 do you? 



Mr. PETERS. Yes. Let the process-butter people put their product 

 up in oval or round packages. I think they are the men who need 

 looking after, if I can judge from some little testimony I have read and 

 heard. 



I do not know, Senators, that there is anything further that I wish 

 to submit to you, unless it is a letter I received from Harvie Jordan, 



