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low, rather than the greenish tint of yellow, while others preferred the 

 greenish tint. 



Senator ALLEN. I notice that the cotton- seed oil has a greenish 

 tint. 



Mr. JELKE. Yes, sir. 



Senator ALLEN. I made up nay mind at that time it was possibly 

 cotton-seed oil that had given it that slightly greenish color. 



Mr. JELKE. I should not like to express an opinion upon something 

 I had not seen. Cotton seed oil may have been in it. 



Senator ALLEN. 1 am not a chemist or specialist of any kind; I could 

 not reproduce it; I can only tell you how I remember it; but while the 

 general color was yellow, it seemed to have a slightly greenish tinge to 

 the yellow. 



Mr. JELKE. I also remember, when I was in the butter business, of 

 boiling it for twenty- four to thirty-six hours with anuato, and then 

 putting in what we call turmeric, something of a similar character, 

 only of a different color; it is a vegetable, and it has a greenish tint; 

 that is, if you get a little too much of the turmeric in with the annato 

 that greenish tint predominates, and if you get a little less, then the 

 reddish tint predominates. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. How do you get the butter taste into the 

 oleomargarine ? 



Mr. JELKE. By the use of milk and cream ; in the better grades by 

 the addition of a percentage of the finest butter we can buy. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. You are not obliged to use milk and cream 

 to make certain grades of oleomargarine 1 ? 



Mr. JELKE. We can get a butter flavor without the use of milk and 

 cream, but I do not think any oleomargarine is made without the use 

 of milk and cream. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. You have to have some product of the cow, 

 then, to get the butter taste? 



Mr. JELKE. Always; yes, sir. In fact we are now taking into our 

 factory every day the milk and cream from 300 or 400 cows cans of 

 milk and cream of 8 gallons each. That all comes from the farm. 



STATEMENT OF MR. D. A. TOMPKINS, 



Mr. Chairman, in the discussion of a subject like this, it seems to 

 me to be important to keep it in the direction of what constitutes the 

 merits of the whole industrial subject, and not have it take a course 

 that would simply put the subject in the attitude of an argument as 

 to whether one phase of an industry were being created by another 

 phase of industry; and legislation should have reference to any faults 

 that were found in the whole industry, and not have reference to any 

 kind of tax that would be calculated to handicap one end of it and 

 throw money in the direction of the other end of it. 



In the development of the industries of the United States we have 

 constantly found, from time to time, industries that were put in the 

 situation where improvements, energy, the working of more time, and 

 talents were handicapped. That was notable in the case of Bessemer 

 steel. When that was first introduced into this country it was a bogus 

 industry; it was unreliable; not a great deal was known about it. 

 And yet, in the face of all the opposition it transpired in the end that 

 it was the best thing that ever happened to oar metallic industries. 



And in the business of flour and wheat that went West, they had 

 methods of getting whiter Hour, perhaps not better flour, but the 

 people are still buying the whiter flour; so that business went out of 

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