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Mr. KNIGHT. And butter is the cheapest at that time of the year. 



Mr. TOMPKINS That is all right, too. 



Senator ALLEN. Some time, probably before the 1st of August, the 

 butter begins to get pale, so that unless the cow is fed other than food 

 in the pasture until along about December, the butter would be almost 

 white, having but a slight yellowish tinge. 



Senator DOLLIVER. Suppose it should turn out, as some of the testi- 

 mony would seem to indicate, that in large cities, like Washington, 

 poor people, anxious to supply their table, are inveigled by the appear- 

 ance of your oleomargarine goods into paying the better prices for it 

 under the impression that they are getting butter, whereas in point ot 

 fact they are getting an article which, in the ordinary state of the 

 market, ought to be worth very much less! 



Mr. TOMPKINS. Is not that same thing applicable to white butter as 

 well as to colored butter 1 ? The principle of the deception in the one, it 

 seems to me, is quite as important as in the other. 



Senator ALLEN. One is butter and the other is not, and the consumer 

 buys the oleomargarine under the impression that it is butter. It is a 

 substitute for butter now. I am not prepared to say that it is now 

 wholesome, so far as I am concerned. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. It is a wholesome article of food. That is 

 not disputed. 



Mr. TOMPKINS. I do not think any body disputes it except the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture. 



Senator ALLEN. What is the color point of butter ! 



Mr. JELKE. I think butter dealers count color at 15 points. 



Mr. KNIGHT. Ten points, 1 think. 



Senator ALLEN. So far as I am individually concerned, I do not care 

 anything about the color of butter. 



Mr. JELKE. If butter is perfectly sweet to the taste it is immaterial 

 about the color. But the trouble is about butter that is not perfectly 

 pleasant to the palate. 



Senator ALLEN. I know that butter overscalded on the farm will be 

 almost as white as paper and at the same time very palatable. 



Mr. PAUL. Allow me to submit the standard official score from the 

 twenty-sixth report of the Philadelphia Produce Exchange: 



FORM B. Standard official score. 



Points. 



Flavor 45 



Body 25 



Color 15 



Salting - 10 



General appearance 5 



Total 100 



Senator ALLEN. What is the estimated value of colored oleomar- 

 garine ? What points do you count? 



Mr. JELKE. We have never made an estimate of those points; but 

 I should think it worth fully as much to us as to the butter dealers. 



Senator DOLLIVER. I haven't got it in my head how you can place 

 a label on a package of oleomargarine, showing that it is oleomargarine, 

 and then expect the public to buy it. It seems to me it would have 

 the effect of destroying the industry. 



Mr. JELKE. That would be practically the effect. 



Mr. TOMPKINS. It would put us in a situation where poor people 

 would not buy, because it would have a brand of condemnation, as it 

 were. 



