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Mr. NEVILLE. Then you say it would enable them to sell it for a 

 higher price than they would sell it for if it were not colored. 



Mr. COWAN. I do not know whether it is the cause of it or not. My 

 dairyman sells me colored butter, and it is made from cows that are fed 

 on cotton seed, and that butter when it is made is as white as can be, 

 but I would not buy it if it was not colored. It might be the same 

 with oleomargarine. 



Mr. NEVILLE. You would not buy butter that is not colored? 



Mr. COWAN. I might, but I would rather buy it colored. 



Mr. NEVILLE. Were you at this meeting that passed this resolution ? 



Mr. COWAN. I was. I was at. the Live Stock Association meeting 

 that was composed of all the live stock interests of this country. I was 

 present at the annual meeting of the Live Stock Association at Fort 

 Worth, on January 20, when a resolution like this was passed, and it is 

 indorsed by all these associations whose names are comprised in this 

 list, which I now submit to the committee. 



Mr. NEVILLE. I did not ask the question for the purpose of discred- 

 iting the fact that there was such a meeting. 



Mr. COWAN. I did not so understand you, and I mention this in 

 order to show you that this is not trumped up evidence nor on the part 

 of any manufacturers. I do not know any manufacturers. 



Mr. NEVILLE. This speaks of increase of tax on oleomargarine colored 

 in imitation of butter. Did they also know that it would decrease the 

 tax if it was not colored? 



Mr. COWAN. That was not discussed in my presence, and I was there 

 at both meetings. 



Mr. NEVILLE. If, as a matter of fact, oleomargarine was not colored 

 in imitation of butter, and if in its natural state, as manufactured 

 without coloring, it would sell for a less price than it does with color- 

 ing, do you believe the consumers would want to buy it in its colored 

 or uncolored state? 



Mr. COWAN. That is a speculative matter, and I could not determine. 

 That depends. 



Mr. NEVILLE. Speaking of whisky, of which you and I perhaps are 

 better judges, do you think that we might want to buy more whisky if 

 it was colored ? 



Mr. COWAN. Yes, sir; in the town where I was raised we had two 

 brands of whisky the Lincoln County whisky and another kind. The 

 Lincoln County whisky was higher colored than the other and it was 

 also higher priced, and I don't know that there was any other particular 

 difference between them, but we always bought the Lincoln County 

 whisky. 



Now, I want particularly to call the attention of the members of this 

 committee to the list of associations that belong to this national asso- 

 ciation which met at Fort Worth, and I want to say that everyone of 

 these had a good delegation there. 



Mr. WILLIAMS. Please just read that list. 



(The list referred to was here read by Mr. Cowan, and is as follows:) 



Oneida County Wool Growers' Association, Idaho; Colorado Cattle Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, Colorado; Kansas City Stock Yards Company, Missouri; Union Stock Yards 

 Company, South Omaha, Nebr. ; Denver Union Stock Yards, Colorado; Pueblo 

 Union Stock Yards, Colorado; Arizona Stock Growers' Association, Arizona; Fort 

 Worth Stock Yards Company, Texas; South Omaha Live Stock Exchange, Nebraska; 

 American Feeders and Breeders' Association, St. Paul, Minn. ; Larimer County Stock 

 Growers' Association, Colorado; Cattle Kaisers' Association, Texas ; Custer County 

 Cattle Growers' Association, Colorodo; Stock Feeders' Association, Eastern Koutt 

 County, Colo.; Sioux City Stock Yards Company, Iowa; Sioux City Live Stock 

 Exchange, Iowa; Live Stock Sanitary Board, Arizona; Saguache Stock Growers' 

 Association, Colorado; Kern County Cattle Growers' Association, California; \Vest- 



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