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the manufacturers, or do you mean that that! percent is the total 

 amount which has ever been sold by the retailers? 



Mr. DADIE. That is the total amount. 



Representative NEVILLE. All that 1ms been sold by the retailers, 

 with the manufacturers' sales, amounted to only 1 per cent of the 

 total amount sold ? 



Mr. DADIE. Yes, sir. 



Representative NEVILLE. Now, in Nebraska we have a law which 

 absolutely prohibits the sale of oleomargarine in the color of butter, or 

 colored as butter. While last year, with 1,058,910 population 



The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Neville, 1 would suggest that we have quite a 

 number of witnesses here, and I think you ought to confine your 

 thoughts to questions. 



Representative NEVILLE. That is my intention. 



The CHAIRMAN. You can take up the balance of the time of the 

 committee with two or three questions in that way. 



Representative NEVILLE. My intention is simply to ask questions; 

 that is all. Now, in Nebraska there was sold 1,024,985 pounds, by 73 

 dealers, colored as butter; and I find that in all the States together 

 which sold butter w r here there was an anticolor law, there was more 

 butterine sold, or a total of 62,825,582 pounds, as against 16,860,142 

 pounds in the States where there were no such laws. 



Mr. DADIE. I have no doubt but what those things that you have 

 mentioned were sold as oleomargarine, and not as butter. 



Representative NEVILLE. What do you say as to the people who 

 enter the hotels and are getting butterine or oleomargarine every day? 

 Do they believe that is butteriue or do they think it is butter? 



Mr. DADIE. My experience has been that in a hotel, now, people 

 imagine they are getting oleomargarine all the time. 



Representative NEVILLE. You think that is what they think they 

 are getting. Now, I would like to ask you another question or two. 

 You state that you are the originators of the process of coloring matter 

 in oleomargarine, and that you used it prior to any color having been 

 used in butter. Do you mean to assert that as a fact? 



Mr. DADIE. I am talking about a commercial product. Everybody 

 knows that on a farm, before oleomargarine was ever invented, the 

 people used to grate carrots and use other things to color their butter. 

 But it is a fact that butter has not been colored to any extent until 

 after oleomargarine was manufactured and colored, and that the intro- 

 duction of color is the result of the introduction of oleomargarine as an 

 article of commerce. 



Representative NEVILLE. Is it not true that oleomargarine was dis- 

 covered as a product and first manufactured at the time of the Franco- 

 Prussian war as a necessity in France? 



Mr. DADIE. I believe that is true. 



Representative NEVILLE. Now, do you pretend to assert that butter 

 was not colored in creameries in the United States prior to that time? 



Mr. DADIE. I have no recollection of any color being used prior to 

 that time. As a matter of fact creameries are an invention of about 

 the same date. 



Representative NEVILLE. Well, I do not think so. I think I know 

 creameries that existed before that time. You may assert that that is 

 not true; but that is merely a difference of memory, perhaps. 



Now, I want to ask you this question. You state (hat butter is col- 

 ored in the winter time in order to make it look like June butter, or 

 butter that was made from cattle fed upon green grass. I want to ask 



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