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told us, which is that tho, 10 cents a pound in addition to the cost of 

 its manufacture would prohibit its manufacture in competition. 



Mr. NEVILLE. You do not contend that this would place 10 cents a 

 pound on all butterine? 



Mr. ALLISON. Colored! 



Mr. NEVILLE. Colored as butter. 



Mr. ALLISON. Yes, sir. 



Mr. NEVILLE. Bat when it is not colored you do not understand it 

 as imposing any tax ? 



Mr. ALLISON. No; I understand it. 



The CHAIRMAN. There are two questions in one there. You say 

 colored as butter. The contention is that it is not colored as butter 

 but that they simply use a color. Did you intend to answer the ques- 

 tion in that way colored as butter, or colored ? 



Mr. ALLISON. I do not understand the question. 



Mr. NEVILLE. The question I asked was 



Mr. ALLISON. I understand his question to be, if my understanding 

 is correct, I understand this bill to impose a tax on oleomargarine 

 colored as butter. 



Mr. NEVILLE. That is right. 



Mr. ALLISON. That is all ; colored like the butter we know ; whether 

 that is the natural color of the butter or not, I am not a butter maker, 

 and I do not know. I do know this, that the producers of natural but- 

 ter in all of the butter producing countries are themselves the largest 

 producers of cotton-oil butter. They are themselves the producers of 

 the butter containing very largely the very element that we furnish to 

 the butterine manufacturer to put in his butterine, and in this way of 

 the 2,000,000 tons of cotton seed annually crushed in the South, there 

 is made three-quarters of a million pounds of cotton seed meal, which 

 is recognized as the most nutritive and highly concentrated cattle 

 food known. The butter producers are buyers of the cotton seed meal. 



Mr. NEVILLE. To feed to their cows ? 



Mr. ALLISON. Yes, sir; the German and Holland people, who are 

 the largest butter producers, buy it simply because the cattle fed upon 

 it produce better butter and more butter. It produces it because of its 

 nutritive qualities, and because of that certain small percentage of the 

 cotton-seed oil left in the meal, which is of so nearly the same constit- 

 uents of the material required to make the butter that it passes through 

 the cow's stomach almost unchanged into the milk ducts. 



Mr. NEVILLE. Does it bring about as much when sold to the dairy 

 people as food for their cows as when it is sold to the butterine people? 



Mr. ALLISON. 1 think you misapprehend me. 



Mr. NEVILLE. You mean cotton -seed oil? 



Mr. ALLISON. Yes, sir. 



Mr. NEVILLE. Will the cotton seed produce as much when sold to 

 the dairy people as feed for cows as when sold to the butteriue people? 



Mr. ALLISON. I do not understand. 



Mr. NEVILLE. Is the oil used in the production of oleomargarine 

 higher priced, and does it bring more value to the producer of cotton 

 seed than the cotton-seed meal when sold to the dairy poople? 



Mr. ALLISON. Why, thay are two entirely different products. They 

 are entirely different products. They are not to be compared at all 



Mr. WILLIAMS. What you want is to know which is the by-product 

 and which is the main product? 



Mr. BAILEY. What do you sell the cake at? 



Mr. ALLISON. Twenty-one dollars a ton, about. 



Mr. BAILEY. Twenty-one dollars a ton? 



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