OLEOMARGARINE. 765 



committee to what extent your researches have gone, and what have 

 been their results ? 



Dr. CRAMPTON. The great bulk of my work on that product is in the 

 direction of determining whether a suspected sample is oleomargarine 

 or butter. That constitutes the greater part, nine-tenths or ninety- 

 nine one-hundredths, of my work in connection with the product. I 

 have, however, occasionally made a special investigation of the article, 

 as to the ingredients which are used in it. and so forth. 



Representative ALLEN. Do you know from what manufacturer the 

 oleomargarine which you have examined has come or of what factory 

 it was the product? 



Dr. CRAMPTON. Not in all cases. I do, however, in the case of these 

 samples which I have in my hand, which are, you might say, a supple- 

 ment to the report of Revenue Agent McGinnis. 



Representative ALLEN. Just go ahead and make your statement in 

 that regard in such way as you desire. 



Dr. CRAMPTON. These samples were sent in by the revenue agent at 

 the time he made his investigation of the factories in Chicago, and are 

 samples which he took of the materials which entered into the manu- 

 facture of oleomargarine at these factories at the time he made his 

 investigation. These materials are probably quite well known to the 

 committee as the ordinary ingredients of oleomargarine. Three of 

 these samples came from one place and two from another. 



Representative ALLEN. Designate the places. 



Dr. CRAMPTON. Do you want the name of the manufacturers from 

 whom they came? 



Representative ALLEN. Yes. 



Dr. CRAMPTON. The three samples came from Hammond Company, 

 Hammond, Ind., near Chicago. The two samples came from the Inter- 

 national Packing Company, of Chicago. 



The three samples are, respectively, oleo oil, neutral lard, and cotton- 

 seed oil. These I have examined with a view simply of determining 

 whether they are or are not what they are represented to be, and as to 

 their general character as ingredients of oleomargarine, whether they 

 are or are not fit materials to use for that purpose. This examina- 

 tion I made under the direction of the commissioner, simply as a sup- 

 plement to the revenue agent's reports; and I may say that these sam- 

 ples speak for themselves, without any investigation. They seem to be 

 wholesome and palatable, and proper materials for the production of 

 this commodity, the manufacture of which is licensed by law, and with 

 which we have to deal. If the committee cares to see these samples I 

 will be very glad to exhibit them. 



Representative ALLEN. Do you find anything in the composition of 

 those samples which render them deleterious as food for the human 

 stomach? 



Dr. CRAMPTON. No, I do not; no, sir. Of course, the investigation 

 of them which I made was not a searching bacteriological investiga- 

 tion or a very extensive investigation; because they are articles which 

 are pretty well known, and have been investigated a great deal. 



Representative ALLEN. What is the relative proportion of bacteria 

 found in oleomargarine and butter? 



Dr. CRAMPTON. I am not able to speak on that subject as to my own 

 investigations. I have not made investigations along that line. 



Representative ALLEN. But you give it to this committee as your 

 opinion, as an officer of the Government in charge of that duty, and 



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