OLEOMARGARINE. 



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Eepresentative BAILEY. Did you get one of them! 



Mr. MILLER. It is in the interest of the Grout bill. 



Eepresentative ALLEN. Did you get one of them under a frank! 



Mr. MILLER. No; but this came to a party in our employ. 



Representative ALLEN. Who was he? 



Mr. MILLER. The one in our employ, you meant 



Eepresentative ALLEN. Who was that man ? 



Mr. MILLER. One of our employees. 



Eepresentative ALLEN. What is his name? 



Mr. MILLER. James Hobson. He is an assistant in the butterine 

 department. 



Eepresentative ALLEN. He got that under the frank of Mr. Grout? 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir; here is the document, right here. 



Eepresentative ALLEN. Leave it with the committee. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. I would like to ask if that is not a public 

 document? 



Mr. MILLER. Why, yes; it is published, but it is published by Con- 

 gressman Grout. 



Eepresentative BAILEY. No ; he asked if it was not a public document? 



Mr. MILLER. No ; it is a reprint. 



Eepresentative BAILEY. A reprint of what? 



Mr. MILLER. It is the reprint of an article by some Ph. D. It says: 



Reprinted from the Year Book of the United States Department of Agriculture fur 

 1895. 



Now, gentlemen, dealers do not sell butterine promiscuously for 

 butter, as is claimed ; and if the promoters of this crusade had taken 

 the time and trouble to investigate in the various markets, they would 

 have found such was the case. We furnish all dealers selling our but- 

 terine with signs. They do not find it necessary to practice deception. 

 Our butterine sells on its own merits. 



Just here I think it apropos to inform this committee that the 

 secretary of the National Dairy Association made the statement to 

 Charles A. Sterne, a broker of Chicago, at the close of the Senatorial 

 pure food investigation there, that he had never been inside of a but- 

 terine factory. Yet this gentleman leads the fight against butterine, 

 and writes long editorials on a product he has never even seen manu- 

 factured. 



The internal-revenue regulations are strict and effective, and if the 

 National Dairy Association will commence the fraudulent sale of but- 

 terine they will very soon find out that this department is not only alive 

 and active, but that justice is dealt out very swiftly. We urge our trade 

 to sell butterine for just what it is, and never encourage or countenance 

 violation. All original packages are branded "oleomargarine," and 

 all of our regular brands which are sold under wrappers are also 

 branded " oleomargarine." In addition to this, the retail dealer must 

 brand the word " oleomargarine " on the outside of the wrapper. 



Butterine is wholesome, nutritious, and palatable. There is no secret 

 whatever about the process of manufacture. Our factory is open to the 

 public at all times. This product is composed of the following ingredi- 

 ents : Oleo oil (made from choice fats of the beef), neutral lard (or the 

 leaf lard of the hog), refined cotton-seed oil, milk, cream, salt, and 

 butter. 



We have never had a pound of paraffin in our factory, and we do 

 not desire stearin. 



The proportions of butterine vary according to the grades desired. 

 Cleanliness is enforced in our factory with the rigidity of the laws of 



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