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tion, addressed the Boston Board of Trade on November 

 11, 1880, as follows: 



A single firm in New York City has recently contracted 

 with parties in Vermont for 300,000 firkins to be delivered this 

 year, for packing oleomargarine butter. 



It is not only filling our markets in the shape of butter, but 

 also as cheese. Many creameries and many large dairies as I 

 am informed, are now mixing twenty-five per cent or more of 

 oleomargarine oil with their cheese. 



In view of the great and increasing magnitude of this busi- 

 ness and the danger of using the raw fats and stomachs of 

 diseased animals, and of those that die on the cars which 

 number hundreds of thousands annually, and of those that die 

 of pleuro-pneumonia, or cattle fever, or hog cholera, I think 

 we have no reason to rejoice over the erection of these enor- 

 mous factories which are now supplying the tables of our 

 hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, and private families with 

 oleomargarine, butter and cheese. 1 



There were probably numerous other humanitarians of 

 this type that were interested in the movement purely from 

 the point of view of social betterment. The force behind 

 the movement, however, was the dairyman. He had the 

 organization, and the votes to elect state and national sen- 

 ators and representatives. In this connection Prof. H. C. 

 Adams, in his report as Dairy and Food Commissioner of 

 Wisconsin, says : 



When the American farmer is roused he keeps everybody 

 busy. He may be childish sometimes, but nobody accuses 

 him of being weak when he stirs his class to action in a move- 

 ment that is right. The American farmer can get along with- 

 out flattery. He ought not to get along without justice. He 



1 Reprinted in Transactions of Illinois Department of Agriculture for 

 1880, p. 353- 



