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ceeded in discovering the presence of extraneous coloration, 

 and the Bureau immediately set about prosecuting the dealers 

 for selling oleomargarine in imitation of yellow butter. This 

 was followed by the United States Internal Revenue Depart- 

 ment takinof action, with the result that two of the factories 

 went out of business, the other apparently mending its ways. 

 Obviously, this is a business that will bear watching at all 

 times. 



The number of persons who paid a United States tax the 

 past three years is shown by the following table : — 



Renovated Butter. 

 Undoubtedly butter will and should be renovated, as long 

 as an inferior article, whether improperly made or improp- 

 erly kept, exists. The business has grown, until, according 

 to Secretary Wilson's report, 54,000,000 pounds was the 

 product of the year ending June 30, 1904. Much of this is 

 sold in such form that there can be no mistaking what it is ; 

 sometimes, however, it is sold for butter, put up in plain, 

 unmarked wrappers. This latter method the law expressly 

 forbids, and our prosecutions have been where such prac- 

 tices occur ; and never, during the last two years, have we 

 put a case in court where there were not two or more viola- 

 tions of the law, tending to show that it was the actual 

 practice of the offender, and not an accident. 



