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consider that the consumer of oleo lias absolutely no protec- 

 tion either in law or natural conditions against the use of the 

 most deleterious of material. By the aid of chemistry the 

 foulest of fats can be deodorized and rendered agreeable to 

 the taste. Butter always advertises its true condition, and 

 no man has any need to be deceived. Not so with oleo- 

 margarine. It is a compound fat, and the law has not 

 established any standard of safety or purity in its construc- 

 tion. All the protection the consumer has is the greed of 

 the manufacturer, and anyone can readily see how little that 

 protection is. I was talking with a friend List week, who 

 said, "Vv 7 e are in a serious strait on this question. How 

 can we make any enactment against this article? How can 

 we say anything against a food product, if people want it?" 

 I said, "You cannot, but let me give you a way out of it. 

 This is simply a question of imitation, and imitation is based 

 on a fraud always." To imitate may be the sincerest of flat- 

 tery, and it is; but it is always a fraud, and a fraud finds 

 instinctive hostility in all principles of law, and consequently I 

 think the proper thing to do is to compel it to appear in its own 

 color, and not masquerade in the color of real butter. Let 

 it select any color it has a mind to but the butter color. 

 New Hampshire has cut the Gordian knot, and told oleo- 

 margarine to parade in pink. The result is that oleo does 

 not parade in pink in New Hampshire. It does not want to 

 be recognized. 



I am to speak to you to-night upon " The Dairy Temper- 

 ament of Cows." Allow me to preface the desultory remarks 

 I shall make by saying that for thirty years I have been a 

 student along certain line:* connected with the functions of 

 dairy cattle, and for these thirty years I have been patiently 

 pursuing certain lines of investigation, and collecting data 

 upon almost every point independently of all others ; so that 

 on some of the points concerning which I shall speak to you 

 to-night I have data reaching as high as from three to eight 

 thousand in number. About four or five years ago I com- 

 menced lecturing in our institutes in the West upon this 

 question, and I made the statement that I believed that all 

 the functions of motherhood were based upon the nervous 

 temperament. I began to see that temperament had a very 



