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crease over the previous year, leaving but 153,784 pounds as 

 the increase of uncolored goods during the year. 



The oleomargarine business needs watching all the time. 



The number of persons who paid a United States tax the 

 past four years is shown by the following table : — 



Renovated Butter. 



The business of manufacturing renovated butter is still on 

 the increase in this country, so far as the total output is 

 concerned; but, according to Secretar}^ Wilson, "The law 

 [national] has not proven in any way detrimental to the 

 makers of country butter, whose product forms the bulk of 

 the stock worked up in factories." The same authority 

 reports an improvement of (juality in renovated butter. The 

 Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington reports 

 that the output of process or renovated butter for the year 

 ending June 1, 1905, was Gl, 36(5, 400 })ounds as against 

 55,747,736 pounds for the preceding fiscal year. The same 

 report shows a falling oft' in the number of factories of about 

 30 per cent. 



The real value of our State law lies in securing honest 

 dealing, quite as much as in the protection of dairy inter- 

 ests; and the condition as we have found it during the past 



