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We have given your firm the number which is on the "order 

 blanks," and it is not necessary to write your name on orders. 



The butterine is shipped to j^our customers in your care, and will 

 be sent direct to you, and each package will be tagged to the cus- 

 tomer it has been sold to ; also we will forward you the bills for 

 collection, and charge these parties under j^our number, and will 

 expect you to remit for these goods as soon as bills are collected. 



We will wrap each package with paper, so that you can deliver 

 the same to customers without others being aware of its contents. 



Our cream butterine is put up in 10, 20, 30, 50 and 60 pounds 

 solid-packed tubs, and 10 pound cases of 1 pound brick prints, 

 also 37 pound tubs of 1 pound bricks, which is "butter color," 

 and we quote you the very low price of 12 cents per pound, 

 F. O. B., Provideuce. 



^Ye will ship either by freight or express, as j^ou request ; and, 

 as the profit on these goods is more than is made on butter, we 

 know you will push it hard, and hope your commissions which we 

 forward you each month will be quite large. Some of our " order 

 agents " are making from $75 to $100 per month, and we do not 

 doubt but that you will take care to see yours at that point ; also 

 we will say that if you desire to put a man on this work specially 

 in your city we think he will make you money, as he should get 

 from 15 to 23 cents per pound, which is a good profit over 12 

 cents F. 0. B., Providence. We now await results. 



In some instances the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is 

 itself an evader of the law, if not an open violator of it. In 

 the discussion in the Legislature last winter tlie friends of 

 oleomargarine admitted that the Commonwealth itself is the 

 greatest violator of the law% inasmuch as its agents annually 

 buy large quantities of the article for use in State institutions. 

 It was claimed that bills on file at the oflSce of the State Audi- 

 tor show that large quantities are used at the various State 

 farms, almshouses, hospitals and other institutions. Some 

 of the private charitable institutions also use this deceptive 

 imitation, and in some instances even the veterans of the late 

 war, who fought valiantly to preserve the Union and who 

 find themselves in straightened circumstances in old age, are 

 given this same product. 



It may not be out of place briefly to re-state the arguments 

 and facts on which these laws are based. The oleomargarine 

 manufacturers and dealers keep up a constant agitation, 



