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Section 2. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent or as 

 the servant or agent of any person, firm or corporation, sells, exchanges 

 or delivers, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, 

 exchange or deUver, any container of evaporated, concentrated or 

 condensed milk, within this commonwealth, not marked or labeled 

 in compliance with the jDrovisions of section one of this act, shall 

 for the first offence be punished by a fine of not more than one hun- 

 dred dollars, for a second offence by a fine of not less than one hundred 

 nor more than two hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offence by 

 a fine of five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than 

 three months nor more than six months. 



Section 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of Septem- 

 ber in the year nineteen hundred and eleven. 



Oleo:margarike from National Standpoint. 



The total amount of iiiicolored oleomargarine withdrawn 

 United States tax paid in year ending June 30, 1910, that 

 is, what was sold in this country, was 135,149,429 pounds, 

 or 97 per cent of the whole, and the tax at ^A cent per pound 

 amounted to $337,898.57. If, as is now proposed, 2 cents 

 per pound had been paid as tax on this same amount the 

 revenue would have increased sevenfold, and would have 

 amounted to $2,703,188.58. In view of this fact we are 

 constrained to ask three questions. First, does the consumer 

 want to pay this increased tax? Second, does the consumer 

 want his oleomargarine colored to more closely imitate 

 creamery butter, thus increasing the chance of his being more 

 readily imposed upon by being required to pay an approxi- 

 mate creamery price for it? Third, why does the oleomar- 

 garine manufacturer wish to re-establish a system which was 

 really responsible for the necessity for laws to protect the 

 consumer from fraud from the outset? This question of tax- 

 ing oleomargarine and thus restricting the use of coloring 

 matter in its manufacture is of vital importance to pro- 

 ducers, dealers and consumers; therefore all should be alive 

 to the situation, and see to it that no ill-advised legislation 

 takes place in our national Congress. 



Co-OPERATIO?r. 



This Bureau has on several occasions in the past advocated 

 a State dairymen's association, and we believe that such 



