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but he thought we would come in for part of the benefit 

 by the enactment of a law of that kind, and he took up the 

 matter of my going out to the farmers of the state and hav- 

 ing that and the filled milk bill put through, and I want 

 to say that for the last three years I have been working on 

 things of that kind, and at this time have been successful 

 in having that law enacted in twenty-four states and have 

 been instrumental in the way of helping to have the filled 

 milk bill enacted in twenty-seven states. 



I think they have done a lot of good. If I hadn't made 

 a case in Iowa against the Jelke people, the people that 

 used my cow, I wouldn't have known whether the law had 

 done any good or not, but I made a very careful survey in 

 the department when, just before I made this case, they 

 had come to Des Moines and engaged half-page space in 

 three daily papers, advertising this product. I didn't notify 

 them, I simply made the case against them, and when this 

 advertising was at its height I sent an inspector out over 

 Des Moines and had him find out how much oleo was being 

 sold there, then after the case had been made and they had 

 pleaded guilty and paid their fine, I sent an inspector out 

 again, two or three weeks later with this result, that there 

 was a falling off of about twenty or twenty-five per cent 

 in the amount of oleo sold in the City of Des Moines and 

 an increase of approximately the same amount of butter 

 sold. That showed me it was really worth while. 



We have had a lot of trouble in this respect: when we 

 would go into a state having in mind the enactment of this 

 law, the cottonseed people, that is the oleo people would 

 come in and say, *'If you enact that law, especially as you 

 get further south, what are you going to do? You are 

 going to cripple the cottonseed industries. Why? Because 

 of the fact that they use so much cottonseed oil in the 

 manufacture of oleo." I want to say that I have looked 

 into this matter carefully, and I find this, that there are 

 about three hundred million pounds of the different oils 

 that are produced and used yearly in the manufacture of 

 oleo. Now after all the story of the amount of cottonseed 

 oil that is used I find this, that there is only about ten per 



