FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 85 



THURSDAY, 10 A. M. 



THE BUSINESS SIDE OF DAIRYING. 



H. J. Credicott, Freeport. 



I hardly know what to say to you. The chairman just 

 asked me to take Mr. Hull's place. It happens that I am one of 

 the directors of the National Dairy Union, but I expected Mr. 

 Hull would be here and handle the subject; and I have been so 

 busy I have not given it a thought. I can only give you a 

 rough idea of the things that we are standing for and what we 

 are trying to do. 



The Dairy Union, you know, is an organization of the al- 

 lied dairy interests and organized for the purpose of working 

 for oleomargarine legislation and looking after matters pertain- 

 ing to the enforcement of the oleomargarine laws. 



There have been several attempts on the part of the oleo 

 interests in the past few years to introduce bills into Congress 

 changing the present oleomargarine laws. The thing that they 

 are striving for, above everything else, is to abolish the color 

 law. They are willing to put goods up in individual packages, 

 pay a revenue tax and put a stamp on every package, and to 

 stand for any sort of regulations and restrictions except abol- 

 ishment of color. There are some men in the dairy interests 

 that have been in favor of the original package law and let the 

 color proposition take care of itself. The very fact that the 

 oleomargarine interests are willing and anxious to have the 

 original package law and allow all those things is evidence that 

 color is the bone of contention. What they want is the privilege 

 of coloring oleomargarine in imitation of butter, so that it will 

 sell as butter and be used in hotels and boarding houses as but- 



