FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 91 



Ohio, the Capital City Dairy Company has been producing oleo- 

 margarine for years that they passed as uncolored oleomarga- 

 rine, and yet it had a shade of color higher than the average 

 butter found in the New York market. The Government 

 brought suit against them for back taxes on the ground this was 

 artificially colored, by blanched oils or something like that, and 

 assessed a fine of one or two million dollars. They confiscated 

 the plant and sold it. About all they got was one hundred thou- 

 sand dollars. The owners bought the plant at public auction at 

 about that sum, but they established the case and they showed 

 it is easy enough to introduce artificial coloration when oils like 

 that kind are used. It appears that this bill, embodying those 

 features, should be easy of enforcement. That is a rough out- 

 line of the bill that the Dairy Union proposes to introduce. 



