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which means the bringing against us an enemy with three times the 

 strength the oleomargarine people have. This antagonism that is being 

 pushed today against renovated butter is causing us a whole lot of extra 

 trouble. The manufacturerers of renovated butter stand in relation to 

 the people who protect country butter, exactly the same as the creamery 

 men do to their patrons. The man who makes renovated butter buys his 

 material from the store keeper, and the store keeper from the farmer. 

 Thus farmers, who furnish the material for the seventy-five or eighty 

 million pounds of renovated butter that has been made in the last year, 

 are working against their own interests when they offer these resolutions 

 against renovated butter at this time. These manufacturers were just 

 as active for the legislation that we have on our statute books as the 

 creamery patron or the cream'ery man himself. In the districts of Ohio, 

 Illinois and district of Indiana and other districts where there are fewer 

 creamery patrons, it is the farmer who produces the stuff from which 

 renovated butter is made that bought his manufacture. 



These same manufacturers were in favor of the bill which required 

 that butter to be marked; they thought it was right and that it should be 

 known. Every one was satisfied to have this product marked so that 

 people can know it; there has been no fault found. But recently resolu- 

 tions have been introduced calling upon congress, or particularly legis- 

 latures to subject renovated butter to the same restrictions as oleomar- 

 garine is restricted, to prevent the coloring of it, etc. Such resolutions 

 as that, and such work as that, means that we are bringing into the field 

 to fight, another interest; an interest with suporters in ten places where 

 the oleomargarine people have suporters in one. The moment you com- 

 mence such a fight as this, you have forty or fifty manufacturers of 

 renovated butter sending literature to the farmers who made the goods 

 and they in turn flood congress with letters against the passage of any 

 bill that has anything in it regarding the products in which is used their 

 butter. 



The oleomargarine law as it stands today is not perfect. We got 

 it through the best we could. We have got to have it amended. The 

 very minute we go into congress and introduce a bill in the house, the 

 oleomargarine contingent is going to put an amendment on that and 

 strike at renovated butter. They are going to put an amendment on that 



