ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. IOJ 



fellow was always picking his quarrels with bigger boys than himself, and 

 would then say, " I will get my big brother to fight you all right." Some- 

 times he would pick his quarrels with bigger boys than his brother, and 

 his brother would get the worst of it. And I am saying that is what we 

 are going to do. 



The position of the dairymen today is this: We have got a law 

 started on the statute books which prevented the oleo people from mak- 

 ing as much the past year by 33 per cent. The product would have 

 increased this year 33 per cent but for this law, with the high prices of 

 butter; that is conceded by the oleomargarine people themselves. But 

 for the progress that we have made with the oleomargarine law they 

 would have increased it 33 per cent and would have made GQ per cent 

 more than they have made this year. Prices during the last year on 

 butter was 4.2 cents higher than the year before. The butter market has 

 been higher than at any time for the past ten years; never has there 

 been a time when butter has sold as well as it has the last year. But 

 with the loophole that is left ,and was of necessity left in the law last 

 winter, which permits the oleomargarine people to use various vegetable 

 oils from yhich they may get a natural color, we see a danger that must 

 be stopped next winter. 



As it is today, oleomargarine is being produced with light yellow 

 color. However, the color is gotten at the expense of quality every time. 

 The natural ingredients are cotton seed oil, neutral lard, the best of oleo 

 oil and that composition makes a white product. There is a crude cotton 

 seed oil which can be used under the internal revenue order which gives 

 it a yellow color, but there is a taste and smell which is in it that the 

 best manufacturers of the finest goods refuse to use it and are making 

 a pure white product. The yellow goods deterioates in quality very fast. 

 Those goods can be used in places like Chicago, but they are not good and 

 not satisfactory for jobbers. 



We found this about oleomargarine: the people who take uncolored 

 oleomargarine at 12 to 15 cents is a channel and class of consumers that 

 interfers very little with butter. It goes down in a strata and reach 

 people who would not have anything on their bread but for this class of 

 stuff. People can discriminate between uncolored oleomargarine and 

 butter and can take their choice. 



