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the sales of oleomargarine from twenty-five to thirty per cent. 

 It is only in our markets that the compounders have an open 

 Held, the majority of the other states where large centers of 

 population exist having entirely closed their doors to the com- 

 pound. That is the reason why the sales of this concoction 

 have decreased so largely. They have been shut out in eight 

 or nine states where its consumption was greatest." 



The President: "I am glad that question was asked, be- 

 cause we see it often stated in our public prints by the manu- 

 facturers of oleomargarine and butterine that there has been more 

 sold during the last year than any previous year, but I think 

 those statements are without foundation; as near as we can get 

 at it, there is about thirty per cent., perhaps a little less than 

 thirty per cent. I feel grateful that we have got a United States 

 law, and would be very glad if we had a state law in regard to it." 



Mr. Hostetter: "I want to ask a question in regard to the 

 action of the National Cattle Grower's Association. Did the 

 resolution that they passed ask for the repeal of the law ? " 



The Secretary: "I have the proceedings here in my hand 

 and will read the resolution, which was unanimously adopted: 



Whereas, All that the dairymen have in the past asked 

 was that oleomargarine and all substitutes or imitations for but- 

 ter offered for sale should be required by law to.be so offered in t 

 real character and under its true name; and 



Whereas, We now have a lav/ to that effect; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That the prohibition of these substitutes for butter 

 from exhibition at the fat-stock show is a discrimination against 

 the products of fat stock not asked for by intelligent and fair- 

 minded dairymen, and we respectfully ask that such discrimin- 

 ation be discontinued. 



That is exactly, gentlemen, where the action of the National 

 Cattle Grower's Association tried to force the hand of the Illi- 

 nois State Board of Agriculture in doing that which any man in 

 the state knows, if he is intelligent enough to read, would be 

 detrimental to the dairy interest of the state. 



In addition to that, the Sangamon County Breeders' Associa- 



