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work, so the cause has never suffered from lack of ready money for ail 

 necessary expenses. 



OFFICERS OF/ DAIRY UNION GAVE THEIR TIME AND SERVICES 



FREE. 



The officers of the National Dairy Union received no salary. Not only 

 have they given freely of their time for three and a half years, but Pres- 

 ident (ex-Governor) Hoard has paid over SI, 500 personal expenses from 

 his own pocket, for which he asks' no return. 



WILL MAKE SI XTHOUSAND CARS OF OLEOMARGARINE THIS 



YEAR. 



The make of oleomargarine) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, 

 will reach close to 115,000,000 lbs., or 2,300,000 fifty pound tubs, against 

 104,000,000 lbs. last year. This would fill 6,000 cars and is equal to the 

 output of 2,000 of our 8,000 creameries, which in the year 1900 made 470,- 

 000,000 lbs. of butter. It displaces the product of 500,000 cows, and 

 never has gone on the table in shape so that it can be distinguished from 

 butter. Henceforth it must either throw off its yellow guise and be served 

 for what it is, or pay the 10c tax, which will bring its cost up to theprioe- 

 at which the farmer can produce butter in competition. 



NEW LAW LITTLE UNDERSTOOD. 



So many conflicting impressions of the new oleomargarine law have 

 gained circulation throughout the country that the writer believes some 

 corrections and information upon the subject of its character, strength 

 and scope are called for. 



The idea of the framers of the bill, and the basis upon which they 

 appealed to Congress, were the princ iples of what is known as the "anti- 

 color law," pronounced constitutional by the well-known decision of the 

 Supreme Court of the United States in Plumley vs. Massachusetts, handed 

 down December 14, 1894, by Justice Harlan. At the time of this decision 

 statutes of this character were in force in New York, Massachusetts, 

 Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio. Such strength was given the 

 Massachusetts statute by the Plumley decision that inside of six years from 

 the time it was rendered twenty-six mere states had copied the principle, if 

 not the letter, of the Massachusetts law, making the total number thirty- 

 two states where colored oleomargarine was forbidden. It was the exist- 

 ence of these laws that laid the foundation for the 10c tax on colored 

 oleomargarine, and the publication of these statutes by the Agricultural 



