ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. j^j 



would like to have the law; not in simply thinking tTiat it is a good law; 

 but in thoroughly impressing on their representatives that it is a good 

 law; that it is to their interest, and that they must have it, and every 

 m'an who doesn't help them get it will be held strictly accountable. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Conklin: Is not the farmer the last man that ought to com- 

 plain, object to, persecute or prosecute the manufacture of oleomargar- 

 ine or butterine or any other substitute used for butter, when he is the 

 only man that can guard agains't all imitations and substitutes and 

 manufacture his own pure butter to his own taste, and at his own sweet 

 will? Is not the farmer the last man? There are 1500 men in thiij 

 factory here that wants to buy oleomargarine and they don't care about, 

 the stopping of the sale of that manufacture. 



A. If every man in the United States was the manufacturer of his 

 own butter. But the trouble is tliat oleomargarine is not sold to your 

 If.OO laboring men or operatives in this factory as oleomargarine. It is 

 not put at ten or twelve cents a pound so that he gets the benefit of the 

 cheapness. Buc Mr. Workman walks into the store and asks for a pound 

 of your best butter, and they hand him out a pound of oleomargarine,, 

 and he pays the price of butter lor it. 



Q. What's the matter with eating oleomargarine? 



A. I will ask if you knowingly and willingly eat butterine? 



Q. I make it every day most. I put my pork gravy and butter and 

 my tallow together and make it every day. 



A. If the gentleman wants it that way of course he is welcome to it. 

 For my part, I will take the pure dairy creamery butter in mine. 



A Member: I would like to ask what he thinks the price of butter 

 would be today if there was no oleomargarine? 



A. What the price of butter would be today if oleomargarine had 

 suddenly been stopped in its production yesterday? I would answer hioi 

 that it would probably be very high. 



Q. How much higher do you think if no oleomargarine was in exis- 

 tence? 



