1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
229 
IN FAVOR OF “OLEO.” 
An Argument and An Answer. 
I notice in your number of March 3 an 
article beaded Straight Talk, and also in 
the February 24 number an editorial 
comment saying tnat those who object 
to 'the bills now before Congress re¬ 
lating to butterine should tell us what 
plan would be more just. I would like 
to say that while I am a manufacturer 
of butter, I am also interested as a con¬ 
sumer of butterine, and much larger in 
this latter capacity than the former. It 
is certain that fraud in the sale of but¬ 
terine could be prevented, and it is 
equally certain that it is not the aim or 
intention of anyone espousing these 
bills. In Germany, which is the mother 
of sanitary and food legislation, they 
have a law to prevent the sale of sau¬ 
sage which contains horse meat, not 
to prevent sale entirely, because 
there can be no objection to the sale of 
horse meat in sausage, which is admit¬ 
ted to make the best sausage. It is, 
however, objectionable to allow it to be 
sold for pork sausage, and the law very 
simply restricts the round shape of sau¬ 
sage to pork sausage, whereas sausage 
in which horse meat enters as an in¬ 
gredient, even in a small degree, has 
to be pressed into a square shape. 
I am feeding, in the course of my 
business, 350 men ail Winter, and 
without butterine would be unable to 
give them butter substitutes. Before 
the manufacture of butterine commenced 
butter was not served on the tables of 
men working in large crews on railroad 
work, or in the lumber woods. Now it 
is in universal use, and no one think? 
of such a thing as calling it anything 
else but butterine. There is no attempt 
to pass it off for butter, and the deal¬ 
ers who retail it with practically no ex¬ 
ception, sell it for butterine. This talk 
of its being fraudulently given to the 
public is all bosh. The person eating it 
at a hotel or at a restaurant is impo.sed 
upon, but the hotel keeper certainly is 
not. Now if the object is to prevent the 
sale of butterine as butter, that could 
be prevented in the simplest manner 
by compelling all butterine to be put up 
in certain-sized small packages, and 
those packages could be so limited by 
law that no creamery or farmer would 
think of putting up butter in the same 
shape. For instance, if it required that 
butterine must be put up in one, two, 
five and 20-pound packages, and that 
each package in cube shape must be 
stamped in letters sufficiently large 
with the name butterine, and that each 
cube must be wrapped in wax paper on 
which is printed the manufacturer s 
name and brand, the whole question 
would be settled. This would entail an 
expense of probably a cent a pound to 
the putting up of the product, and would 
be in itself a severe tax and burden on 
the consumer. There are thousands and 
tens of thousands who, but for bur Cor¬ 
ine, would be unable to enjoy the bene¬ 
fit there is in it, and who would only 
very rarely be able to afford the luxury 
of butter. It is decidedly class legisla ¬ 
tion against the poor. 
For the rough kind of usage that in 
different phases of lumbering butterine 
is subjected to, butter would never an¬ 
swer. At the same price per pound 
lumbermen would buy butterine in pre p - 
erence to butter. If butterine should 
be withdrawn from the market, most 
lumbermen would refuse to buy but¬ 
ter, on account of the perishability 
and lack of uniformity of butter. From 
my point of view, legislation would be 
much more desirable in preventing fraud 
and the unsanitary methods now in 
vogue in the case of the great majority 
of farmers in the United States, in the 
handling of milk and butter, rather 
than to compel the people to pay tribute 
to the comparatively small number of 
its citizens who make butter. Our but¬ 
ter lias ranked so low that the markets 
of Europe discriminate against it, and 
these laws are simply means to compel 
its use at home, where others refuse to 
take it. These legislation laws are 
much less justifiable than the free distri¬ 
bution of seeds by the Agricultural De¬ 
partment. As between the two, hutter- 
ine laws are the ranker imposition. 
Wisconsin. Charles e. mann. 
R. N.-Y.—We are always willing to 
give all sides of any public matter. We 
have said again and again that we ob¬ 
ject simply to the fraudulent character 
of the oleo business. The plan proposed 
by Mr. Mann would not in our judgment, 
compel honest dealing. The dealers in 
“process” butter certainly have learned 
how to evade such a law. In summing 
up the matter, the editor of the New 
York Produce Review says that Con¬ 
gressmen should think these things 
over: 
First, that no injustice to oleomargarine 
as such is desired or asked for. No objec¬ 
tion is made to a fair and legitimate com¬ 
petition of oleomargarine with butter. But 
it is manifestly unjust that the substitute 
should be sold and used as and for tht 
genuine product of the dairy, and as long 
as it is manufactured in exact imitation oi 
butter such fraudulent substitution is in¬ 
evitable. 
Second, that butter has been made yellow 
for generations, and its color is one of its 
distinguishing characteristics. There is no 
injustice in restricting the ability of manu¬ 
facturers of a substitute in imitating this 
color which is done solely for purposes o: 
deception; on the other hand, it is a serious 
injustice to the buttermakers, dealers an 
consumers to permit such imitation. 
Third, that the ability to make Oleomar¬ 
garine in the guise of butter, by enabling 
dealers to retail it as and for butter, raises 
the price of the commodity, thus injuring 
the poorer class of consumers, who, for 
purposes of economy, are willing to buy 
and use oleomargarine as such. 
Fourth, that only by making the differ¬ 
ence between oleomargarine and butter vis¬ 
ible, can fair dealing and justice be secured. 
That is a fair, dignified statement of 
the case. The writer has worked in 
lumber camps, where pork gravy was 
the only fat supplied to workmen. We 
favor any reasonable law to enforce 
cleanliness in cows, barns and dairies. 
Fitting Up a Horse. 
I have a standard-bred trotting mare If 
hands, 2 y 2 inches high, that, when fully 
developed, will make a horse weighing 1,000 
pounds or more. She is a natural Hack¬ 
ney, so I had her tail docked. She is an 
all-round actor; I can make her pace. 
Would a pacer with a short tail be salable 
in any market? Would it be advisable to 
train her to a saddle, and make her pace 
under it, or would the trouble more than 
offset the extra price received? a. j. c. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
u this mare is young, has speed, and 
can be thoroughly broken to harness, it 
would pay the owner equally as well, if 
not better, to sell her as a driver. Good 
actors, as a rule, do not show much 
speed. There is a ready market for 
drivers that can show 2.25 or better; it 
makes little difference Whether they trot 
or pace. h. saunders. 
New Jersey. 
The Fas'ig-Tipton Company, of this 
city, say that there is but little demand 
for pacers with short tails, and it cer¬ 
tainly would not be advisable to train 
her to pace under a saddle, as few peo¬ 
ple would wish a saddle horse with such 
a step. Unless the animal has shown 
considerable speed—better than three 
minutes—'it is doubtful whether she 
could be sold to advantage in this mar¬ 
ket. 
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P ETER C. KELLOGG, Auctioneer, has been instructed by Messrs. AYER & 
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to Close Out at AUCTION the Entire 
Meridale Herd of Jersey Cattle 
ONTEiLnijiY 200 IIEA.D^ 
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As Foundation Cows, this herd secured live pure St. Lambert tested daughters of Stoke Pogis 3d and 10 
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into other herds, some of them prominent. In very many instances cows of Meridale breeding have made 
Increased tests for subsequent owners, readily demonstrating their blood inheritance when called upon to 
act it out. 
The herd has recently been subjected to the Tuberculin test by Dr. Francis Bridge, Veterinarian of the 
Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture for 18 years, whose certificate of health will accompany each 
animal sold. There is no cow in the herd that is vicious, tricky or difficult to milk, nor an aborter. 
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