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THE BATTLE OVER OLEO. 
I notice on page 168 an editorial rela¬ 
tive to the importance of dairying in 
the South and the strength of Southern 
Congressmen lined up on the side of 
oleomargarine. The explanation of this 
is contained in the following letter writ¬ 
ten to me personally by a well-known 
Southern agricultural editor, who, for 
manifest reasons, does not care to be 
brought into controversy personally. 
Replying to your letter of recent date, I 
beg to state that I believe most Southern 
people are opposed to the tax on oleomar¬ 
garine. Southern daily papers and South¬ 
ern politicians were completely captured by 
the cotton-seed sophistry. The oleo manu¬ 
facturers did their work well, aud appealing 
to prejudices instead of reason or facts, 
they have won the support of the majority 
of the people in the South. Of course, you 
are right, that not only to the South as a 
whole but to the cotton-seed crushers it is 
much more important that the dairy busi¬ 
ness be built up than that they sell a small 
amount of cotton-seed oil to masquerade as 
butter. Th£ trouble is that the oleo people 
have made them believe there is a large 
amount of cotton-seed oil used in the manu¬ 
facture of oleo. It is much more important 
that the cotton-seed oil mills sell their meal 
for a good price than that they sell a 
small amount of oil to go into oleo, and the 
dairyman is the one man who can pay a 
higher price for cotton-seed meal. 
I am glad to see your allusions to the 
game being played by the oleomargarine 
people in the daily newspapers. It is 
a coincidence (?) that all of a sudden 
prominent daily papers all over the 
country should take upon themselves 
the reiterating of statements to the ef¬ 
fect that the high price of butter is due 
to the tax on oleomargarine, etc. The 
uniformity of sentiment is suggestive 
of some central inspiring agency rather 
than pure coincidence. Notice some of 
the utterances of different papers. The 
Boston Herald says, “The privilege of 
coloring oleomargarine was restricted 
by a tax so severe as virtually to drive 
it off the table.” A Central New York 
State paper says, “This substitute for 
butter would be still cheaper if it were 
not for the severe tax that was placed 
upon it a few years ago.” The Chicago 
News says, “The price of butterine is 
more than 10 cents per pound higher 
to the consumer than it would be with¬ 
out the tax imposed by the government.” 
“The present law is a protection to the 
dairies of the Middle West.”—Fort 
Worth, Texas, Register. 
A oleomargarine dealer in New York 
State has recently pleaded guilty and 
paid a fine for selling oleomargarine as 
butter. He was a peddler going from 
house to house selling “Sullivan County 
butter” at from seven to 12 cents per 
pound above the price of honest uncol¬ 
ored oleomargarine because the article; 
he dealt in was a counterfeit, and he 
sold the counterfeit as genuine. The 
oleomargarine interests are trying to 
make it appear that the tax on oleo¬ 
margarine is a tax on the “poor man’s 
butter,” but it is a tax intended to pre¬ 
vent as far as possible just such attempts 
to deceive and cheat the workingman 
as was practiced by the above dealer. 
A New Jersey colored oleo peddler re¬ 
cently got into trouble, too. He was 
selling the stuff at 35 cents. He prob¬ 
ably paid 17 to 19 cents. 
GEO. M. WHITAKER, 
Sec’y National Dairy Union. 
Those Chautauqua County Cows—January 
While the quantity of milk given by 
these cows is not regarded as re¬ 
markable, the quality steadily increases, 
and this counts when butter is 35 cents 
a pound. A sample taken from Branch’s 
milk on the evening of February 1, 
tested 7.8 per cent butter fat. The 
sample taken from her milk on the 
morning of February 2, tested 6.2 per 
cent butter fat, thus making the aver¬ 
age of the two tests 7 per cent as 
shown in the report. Here are the 
figures: 
JANUARY. 
BRANCH. 
31 days’ milk, 552 lbs. at $2.$11.04 
Daily average, 18 lbs. 
Babcock test, 7 per cent butter fat. 
MATILDA. 
31 days’ milk, 511% lbs. at $2.$10.23 
Daily average, 16% lbs. 
Babcock test, 6.2 per cent butter fat. 
$21.27 
COST. 
Hay . $4.65 
Silage .-. 4.56 
Grain . 4.18 
Interest . 1.00 
-14.39 
January’s net profit. $6.88 
Cost of production per 100. 1.35 
C. C. CLEMENT. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
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