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Show j " IN DAIRY BUSINESS. Washington Officials Sell Bntter and ' E8 from Their Karm tx Society Folic ; Every spring official Washington in recommended to pay from ten to fifteen fif-teen cents extra on the pound for but-tei but-tei because it comes from some senator's sen-ator's or congressman's farm. Ono administration found the receptions of a supreme court judge's wife a social so-cial place where trade in butter was j solicited, and so successfully that i more than one-foalf of the luncheons, J teas and dinners were supplied with , the product of the Tennessee dairy j ; farm of Justice Jackson, of the su- , ' preme court. Senator Stewart's Vir- ' ' : ginia farm is one of the best known : ' that looks to society for patronage ' 1 now. and one dealer unblushingly ( ! makes a bid for .the few cents extra . on the pound that a senatorial stamp ' will bring. Mrs. Fox, the senator's daughter, inherits her father's love of , farming, and has spent some smnnrera j on the place experimenting with but- tcr making, chicken raising and house parties. Hut even with the extra I charge for butter made from sena-f sena-f torial cows the senator's farm is much f more of a fad than an investment, and f none of his friends begrudge him tbo pleasure in his old days of watching the chickens scratch up bis Virginia 1 garden. |