Show OLEO COMES TO KNOCK HIGH PRICE Licenses Have Been Issued to Scores of Dealers to Sell Substitute DAIRYMEN WILL SUFFER BUTTER IS STILL SOARING AND MAY CONTINUE TO DO SO Oleomargarine Is about to replace butter In Salt Lake Within the past thirty days das more thirty federal licenses for the sale of oleomargarine have been taken out In the office of E II H Callister Inter Internal internal nal revenue collector for this district and dealers who have heretofore handled only dairy butter arl ara being forced by the th high prices to l place Jace Its substitute on the market Within a few weeks time it is pro pre predicted oleomargarine will so far re replace replace place natural butter that the dairy dairymen dairymen men will find a large amount of their trade lost even when butter gets back Iback to normal figures Neither are the creamery men fore forecasting forecasting casting any decided drop In the prices when spring arrives A whole wholesale wholesale sale price Is predicted which means that butter will retail at from 35 to 40 cents Oleomargarine has never been used to any great extent in Utah The product Is one that Is naturally viewed with suspicion but which has been passed upon by pure food commIssion commIssioners ers as a clean and healthful substitute substitute tute for the natural product having th advantage that Its flavor Is less likely to undergo change and that it itcan Itcan can be kept for a greater length of time without showing the effects of staleness as does butter Product of Animal Fat The oleo is a product of clean ant ani animal mal fats which are first carefully treated and afterwards churned in fresh milk to give the flavor ot of natural butter Only a person ot of epicurean fastidiousness can detect the difference between oleo and natural butter and this is so well recognized that govern government mont ment and city authorities have enacted laws making it obligatory obligator upon those selling oleo leo that they must place signs so 50 Informing the public No state license Is required for ole margarine and Its sale price usually cuts butter At the present prices of 45 and 50 cents for natural butter the oleo will ivill cut it almost it if not quite According to Willard Hansen jr no effort can be made to deceive the pub public lie lic in regard to their purchase The state law provides that oleomargarine shall be labeled and Mr Hansen said last night that the law was fully corn com complied plied with Mr Hansen also said that his office would see that dealers prop properly properly erly advertised the sale of oleomargarine oleomargarine garine |