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Show DUCHESNE MERCHANTS COMPLIMENTED National Dairy UnJo" ConapliiDcntH Duchesne County Merchants for Tbebr Support cf Dairymen. The following is a copy of a letter sent by tbe National Dairy Union to-ail to-ail of the merchants of DucbeBDe complimenting them for their support sup-port lo tbe dairy Industry of tba I county: Dear SI: Tbe butter industry of the United! States certainly .cngralulis wu on deciding to support your locali friends and producers. Oleomargarine Oleomarga-rine Is net the poor man's butter buti tbe rich man's graft. It can be pro-- duced in tbe United States at tbo-present tbo-present time for approximately ten tents per pound. This will give you seme idea of the graft there is in that bnsinees. By graft I mean tbe. spread between cost and selling price. In foxrd value oleomargarine ranks with lard, lard compounds, disco and cottonseed ell. You .know tbe price tbey con be gold fox. In fact oleomargarine pound for pound has a little ess dietetic value than lard or lard compound because there bzwr bee added to tbe fats in oleomargarine oleomar-garine from ten to twelve percent of water. Considerable more than one-baf of all. tbe material used in oleomargarine oleomar-garine comes from the Philippine- 'Islands and- tbe purchaser money spent for it goes either to the .rcfin- i er or the Spanish, English and Japanese Jap-anese padrone who own tbe coconut groves and work tbe poor Filipino at i ( about 25c a day. Butter money goes to the American farmer to be turned around and spent again fcr his necessities of life in our own. i country. v Yours sincerely, NATIONAL DAIRY UNION.. |