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Show I I !! iMCs-s s i is s-sssfSJSWWSi i - -- - - - . . . ii. -i i i '"" '" .. i. ... ni.i i rnPRIRYINO A SHADOW ON DAIRYING. By E. L. Vincent. That is just what the oleomargarine oleomargar-ine business is, and we may as well face it. There is no worse foe to the dairy interests. of the country today than the bogus butter business. Soften Sof-ten it down as we may, fix all the regulations reg-ulations possible, wink at it as wc will, the fact always stands in the way that it is a fraud and as such it docs the farmer injury. That thousands of pounds are. sold every day of this stuff, especially in the icitics of any size, no one can doubt. Many times those who buy do not know what they arc getting. Many times more they do know 'bitt think those who cat it at restaurants and in stuff bought at the bake shops will never detect it. Now and then a man buys it because he thinks it is a saving of money to use it instead of good butter. But cat it as they will and buy it where they may, it always stands in the way of the salc of the real article, and so hurts the men who arc engaged in a good, honest dairy business. What can wc do about it? How can the laws of governing the stuff be made stronger? This is what everyone may well ask himself, for every pound of butter that wc make comes up against a pound which has been ground out through some secret process and which is certainly cer-tainly not fit to take into the stomach of any man who has a decent respect for his body. ' It is clean," you makers of this article say. "You are doing us an injustice," perhaps you add. If you do say this let us tell yoii in reply that many kinds of poisons poi-sons of the most deadly kind are clean but they are none the less poisons poi-sons for all that. Not that bogus butter is poison that is not the thought but it is an imitation of but ter and no imitation ever was as fit for use as the thing copied after. False butter, under any other name, should be shut out of the markets of this country. The strictest laws should1 be enacted against its manufacture manu-facture and sale. And the place to begin is with Congress. There is now a movement among farmers to strengthen the oleomargarine laws of the country. coun-try. They do not need strengthening; they do need wiping out and the strictest prohibitory lows enacted in their place. That is the only way to regulate that traffic. Can you write? Send a letter to your Congressman telling him how you feel about this and what you will do for him the next time you have a chance if he docs not do his best to put a stop to the miserable business of making bogus butter. o |