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Show ;, i "kv" - August II. Andresen, Republican (Minnesota) Dairy Bill Lifts Taxes, Bans Fraud By August H. Andresen Republican, Minnesota The new dairy policy is fair to consumers, fair to retailers , and distributors, and fair to the ole industry. It also protects our vital dairy industry against -compleU loss of the crucial butter marke to a product using deceptive color atlon to gain economic advantage Under my bill any housewife car obtain all the oleomargarine sht wants without the payment of an taxes whatever, but the . product must be sold for what it Is, and not as an 'Imitator of butter. Oleomargarine manufacturer want the unrestricted right to sell oleo colored yellow to imitate but let and thus monopolize the table spread market With, butter and dairy prices already declining and pushing down dairymen's incomes, this additional loss of $250,000,000 a year would mean outright disaster disas-ter to 2,500,000 dairy farmers and their families, and to 40,000 small dairy plants and their employees. Farmers would be forced to slaughter millions of milk cows an economic body blow to consumers consum-ers who are dependent on dairy herds for 40 per cent of their beej and veal and all of their milk. Decline De-cline in dairy cow numbers as a result re-sult of lost butter markets would be heaviest in states depending most on butter as a source of Income. In-come. For example, there are 18 surplus milk-producing states where sales of farm-separated cream, largely destined for butter, amount to 10 or more of total sales of milk In all forms. Nearly 27 per cent of all milk produced In the country normally is churned Into butter. "', The dairy farmers of the nation who swung their political strength to Harry S. Truman on November 2, thus assuring hia election, will be poorly repaid if repeal of all restrictions on yellow oleomargarine oleomargar-ine is foisted on them, This threat to the existence of the dairy industry indus-try is sponsored . and financed by only 28 oleomargarine manufacturers, manufac-turers, who seek to remove all legislative restrictions on the sale of oleomargarine colored yellow la imitation of butter. |