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Show Why Have Butterfat Prices Gone Down? The answer is very simple, and has nothing to do with the recent stock market crash. There is more butter on the market to-day than can be sold. This surplus amounts to over 45,000,000 pounds Naturally, with so much butter on hand, prices have dropped. Creameries cannot get the high prices they used to get for good quality butter. There is too much of it. The Federal Farm Board recently made the statement state-ment that butter today is being sold at less than cost of producing it. That means that everybody having a hand in the butter business loses. There is no profit in cream or butter when prices are low. But' what caused this big butter surplus! Who is to blame for it? . ' Let one of the foremost authorities on butter marketing mar-keting in the United States answer this question. "In my opinion1 dairying has not been everdeveloped, notwithstanding not-withstanding the 45,000,000 pounds of surplus butter. Eather T would say that the manufacture and sale of oleo, butter substitutes, and cooking fats has been overdeveloped overdevel-oped to the detriment of butter." ' The volume of butter substitutes sold in this country coun-try is one-sixth of the total amount of butter consumed. Much of this butter substitute is produced from cheap vegetable oils imported from southern countries. And too many people including cream-producers have stopped eating good, wholesome butter and are now buying oleo and other vegetable fat substitutes. This hurts you, and us, and everybody connected w'lli the butter industry. The Federal Farm Board further says: "The farmers farm-ers -)f he country art; themselves partly responsible for this condition because of their failure to use their onw butter. "We urge the farmers of the nation to help improve ihe prices o1' dairy products by using more butter." Statistics show that farmers buy-70 per cent of all oleo ol-eo and other butter substitutes. This has saved the farmers farm-ers over the entire country about $5,000,000. But this so-called saving has cost the dairy farmers -A America $175,000,000 in lower prices. Every nickel you save in buying oleo costs you and the butter industry $1.75. Can anybody call that a saving? liu addition, (lie human body needs the valuable vitamins vit-amins in butter, which arc NOT found in any oleo or substitute. sub-stitute. Folks on the farm need these health-giving vitamins equally as much as city people. Nor is it fair to rob your own pocket book of dollars, when the saving you make is in pennies. USE MORE BUTTER S. P. MELGAARD, Fairview, Utah |