The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-05

won't help the matter much How are you
going to tell who is selling it or not. You
know that we, dealers, dare not attempt it,
for supposing this law were passed, we of all
men would be watched the closest. There.
fore it might be too much trou BILE for us to
attempt to defraud. But how are you going
to prevent farmers selling oleomargarine?
You concede that it is almost impossible to
discriminate between the two. Suppose a
farmer wished to cheat, he can do so with
comparative ease. He brings his genuine
butter in for sale, and his regular Wednes-
day morning customers in this market buy
it of him-so far all right After that how
ever he is sharp enough to learn where the
secret places are, where he can obtain the
oleomargarine. He buys what he wants of
it, carries it bone, makes it up into nice
looking prints, and brings it here the fol-
lowing Wednesday and sells it as genuine
farm butter. Who can prove that he is de-
frauding Nobody in the world can do SO.
Who is going to follow him out to his farm?
He can buy the oleomargarine for Is or 20
cents, and he will undoubtedly sell it for
from 30 to 40 cents as real dairy butter. Who
can tell the difference The Wilmington
farmers are not definitely accused of doing
this at present. bu l mean to say that the
temptation is opened to them. Why, in
New York state. during last year, the report
to Congress states that 200, 000, 900 lbs of
genuine butter business was actually Mip.d
out of existence, displaced by oleomai gar
inc which now holds the trade Do You
doubt but the some influences are working
elsewhere and here in Wilmington also 1t
is the merest fatuity to doubt it. We are for
the dollars, every one ofus, be we Duchess or
Orange County dairymen of New York state
or Brandywine butter makers of Delaware.
I think that if this oleormargarine trade
did not exist here to-day in Wilmington
you could not get good genuine butter at any
time of the year in this market at less than
40 cents, and in winter time believe under
from 60 to rs cents.'
$50, then, you think it probable that we
Wilmingtonians have been eating oleomar-
garine all the past winter ?"
In reply to the above query the dealer in
dulged in most significant laugh.
Another dealer joining in the conversation
remarked, 'In New Castle County we make
the best butter in the country. This butter
might be salted and packed down for winter
use and then sold at an increase of 25 to 80
cents pound. But then whatever paying
price the genuine butter sellers quote their
goods at, they are liable to be undersold by
the oleomargarine men who can make pro
fit on their goods all the year round at is
cents This fact kills the farmers specula-
tion of picRliug butter.
1t was stated by Others that the butter
made nowadays is very careessly manipula-
ted, that it won't keep at all. even it put on
ice in cool cellar. 1t was added that the
farmers wives don't take the trouble they
used to twer ty years ago in making up their
! hnttar. It. won't last two walks nnear the
best care.
tive eaten packed butter twelvemouths
d,just as sweet as the day it was made, but
that was twenty years ago. Farmers don't
work up their butter as they used They are
too lazy, and the oleomargarine temptation
is too great and affords them an easier way
Of money making
Another dealer SAID, I'D rather use the
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York State but
ter sold here than the Is cent curb butter,
it's better color and gives more satisfac-
ton"