Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-09
THE oLEOmARGARINE LAW.

Dairy Commissioner Taeemss Rep0rt-
 Interesting statIstfcs-The Law En-
 forced Thoroughly-Efght Hundred
 Thousand Pounds of OIeomargartne
 Soldfn This State Last Year.
 The second annual report of Dairy Com missioner J. B. Tatem has been printed oy order of the legislature. It makes very neat pamphlet of about 100 pages. MT. Taten first quotes the statutes concerning imitation butter, and states that he made arrangements with the Experimental station at New Haven to make analysis of samples furnished by him, and to give the certificate necessary to the prosecution of cases under the law. He also caused Vice Director Jenkins of the Ex- pertinent station to appear and testify at the trials. Up to January 1, 1889, seventy cases had been brought for violation of the law. In 49 cases the defendants were found guilty and fined; cases were nolled on payment of costs, and in some cases of part of the fine; case was thrown out of court for insufficient complaint; in two cases the defendants were found not guilty, and several cases were un- settled on January l.
 After alludino to the beneficial results of the enforcement of the law, MT. Tatem de- scribes an ingenious device employed by some dealers, consisting of having tub half butter and half oleomargarine, the dealer selling one or the other, or both, as occasion dictates.
 The commissioner states that he is con- vinced that the law is now enforced ali over the State.
 The deputy collector of internal revenue estimates that 800, ,000 pounds of oleomar- garine were sold in Connecticut during the year 1888, or less than one-third the qusnti- ty sold in 1S96 MT. Tatem estimates that Alo lo;, af &ha o%o rAoaiua1 $400, ,000 during the year ending July 31, 1888, which they would net have received had the present law not been in operation.
 Adulterated samples of butter were ob tained from six stores and eleven boarding houses or restaurants in Hartford, and three storekeepers and nine restaurant or boarding house keepers were fined in the police court.
 In November, 1888, one manufacturer (Na- than of New Haven), two wholesalers (Batss and Dillon & Douglass, both of New Haven), and 1O4 retail dealers were paying United States oleomargarine licenses. The retailers Hartford 2, Bridgeport 5, Waterbury g, New London 4, Meriden 3, New Britain 3, and one or two each in many other places. The commissioner, with the assistance of Collec. tor Troup, feels confident of being able to put an entire stop to the peddling of olso- margarine, it being prohibited by United States law. He calls the attention of the
  Iio institutions of the State use oleomar- garine, with no advertisement of it's real character, in violation of the spirit of the law.
 N. I. Nathan & Go. of New Haven, the only manufacturers of oleomargarine in the State, made during 1888 one million pounds, 800, ,00O pounds of which were sold in the United States. Commissioner Tatem esti- mates that it would take 5000 COWS to pro- duce an equal quantity of butter, and that the dairyman's market for pure butter is re- duced $222, 300 by the marketing of this quantity of oleomargarine. The firm of Na- than & Go. have complied with the law in every respect.
 The report contains detailed statistics of the forty-five creameries and four cheese fac tories now in operation in the State. The value of butter produced by the creameries of the State has increased from $S80, ,224 in 1886 to &, ,364, ,709 in 1888.
 The office of dairy commissioner has proved aa1f- Rupnortin0