The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-24
Important to Dairymen.

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have carefully watched the butter
markets of Ohio during the last few
years that the sales Of butter in our state
have been alarmingly curtailed and
as an inevitable result prices have been
distressingly low in our markets. 1t
is equally we'll known to all careful OBJ
servers that the condition of our but
ter market has been the natural result
of enormous sales of oleomargarine in
violation of law, thus crowding out
genuine butter. Prices have recently
been fairly satisfactory, but this has
been because of the exceedingly light
make of butter in Ohio and in the west.
Prices for butter would now be
decidedly higher than they are, if the
unlawful sale of oleomargarine had
been prevented.
The Ohio dairy Union was organized
in July last for the purpose of uniting
the dairy interests of the state in a
vigorous effort to secure the strict
enforcement of our oleomargarine law
This law forbids the coloring of oleo-
margarine. If oleomargarine be sold
in its natural color, it must be sold for
what it really is and consumers can
neither be deceived in the quality of
the article they buy nor defrauded in
the price they pay, This is all that
the Ohio Dairy Union demands and
this it will fight for until the law be so
generally and thoroughly enforced
that the imitation product can no long
er be sold as genuine butter.
A special committee representing
the Ohio Dairy Union has recently
visited Dairy and Food Commissioner
Blackburn at Columbus and arrang-
ments have been made for the vigor-
GUS enforcement of the oleomargarine
law against the great manufacturing
establishments at Columbus and Clev-
land, as well as against the 'bogIs
butter" in the markets of the state.
The annual meeting of Ohio Dairy
Union will be held at the Forest City
House in Cleveland on Tuesday, Dec
ember 7. Commissioner Blackburn
will be present and will in person re-
port progress and outline his plan for
future prosecutions. He will also ap-
point man whom the Ohio Dairy
Union will nominate whose sole duty
will be to take charge of prosecutions
of violators of our oleomargarine law.
Officers will be elected and committees
appointed for another year, and impor-
tant action will be taken looking to Il
organization throughout the
state and plans will be perfected for a
vigorous winters campaign. Arrange
ments will be made to have this sub
ject so important to dairymen discuss
ed at Farmers Institutes and by the
various branches of the Ohio Grange
in our state. This annual meeting is
n most important one and should deep
ly interest every dairyman in Ohio,
however small his dairy.
Membership fee for dairymen is only
so cents. The Union needs funds to
carry on its work successfully and it
needs members to advocate the cause
of pure butter in every city, town and
All dairymen are ur-
gently requested to join the Union
and attend the annual meeting.
The dairymen in this vicinity may
send names and fees to the undersign-
ed at Wellington or to F. A. Stranahan,
Secy., Cleveland. and certificates of
membership will be returned as prompt
ly as possible.
A long pull, strong pull and pull
is required. With hearty
cooperation on the part of the dairy
men Of the state, this hard fight will
be won and pure butter will be restor-
ed to its rightful place in the markets
of Ohio.
Dairymen, take days vacation and
attend this important meeting. Rem
ember time and place, Tuesday, Dec.
7th at Forest City House, Cleveland.
E, F, WEBSTER,
President Ohio Dairy Union.