The progressive farmer., 1902-02-25


great. Unless the Post thinks we
are on the verge of the millennium, it
will have to abandon it's idea Of hav-
ing dealers sell oleo for Is cents,
when by calling it butter profits may
be quadrupled.
It is "oommon honesty" as the
Post says, that oleo shonld be 'sold
under it's own name, and there's no
way to have this common honesty
save by requiring that oleo and but.
ter shall each be sold in the natural
color of the larger part of the
product.
Finally, the Post seems to have
caught the contagion that has
afflicted some of our Southern Rep
resentatives who, we notice, have
gone into Mysteries over the great
loss that the cotton farmers would
suffer. destroy this industry,
says the Post-as if it would Ger
tainly be destroyed if oleo were
required to stand on it's merits and
get out of sleeps olothing-''de-
stroy this industry, as the measure
now pending would do if it should
become law and the severest blow
possible will be given to the value of
the cotton seed, certainly at this
| time"
Here again the Post has been
duped by some of the Solons who
have been sending out dOcu nents
bearing the familiar label, ''Part of
Congressional Record-FEee, trying
to bring Southern farmers to the
defense of the oleo fraud. Perhaps,
too, our contemporary has read the
testimony of the Charlotte oil man
who went before the House Commit
tee in 1900 and said that he supposed
that cotton seed oil composed 40 to
As per cent. of oleo. It must have
been the same man that made the
recent wild estimate of the proper
tion of the country's cotton seed oil
:
of fact, instead of containing 40 or
As per cent, less than one-twentieth
of pound of Oleo is cotton seed oil.
If the editor of the Post will get a
copy of his own paper bearing date
of May Is, 1900, he will find the
official report of the Internal Reve,
nue. Bureau as to the composition of
oleomargarine. That report shows
that in making Oleo practically two
pounds of salt are used for every
pound of cotton seed oil Cotton
seed oil only gives little flavoring,
and not so much of it as of salt is
used as favoring Yet these reck-
less oleo advocates have brought our
contemporary, paper of more than
average intelligence, to believe that
cotton seed prices would receive ''the
severest blow possible" in the pass
age of this Oleomargarine Bill.
We suppose this is enough, but if
the Post wants them, we can give
the figures prepared by so reliable
an authority as Gov. Hoard, of Wis
consin, showing that if the OleO in
dustry were wiped out of existence
the price of cotton seed would not be
diminished 1-25 of cent per bushel
As TO a decrease in price of beef
cattle, Prof. Emery exploded that
argument in his letter published in
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER three
weeks ago.
More might be said, but we hope
the Post will investigsAs further and
join US in standing for the develop
ment of dairy1ng in North Carolina
and for the common honesty" of
selling cleo for what it is.
We publish elsewhere in this mum.
Der the Posts reply to our editorial
of last week, for we believe it is bet
ter to give in full the argument of
ones opponent. If in this article
we have erred in any particular, we
shall be glad to make correction; for
we seek only the truth, by which, as
has been said, no right cause was
ever harmed
A dispaton In our news columns
this week reports that Marconi ex-
poets TO send a complete message
across the sea when he makes his
next experiment. He will do 80