The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-16
Revision of Feeling Among
Buttermakcrs in
Minnesota
MEASURE TOO DRASTIC
Especially Unjust to Laborfng Man
commission Merchant Says
1T Means a Butter
less Age"

Ihere has been a revulsion Of feeling
on the part Of Gairymen and farmers Of
minnesota toward the oleo bill passed by
the senate last week, and while Mime
sofa backed the original bill heart and
soul, there is already an agitation FOR its
amendment or total defeat in the house,
Ihe butter interests of the state will Use
their influence to defeat the portion of
the bill which relates to renovated but
ter, and which in effect does away entire
ly with That article. A prominent mem
Der of the state dairy and food commits
sion says:
1.-The bill, if it becomes a law, will
prove considerable burden to the farm
ers OF Minnesota, Iowa, North and South
dakota and Nebraska in certain sections
for 1t will do away entirely with the
market for the low grades of dairy but
ter which they produce. Under the all
most pron1bitory license fee provided for
III the measure only very few firms can
engage In the manufacture of renovated
butter, and those who do so will have
pracucally monopoly of the business
Pack1ng stock and grease, which have
been profitable to the farmers this year
VIII De reduced to a very low basis in the
future and farmers will directly suffer
because there will be a limited market
for these goods and sales will be made
at loss
Injustice to Farmer.
A prominent commission dealer said
the other day:
THE bill as passed by the senate is an
injustice to both the laboring people and
the farmer. It is an injustice to the
Iaborlng man for the reason that he has
got to eat dairy or creamery extras,
and pay high prices for them or go with
out. 1t seems to me it will result in
the BUTTERFLIES age for the working peo-
pie OF this and other states. If all the
demand is confined to creamery and dairy
makes of butter the supply will not be
sufficient to meet the requirements. and
prices will go much higher than they
are at present, with the result that but
ter will soon become luxury, which
only Willie Vanderbilt and John Rookie
feller can enjoy.
This bill provides that butter cannot
be repacked unless the license for reno
waited butter is taken out and this will
prevent the utilization of over so rer
cent of the butter made in this stdte.
Some of it is so rank that 1t smells to
heaven when it is received and no
human being could eat it, Through rem
ovating and purifying it, it becomes as
butter, with the added advantage that it
can be sold at a moderate price. Very
few firm will be able to take out a
license to renOVate butter under this
law, and those who do will be obliged
to charge higher prices in order to get
their license money back. 1t seems to
me there will be more fraud under the
license law than ever before because
those who will sell renovated will be
obliged to represent it to be as good as
creamery in order to sell at profit
Dairy Commissioner Mcconnell was
quoted in The Clio b the other day
as expressing the belief that'the bill was
too drastic and would work great injus-
tice to farmers generally.
He says the injury to the farmer will
arise from the fact that he cannot sell a
large part of mis- production at anything
like fair prices, and instead of making
cheap butter at a profit, he will either
have to feed it to the hogs or make low
grade butter at a loss. All that the de-
partment has contended for is that reno
waited butter should be sold for what it
really is and not masquerade under the
guise of creamery butter.