. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. called, would not sell on its own merits. The publi cwas mistaken. No better legislation for the manufactureof butterine could have been enacted than that whichprohibited the sale of oleomargarine under the name ofbutter. The manufacturer had an article of which hehad no reason to be ashamed,and the noise of special leg-islation against his product served to advertise its mer-its, to his great advantage. Indeed, so far has the preju-dice against butterine been overcome since then,that at OF TH
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. called, would not sell on its own merits. The publi cwas mistaken. No better legislation for the manufactureof butterine could have been enacted than that whichprohibited the sale of oleomargarine under the name ofbutter. The manufacturer had an article of which hehad no reason to be ashamed,and the noise of special leg-islation against his product served to advertise its mer-its, to his great advantage. Indeed, so far has the preju-dice against butterine been overcome since then,that at OF THE UNION STOCKYARDS 247 a recent state fair at Mansfield, Ohio,butterine contestedwith Jersey butter for the blue ribbon, and won. Although butterine is the name generally used to des-ignate this product, it is possible that in the nearfuture oleomargarine will be the name seen on thepackages of butterine, it having been recently urged bythe opponents of butterine, and agreed to by the gov-ernment, that butterine is a name calculated to deceivethe public into taking it for a product of the dairy,. WEIGHING BUTTERINE. especially as a cow is frequently used as a will in no wise injure the butterine trade, how-ever, for the words oleomargarine and butterine havelong been accepted as synonymous by the general pub-lic, thanks to the extensive advertising afforded by ad-verse legislation. So the only result will be to banishthe euphonious word butterine from the language, andgive the gentle Jersey a chance to withdraw from lendingher countenance to a product for which she is in nowise responsible.
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