. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 14 ®he gveebcv mtfr ^pcvisman [February 14, 1903 Urged to Use Coloring Matter. The following official circular, headed ' Important Notice to Butter Producers," has been issued by the State Dairy Bureau of California: Bee of the State Bureau, 114 ruin street. San Francisco, January The new oleomargarine law enacted by Congress, which went into effect on July 1, 1902, imposes a tax of 10 a pound on all oleomargarine in which artificial coloring matter has been to produce in it the yellow shade of butter. On oleomargarine in which no such c >l
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 14 ®he gveebcv mtfr ^pcvisman [February 14, 1903 Urged to Use Coloring Matter. The following official circular, headed ' Important Notice to Butter Producers," has been issued by the State Dairy Bureau of California: Bee of the State Bureau, 114 ruin street. San Francisco, January The new oleomargarine law enacted by Congress, which went into effect on July 1, 1902, imposes a tax of 10 a pound on all oleomargarine in which artificial coloring matter has been to produce in it the yellow shade of butter. On oleomargarine in which no such c >lor is used the tax is only one- fourth of a cent a pound. The 10-cent tax practically prohibits the manufacture 0ta,,; lored oleomargarine and has driven the makers to producing a cl ise of goods on which they need pay only the one-fourth of a cent a pound tax. Such oleomargarine is entirely white or else has a Bbade slightly resembling the yellow in butter, caused by using certain fats that impart this color or by treating the otherwise colorless fats in a manner that will impart a slight shade to their product resembling nat- ural butter. The oleomargarine pro- ducers are trying every effort to produce a yellow product that will not be subject to the 10-cent tax, but 30 far their efforts, while success ul in securing the desired color, produces a very poor quality of oleomargarine. Therefore they are com- pelled to confine their business to a low- colored article. During the past month, agents for East- ern oleomargarine producers have taken out licenses to sell this uncolored (as they call it) oleomargarine in California, being Vhe first serious effort that has been m de for some years to dispose of the product here. Samples of this class of goods that have been examined by the State Dairy Bureau, while very low in color, are no more so than much of the butter that ap- pears on the market, the standard for color having been reduced to almost white- ness among a great deal o
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