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TABLE 30.-Retail price and farmers' share: Butter and oleomargarine 1946–47, by

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Source: Compiled from Marketing and Transportation Situation, BAE, USDA.

The National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, March 3, 1948.

TABLE 31.-Regulations pertaining to oleomargarine: Specified foreign countries, 1946-47

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Manufacture and sale prohibited.

Imports prohibited.

4 Manufacture permitted only under emergency control law expiring July 1, 1948.

'Manufacture and sale prohibited.

Borax permitted.

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TABLE 32.-Regulations pertaining to oleomargarine-Specified foreign countries, 1946-47

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TABLE 33.-Regulations pertaining to oleomargarine-Specified foreign countries, 1946–47

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2 No specific regulations-registration with Department of Public Health required of all packaged foods.

3 Manufacture and importation prohibited.

Source: Compiled from reports of Foreign Service officers of the United States to the U. S. Department of Commerce. Some of the reports have been published in Industry
Reports, Fats and Oils, and World Trade in Commodities; others were consulted in the offices of the Foodstuffs Division, Office of International Trade, U. S. Department of
Commerce.
The National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, Mar. 3, 1948.

TABLE 34.-Violations of the oleomargarine law, number of violations, quantity and value of oleomargarine involved, and penalties collected, 1902-47

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1 "Several hundred thousand pounds."

Source: Compiled from reports of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
The National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, March 1948.

Mr. HOLMAN. I would like to file for the record a telegram which has come to me unsolicited from Mr. George F. White, president of the Louisiana Jersey Cattle and Dairy Association, opposing the pending legislation, and a letter from Mr. Gavin W. McKerrow, of Milwaukee, president and general manager of the Golden Guernsey Dairy Cooperative, which explains a much-discussed position taken by that association a few weeks ago.

I might say that the letter, which is brief, points out that there were two instead of one resolutions passed; that one resolution related only to the local affairs of the State of Wisconsin and the other resolution related to these bills before the committee. The position of the Golden Guernsey Dairy Cooperative is in opposition to the pending legislation. (The telegram and letter referred to are as follows:)

CHARLES W. HOLMAN,

HOMER, LA., March 9, 1948.

Secretary National Milk Producers Federation: Louisiana dairy farmers, breeders, and processors oppose Corbiett and similar bills and urge retention of such controls as will prevent infringement upon our products by uncontrolled use of yellow oleo by oleo interests to imitate butter. In the American way of fair play oleo interests must not be allowed to sell their product for something which protection of our industry by requiring that oleo be sold for what it is and not in imitation of a product of the dairy industry.

LOUISIANA JERSEY CATTLE AND DAIRY ASSOCIATION,
GEO. F. WHITE, President.

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