People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — A Bull Market. [ARTICLE]

A Bull Market.

Undoubtedly, there is less butter used now than common, on account of so many people being out of employment, but there are other causes that exist. One is the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. According to the official figures of the revenue department, there was manufactured in 1893, 67,-000,909 pounds. That means a displacement of just that amount of genuine butter. It takes the place of 440,666 dairy cows. If you allow 15 cows to the herd it draws out of employ ment 20,777 farme rs.