People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — DRIVES OUT BUTTER [ARTICLE]

DRIVES OUT BUTTER

War to He Made on British Dealers Uho Sell Olcomargine for Hutter. London, April 3.—The Butter association—a syndicate of merchants interested in the foreign butter trade—has raised a fund of $20,000 for the purpose of conducting ;> vigorous campaign against retail traders throughput the i country who make it a business of selling oleomargarine as pure butter. The ' officers of the association say they have | no antagonism to the American prod- ■ uct, when sold openly and above board, j and object only to its being palmed off as the simon-pure product of the dairy. It is a remari r -le tact that the competition of American oleomargarine and Australian dairy butter has literally ' driven English butter out of the whole- . sale market, and for months past no quotations upon the home product have i been obtainable. Official figures show , that for the six months ending March 1 75,000 tons of oleomargarine and butter ' were imported into the country.