Oleomargarine Author:United States Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: some of the physicists that it is within two points that they can determine the accuracy. Mr. Heflin. We want to break up this Butter Trust, if we can. Pro... more »f. Erb. Yes, sir; break it. We are with you on that proposition. Mr. Heflin. Do you think the enactment of this law will help to break it up? Prof. Erb. We disagree with you on that proposition. It is a matter of your own judgment. I think that is all I have to say. Thank you. gentlemen. STATEMENT OF PROF. T. C. ATKESON, REPRESENTING THE WEST VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, OF MORGANTOWN, W. VA. Mr. Hi'LL. I want to introduce to the committee Prof. Atkeson, of the West Virginia Agricultural College, and a member of the legislative committee of the National Grange. Prof. Atkeson. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, it has been my privilege on two or three other occasions to appear before this committee in behalf of some other matters, and I am going to promise you that I will not occupy very much time this morning. The experts have given their testimony as to this color problem. My relation to the whole matter is that of an impartial witness. In the first place, I am quite largely interested in agriculture in quite a broad sense; we are engaged in beef production, mutton production, and pork production, and I am a stockholder in the only successful creamery in my State, and my son happens to be manager of that business. I happen to be at this time professor of animal husbandry in our State university, and I have tried to consider this problem fairly, as has just been said by the gentleman who preceded me. from Ohio. There seems to be one point that is absolutely irreconcilable between the fanners and the dairymen and the general agricultural interests of the country and the manufacturers of o...« less