MARGARINE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 958, 27 October 1910, Page 8

MARGARINE.

; -.-ITS'STRUGGLE'IN i It is reported that the National Retail Grocers' Association, U.S.A., at its annualmeeting adopted ;a; resolution opposing the 10 cent' tax on oleomargarine. ' This is what the \ editor of the "New England, Grocer", says:—"We have always contended that bntterine is very much superior" to• poor or - even-, butter •of a medium, grade, and so, too, we would much rather'eat-bntterine, but even undqr such, circumstances .'■': we prefer to know what we'are buying, and what wo are eating.". ... '.-■■. \-'.' ■ On the other hand, "Hoard's Dairy-man"-says:—"This is all the manufacturers of butter ask, namely, that oleomargarine shall be" sold and;served as oleomargarine. "< It', is their, belief that, in order, to' accomplish this oleomargarine must be denied 'the right to be coloured yellow.' -It • can be' ■ sold ,in its natural colour or coloured pink- or green, but not yellow,.,for that is the trade mark of butter. , .'Oleomargarine that is artificially coloured yellow"is taxed 10 cents a.pound, and the natural ' coloured oleo- 1 margarine, only- one-fourth cent." i-. _;■ . - : \_ THE SHOW SEASON. ; A TABLE OF, DATES. ! The following is a list of dates of A. and P. Shows up till February next. Many South Island shows and some in the far north of this island are omitted:- ■. , October. 27.—Wairarapa and East Coast, at Carterton, , . November. 2-4.—Manawatu and West Coast, at Palmerston North; •' ' '■ 9-10. —Waikato, at Hamilton. '■-■-■ 9-11.—Canterbury, at Christchurch. 16-17.—Wanganui, at Wanganui. 22-23.—Marlborough, at Blenheim. 23-2-t. —Egmont, at Hawera. -.' 23-24—Otngo, at Dunedin. 29-30.—Nelson, at Richmond Park. 80-Dec. I.—Taranaki, at New Plymouth. December. - 7-8.-Stratford, at; Stratford. , -. / January. —.—Bush Districts, at Woodville. 22.—Eketahuna (Farmers' Union); ' '.' ' February. ''■• ' , I—Central Hawke's Bay, at Waipukurau; 1. Horowhenua, at Levin. 7-B.—Feilding, at Foilding. : B.—Danncvirke, at Danuevirke. 10-11.—Pahiatua-Akitio, at Pahiatua, 14.15.—Masterton, at Masterton.