Mr. C£ague. What should be included in that exemption of 60
davs — -just butter, eggs, and poultry ?

Mr. KiLBOURNE. Anything that is perishable that is going on the
market. It should not be interfered with because it lias nothing
to do with the cold-storage business at all. The goods are simply
traveling toward the market. For instance, take the situation in
Wisconsin. There are about 400 creameries out there and every
one of them has an icebox that is lower than 45° F. They hold



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that butter for about a week until the refrigerator car comes along
and then they ship it on to the market. It may come into our store,
Weaver & Co., and it may be a little defective in flavor and also the
market may be very quiet. It will lay there for two or three weeks,
when finally the market picks up slightly and we sell it to anothei*
buyer in Boston. It takes five or six days then to ship it to Boston
and that man wants at least a couple weeks to move it after it gets
to Boston, and there you have six weeks.
Mr. Clarke. Are there laws now on the statute books of all the
States in which you operate that would prevent the selling of any of
this butter or any other product that is perishable, that has already
become infected. Are there not- such laws now ? •

Mr. KiLBOURNE. Yes; in practically all the States I deal in. You
mean pure-food laws.
Mr. Clarke. Yes. By ^^all the States,'' state just what States
that would include.
Mr. KiLBOURNE. The States east of the Mississippi and north of
the Ohio, directly east from Chicago.
