Mr. Roberston: — I dare say, and let me say this, while on the subject of
grapes — I would not mention it otherwise — that I think there is a promising
opening for grape juice, unfermented, to drink with such things as Radnor Water
or ApoUinaris Water. No drink in warm weather is, in my opinion, more refresh-



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ing or so soothing as that. I have been trying to get our grape growers to go
into it, as they have done to a considerable extent in California.
DAIRY LEGISLATION.
Mr. Robertson was invited by the Committee to make a statement in regard
to Bill No. 83, introduced by Mr. Parmalee, intituled "An Act to prohibit im-
proper speculation in the sale of' butter and cheese," referred by the House of
Commons to the Committee on Agriculture.
(For copy of Bill here iiteired to, cide Appendix to ihis r port.)

Mr. Robertson said: — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: In offering some
evidence on the existing conditions of the cheese and butter business as this Bill
may affect it, I would like to say a few words in regard to the dairy legislation
that has been enacted. I think every one will assent to this proposition that ail
laws relating to commerce should aim at preventing fraud ; and in the second
place all such laws should aim to protect the public interest even if no fraud be
intended. Whether dealing in futures be fraudulent or otherwise, if it injures the
public interest I think it is a fit subject for such legislation as will prevent that.
