The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-02-07
cream can be easily detected, and its in-
furious effects mast be obvious.
Sailing.

cream can be easily detected, and its in-
furious effects mast be obvious.
Sailing.
Another important requisite, is the APP
plication Of uniform amount Of pure
salt. This cannot be done without weigh
ing both the salt and butter. The failure
to do this, and to adopt uniform rule
forThis purpose among producers, is one
great source of the want of uniformity in
our butter. And if those scales which
are manufactured so extensively in this
State, were brought into more general
use for this purpose, it would result in a
great improvement in this respect.
MARKETING.
The subject Of marketing, has not yet
received that attention which its import
ance demands. The common practice by
which our butter is permitted to pass
through the hands of SO many middle
men, before it reaches the consumer, is
decidedly injurious to the :ntrests OF the
producer. Butter is often sold to country
dealers, who buy for wholesale houses,
who in turn sell to retailers, and these
again to the consumers. The evil effects
of this practice, are not confined to the
deduction of reasonable commissions, by
the various parties. for their unnecessary
labor. But by removing the consumer,
so far from the producer, it gives these
dealers chance to speculate, especially
upon the best grades, which they seldom
fail to improve. Those who make the
best article, uniformly suffer in this
manner, much greater proportionate
loss, than those who make the opposite
quality. By this practice, the producer
seldom knows, what the consumer is oblig-
ed to pay for the wares he sells, and con-
sequently, has no means by which he can
judge correctly with regard to the true
value of his goods.
| am aware, that we can not wholly
dispense with the services of middle men,
but if we do employ them, we should
obviously adopt that method, by which
we can realize as nearly as possible, the
price paid for our wares by the consumer
This can best be accomplished by consign-
ing TO commission houses, who sell direct
ly to the consumer.
But it is undoubtedly the best policy
for the producer, to himself sell directly
to the consumer when practicable. This
for the man who uniformly makes good
article, is usually an easy matter. There
is no article of food about which people
are more fastidious in their tastes, or
have more reason to be, than concerning
the butter they eat. Like charity, a
little butter may cover multitude OF
sins," and still preserve a fair exterior.
Thousands of wealthy families scattered
over the land, especially in and near our
large cities and villages, would gladly
make arrangements with producers, in
the parity and excellence Of whose butter
they can have confidence to supply them
at price per h., much higher than they
would be willing to pay for the same
article even, if procured in the market,
and the manufacturer, and his reputation
for the excellence of his products, unknown
to them.
A well earned reputation Of this ma
ture, as have before intimated, should
be source of great pecuniary profit to
its possessors, and can thus be easily made
50, to the mutual satisfaction of both
parties.
EXTENSION OF OUR MARKET.
1t is q matter of anxiety with some,
least the future demand for our dairy
products, may not keep pace with the
supply. But l apprehend that the en-.
terprising dairymen, need have no fear of
this. The adoption Of more rational
mode of practice will 60 far to counter.
act, and may doubtless overbalance, any
depreciation in the price Of good butter
which will be liable to occur. Ifpresent
profits are satisfactory they may be made
by these means to continue SO, even if the
price per pound is much less than at pre-.
sent.
If by any means, the products per COW
Of any dairy are doubled, while the cos,
of production is not increased, the profits
will remain the same if but one half the
price per pound is received for those pro-
ducts. 1t is my opinion, that many o.
our diaries do not produce per COW, upor
an average, more than 125 pounds of but
ter per year. While no dairyman should
rest satisfied until those products of hi
dairy, reach more than 200 pounds, -
With such an increase in amount, and the
improvement in quality, with like de
crease in cost of manufacture, which may
be made with improved facilities, the
owners of such diaries can afford to sci
their butter for less than one-half a.
much per pound as they would now receive
for the same quality. The best dairymer
among us, have thus a wide margin, by
which to counterfeit any depreciation il
market value.
If the price is reduced, and the quail
ity improved the demand and consump
ton will be increased, and our marke
extended. We have already witnessed
the practical workings of this principle tt
some extent, in connection with oul
cheese products. BY the introduction o
the factory system, and the improvement
in quality resulting therefrom, our mar
ket has been extended sufficiently, t.
counterfeit the greatly increased produc
tion, without any serious decrease in price
A valuable foreign trade has thus sprun,
up, which returns us the solid cash, O
its equivalent, for our surplus productions
When the same intelligent enterprise, shal
have perfected the art Of butter maxim,
among US, may we not reasonably hope
that the results will be the same?
We are told, that the better classes il
London now draw their supplies of but
ter from the continent That they wil
hare the best at any cost, and why can w
not supply them A? Ought not the dairyme
Of free Vermont, if they will but properl
improve those intellectual and physical ad
vantages, which they possess over the or