The Saline County journal., 1872-12-26

What kind ofaD editorial = this to bel
you ~ oncc inquire. We want 70 ia-
form our readers At tho outset that this
butter question 10 . serious one
when it assumes the dimensions Of
bread and butter. Moro than two years
ago We were making . trip over that
splendid new road, the Missouri River,
Fort Scott and Gulf. We overheard .
conversation between two passengers.
They were from the land ato the north
Of u.s." One was going to Southern
Kansas to look ut the country. The
other had brought q consignment Of
butter from Wisconsin, and had sold it
at profit at Baxter Springs. We Won
dcred If it could be possible that Chero-
kee county, fine cattle grazing county
did not produce its own butter,
enough, at least, to supply the home
CONSUMPTION. We had some irrcveren,
thought about tho kind of farming they
did down that way, bnt held our ,eace.
.i::nee thon VIC have heard Of trans
action in corn meal. 1t was taken to
Kansas City ard sold tor so cents a
bushel. 4 Lawrence merchant bought
It Tor 65 cents and brought it home and
sold it for si..5 bushel. The idea Ot
such transaction being possible in the
Wakarusa bottom, where, with the
greatest vigilance, corn cannot be kept
from growing fro.l ten to seventeen
feet high, seemed pre-. Osterous. Bat
like the Dutcbman, s'Thc longer We lives
&c more We finds, BY toonJer, out"
II has come to our knowledge within
day Or two that . prominent grocer in
thi. city is now supplying his customers
with butter manufactured in Ohio. Let
us see how it gets here. First, it is
bought in tho country towns in that
State and shipped to Cincinnati. Tho
st. Louis merchant next buys Of the
Cincinnati commission house: and he in
tarn sells it to the Lawrence grocery
man. And he sells it ut profit in CON-
petition with Douglas county butter.
The Ohio farmer has to pay from $50 to
Sl0O an acre tor his farm, and then
scratch among the beech roots to raise
tama grass 10 feed his cows. The Kan
sas farmer pays from $40 to $50 an acre
for his farm, and grass is SO abundant
tina; he has to burn it every Fall to got
it out Of the way. And yet Ohio sends
butter here and sells it at aprotit.
Is there no lesson in these facts t.
Kansas farmers? This foreign demand
for butter is not a fattering commentary
on the farming industries of this coun-
t-y. It is incxc 'sab.e negligence. 1t
a shamful waste OF tho means Of
wealth that lie at every mans door.
Those who have cows and care for them
can realize good prices the year round
for their butter. There is i market for
it at their doors. The supply of this
county with butter from the home
market would do something towards re
lic:ins the strain for n oney. And this
sending money to Ohio for sutter Isl a
fac: that we ere absolutely ashamed to
publish. There is t.is compeDsation;-
we get good article in return. No
wonder that the farmers here who
attend strictly t. business are getting
rich.
w have heard it said that in Texas,
with thousand of cows in sight, it is al
mos; impossible to Get u drink Of milk
ora taste Of good butter. There is no
excuse for this lack of home supply in
Kansas. 1t is inexcsSa3!e tO neglect tO
use the means Of wealth At ercry farm.
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