The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-06-16
agricultural department.
CONDUCTED BY ALBERT CHAPMAN.


home Tor ~ cents pouud, anu VINO
hears that fancy butter sells at Boston
for 80 cents to dollar pound, asks for
advics on the matter. The editor Of
that paper says in reply that there is
false Impression III the minds oil many
dairy farmers III regard ~ the iancy but
ter market Of oui large cities Almost
every agricultural orator who speaks Oh
dan, iarm;ug. iucutiuno the butter of
lew UaiIies that are kuO"D ~ sell at
prices rsugiug from seventy live cents IL
a dollar aud u quarter per pound, Mud
tries to make bis hearers believe that il
they would ouly swap otf their old scrubs
for pure Jerseys, aud adopt dill the mod
ern improvements Of deep setting, etc,
they too could obtain these big prices
Tor their butter Now this would all he
very well if it were true, which it is not.
We h"ve been :oId repeatedly OF late
that New York city is paying one dollar
and a quarter aud upward for butter
brough, from France, put up in sealed
cans like sardiues that Philadelphia
prints hrug Il dollar pound that Sar.
gent Of Brooklinc, Mass, sells his Jcr.
sey butter III Boston, az one dollar and a
quarter that Ogden farm cakes bring a
dollar. and thai several other dairies are
sold at seventy five ceu,s, which is true
.. Mr.. Sargent keeps but small
numler of COWS, and during the past
winter they have been mostly dry, SO that
some weeks less than six pounds have
been sent into the city This was for
marly sold for convenience, through a
butter dealer, but not real by him, as
Mr.. Sargent's customers were furnished
by Mr.. Sargent himself, who fixed the
price at S125 per pound. and paid the
dealer ten cents pound for delivering
it, We believe Of late Mr.. Hovey takes
the responsibility of its sale on himself.
Mr.. Sargent's hutter is undoubtedly good,
but not necessarily better than all other.
His imported cows, costing from FIVE
hundred to a thousand dollars apiece ;
his glass milk cans, and marble floors in
the dairy rooms. and above ALL his &C.
quaiutance and connections with certain
families of wealth and refinement in the
city, have as much Influence, perhaps, in
fixing the price of his butter, as does the
quality. We believe Mr.. Sargent claims
that his butter costs him all, or more
than it briggs. which claim We have nc
reason to doubt. Col. Warning gets the
next highest price-but pays a larger
commission for selling, as be has never
furnished the customers. His dairy has
been a long time gaining in reputation
and it has cost world OF hard work aud
mental anxiety to bring 1t 20 its present
position, Col Wariug has a very pleas
ant way of blowing his own horn, and
has the happy faculty Of keeping tn,
best foot forward. His butter is pu. ut
III good style, aud is delivered in gooc
shape aud condition duripg all kinds o
weather, but owing to the fact that tn,
proprietor's eye is often absent from til,
farm for weeks at time, while thu dair,
is unnsr the control OF breings who can
no, have the interest Of an owDer-,h,
1,slit has at times run down TO NOR
uyiny degree. Tue presence uf tht
uuuct. together vim such changes as
long Experience aud constant Sud, seem
to dictate. have always brought il vi
again so that the O + stamp p,obabl'
never stood better 10 Bo,tcn today Bu
how much butter ut this price do on
readers suppose the city Of Boston, will
its 250,000 inhabitants, CONSUMES 10
year? According to Col. Waring's state
ment in the Agrieulturist, it take, les
than forty.two pounds week to suppl,
this great city, his own surplus belu.
sold at titv cents per pound,
Or the exact number Of diaries which
sell at seventy.hve cents per pound
wholesale, during some portion Of th,
verr in the Boston market, we are not in
formed. but tank dUz n would coun
them ali. The fact IL, city people don
intend to throw away great deal 0
money, more than do country people ant
if they do occasionally make it'll
show, it is with wine or flowers, rattle
than with butter. I. is the uniformit
and reliability Of certain diaries that civ
them prominence in the market. Hun
dreds OF farmers could show nearly O
quite as good butter few weeks 10 tn
year as the most successful, but the
have not learned to have it good all tn
time. The quality is too much subiet
to the weather, and the quantity to tn
feed in the pastures. They dare nc
not warrant either for year. The
crowd their butter on the market Jus
when it is plenty everywhere, and wbe
it comes bad weather for making it. the
don't have any to sell, or if they do, it
so poor that nobody wants it.
At the present time, aud for more tina
year past, the market has been yer
sensibly affected by the financial trouble
Of the country People are more ec'
nomical 10 their expenditures, and a lu,
ury like butter is one Of the first thin.
to feel pressure in the money marke
At the same time there are hundreds
farmers in each of the butter.producir
States, who are trying their very bes.
compete for these fancy prices, and mat
of them are making really choice art
Gle, and are sending it along ia exccle
order. The few dealers in Boston wi
have established reputation for sellir
fancy butter, are continually pressed wi
applications to buy new and untried da
ries, nearly all of which they arc oblig,
to refuse A stranger without sampl
would be troubled to find dealer in wa
of new customers, aud with a SAMPLE
case might be still worse. Every dair
man and every dairywoman believes
or her butter is as good or little bett
than their neighbors, aud they are Oft
sadly Disappointed by the decision of Il
dealer. Reliable dealers will not ma
contracts for butter at any establish
price Tor the reascn. aud the contract
one who is not reliable, Of course. won
be- worthless if butter should fall. Afr
looking the matter over very CAREFUL
aud having had considerable exner'en