Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-09
COlOring BnttGr.

COl0ring Butter.
We printed two weeks ago, "Dots dot
tngs on Mr.. Bliss. We have always in
sisted that we had the best compostors
that ever set type, but when we wrote that
Dot " was as sharp and intent on bust
ness as a-Somethjng in August, they
ought to have known it should be wasp,
though the copy might look like wash,
which was the way they printed it.
This week we give Mr.. Bliss reply, also
little waspish. Now if we could hear
from some one Of the hundreds of men
who pirate in more lady-like terms rs ear
nestly as Dot does" against coloring
butter, who buy it, color it, repack it and
put on the market with the inference that
tits uncolored the literature on the question
of co]oring hutter would be tolerably full
EDS. FARMER:-I have read Dots "
letter in the Farmer of the 14th inst, and
while decline To enter the list for per-
sonal contest with one whose use of cpl
lhets and innuendoes, to put the matter
very mildly, is sadly in contrast with her
claim to the treatment due lady, do
feel it due 10 myself and The masses of
honest producers of butter and cheese to
answer some of her false pleading.
In the first place stand firmly by my
statement which she so scornfuly quotes
| know hundreds Of men who persistently
preach and prate as earnestly as does
d" Dot" though generally in more lady
like terms, against coloring butter, who
when they have bought it, Immediately
color and re-pack it and put it upon the
market. leaving those who know their
public record to infer it is uncolored. 1t
is to do away with this system of giving
this profitable business to set of middle
men, instead of the farmers themselves,
that | advocate the practice Of honestly
and openly coloring butter, and putting it
upon the market In IL flushed condition at
the start. The fact is established past II
peradventure that the public will have COL
ored butter, and every effort of " Dot and
her coadjutors, or co-agitators. is only II
help to that class who profit by keeping
the farmers in Ignorance of their true in
terest. She pirates furiorsly about fraud
and deception. do not know Of anybody
who has counseled either fraud or decep-
ton but herself. | never advise any man
or woman to color butter for the purpose
of deceivng either the buyer or the con
sumner; but do advise them to color it so
as to put it on the market in such co =
dition that another may not, by improving
its appearance. get the whole profit upon
it, while they who have had all the labor
and care of production are unable to get
first cost. 1t is not necessary, as " Dot y
inSnuates, for any butter maker to lie
about his coloring his butter, or in any
other way to evade the question whether
his butter is colored OF not. The sooner
we come to treat this subject openly, hon.
eslly and fairly, the better it will be for all
PARTIES Interested, except those who make
their money by buying uncolored butter
and then coloring it; the whole race Of
eroakers to the contrary Notwithstanding
cannot undertake 10 ray what may or
may MOI have been The cause of dots -
friends being compelled to cal spoon Wet
GalS after exiting newly colorrd cheese.
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' n Vi vno ot''In "Se' ior color'nS lnG
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m m0, -, II ane.e .'' s netn, rs 10y sus-
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no .,; upo" tae o'ly P"ltion o. t"e lhl'k;
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any,; !. wo"'u u"Te passed Oh IN me whey
u 'ol no ,Pl ''Ss.o'e injury 10 ANYBODY ne
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