The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-02
SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1877.
Good Butter.

One of the troubles in all cities,
at all seasons of the year, for house.
keepers, is to obtain nice, we'll made
and yellow butter, and they are will
ing to give Clancy" prices for just
such an article as can be had in Gar
rett county, if our people will only
"give their mind' to producing their
very best. AS the warm season
comes around each family has the
rarest opportunity to advertise the
excellence of its make and find Gus
toner for all they can produce, at
fancy" prices, if they choose to
make the right sort. They can just
as we'll obtain % to 80 cents per
pound for their dairy products as to
sell it to the stores at Is to 20, and
take it out in goods. The storekeep-
ers themselves would be glad to see
the trade take this direction, as they
would avoid much trouble at no prof
it, if the Garrett county housekeep-
ers should receive orders from the
city visitors for all the fall and win
ter butter they may have to sell.
The hotels and floating population
from now till October take up our
surplus butter, and if, as we suggest,
our people would make the quality
of their dairy products known to the
visitors who throng our county, and
from them take orders for what they
may have to spare, they would dis
pose of their products at full prices
and have sure market always at
their doors.
But our people must bear in mind
that an article inferior in any partic-
sular would not be received, and
would injure not only themselves,
but their neighbors, and we write
this in their interest, to caution them
that cleanliness and thoroughness are
= altogether essential. The butter that
has about it the slightest suspicion of
"a want of thoroughness or cleanliness
will not bring cost of producing,
while that which answers every req
uisite of prime article will always
find customers at full prices. Our
farmers ought to indulge in gener-
''ous rivalry as to whose wife or daugh-
tier could produce the finest butter.
They should fix up the spring houses
with every appliance that can aid
ihem in making the butter easily
iand well, and take pride in procuring
flor their farms and households the
reputation of the "best butter in the
county" Give them good cows and
lgood stables to feed them in, as also
to milk them. At once provide warm
quarters for the coming winter, where
they can be fed and MIXED and cared
for without exposure to snow and
severe cold, and in time you will dis
cover that you have gold mine on
your place as sure, if not as abundant
in its yield, as any in California.
Keep your cows housed and warm in
winter and they will yield manure
ITO fatten your acres that will in time
give you hay and pasture and so that
not a week in the year need go by
that you will not have sure money
reseNsae from the product, that will
pay yaar taxes and provide food and
raiment for your family.
TO besuceesSful we must be syste-
matte and thoroughgoing in all the
details of farming operations. AL
ways aina to constantly improve in
everything We do, and as surely as
we do this with the dairy products of
our farms, we SHALL open a bank that
will never fail to pay a satisfactory
dividend. ...........