Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-09

Once More That miserable Butter.''
Mr.. EDITOR: 1 did not suppose
when I frat preached this question
that such stir would be produced and
that so many bristIing pens would be
aroused. Precisely the effect has fol-
lowed that desired-agitation If by
this means we can bring about radi-
cal revolution in butter making so
much the better. We have eminentIy
butter region and if our butter is not
number one the fault must lie at the
doors of our farmers wives and
through the negligence of their hus-
bands in not providing comfortable
housing for their cows and plenty of
nutritious food for them TO eat.
Ralph" one of your strong cores
| pOndents aud who does everything
With rush, still disagrees with me
| about some trifiing matters that we
need not quarrel over. He substan-
TALLY acknowledges what [ have all
along asserted anu maintained. that the
most of the butter coming TO This mar
ket is quite naueeatipg, but is disposed
to lay the blame on prOprietOrs of
boarding houses, consumers and gro.
Gerry dealers. concerning whom he is
bold enough to use some harsh If not
unbecoiniBg language. For example,
he says: 1.-THE experiment proves
cOnclusively that consumers in this |
city generally want the cheap and |
rancid butter" Abiding to the pro-
prietors of boarding houses, he has |
butter") because the older and meaner |
it is; the less il takes to do" and, " it'll |
regard to the grocery dealers, he is still
more emphatic when he remarks:
The truth is, you may enter these
grocery stores when you please and
cal! for butter aud no matter what
kind of an article they have, it is
always, 10 use their own language
the best quality, and just from the
country" When he essays to lecture
me to cease my censuring" the but
ter makers aud suggests that 'tthe
complaints aud anathemas (curses) of
brawIeTs and sticklers. are not likely to
be very edIfylDg or probable to
the people," L an' tempted TO retort
by requesting him TO pull the beam out
of his own eye aud then he may get
the mote cut of mine. | have ntver
been guilty of the discOurtesy towards
butter makers that he has towards
Of boarding houses, city
cou-umers and grocery dealers HIS
language is rude, iIl-timed and not !
warranted by the facts, as he must
himself confess if he viii think
moment. He imputes TO all these
classes the very lowest, if not the
m 81 degrading motives, aud If they
DO not protest against 50 free d use OF
their good names shall be astonished. !
But these terrific illusions mean
sOmethlng else if tuey mean anyt HUG.
They mean that butter manufacturers, l
convinced of the correctness of his eX /
traUTdinaTy position concerning these f
r pulable classes, deem il unnecessary q
u make a good article of butter for
our market, as the great body of our
consumers prefer rancid butter" be. C
cause il takes less to DO. Hence, they
take no pains to put their butter in
proper order, as the mean article Will
sell more readily than the good one.
Ii our Z sUniry cousins are controlled
by such q halluciuation, the sooner
they get rid of it the better If they
.uppJse the pTOprieloTs Of our leading
houses, our consumers generally, and
ur grocery dealers prefer cheap and
-ar cid butter" because it viii take
ess TO do, " they are WOfuliy deceived.
Jar citizens know what good butter h
$, aud thsy are always on the hunt for I
t. GO 10 our grocery dealers, and they
viii tell you so. they are fac
Judges of butter, and are willing 10
1sJ fair price iur it. Ralph" does
le.ii cruel lhjuslIce when he repre-
-ujs tUesl a. looking around fer D
cheap aud rancid" article, because
I wils 60 f3r her in the Process of con- q
umptIun.
/ 1 have characterized the most Of
he butter coming to this market as
cry iufeIior, L nave simply uttered
he truth and now TeittTate il with
ug;u=nled emf basis. l do not deny 81
haI there Is vast quantity of most
XczIleut butter made in the country,
ucn rs would do credit to any market,
at the most OF il goes into private
antilles. This shows, however, What
ur butter makers are capable of doing
they would try. Is
Ralph" thinks [ ought to tell how
D make butter, aud cease my CONS va
!alnts Ii is not my business, even 81,
/ 4 were competent, 10 impart in
tructiOn on this subject. Let butter III
makers take counsel Of their own good
euse aud of their selfInteresJ and
ney will not be long in learning how
D make il. Many of them Know more
.Iau tEey practice.
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