Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-03-25


some little excitement has been caused
anon. the wholesale dealers IN butter
from the fact that New York State but
ter has ranged much lower in the market
than Western butter, when on former
occasions the butter produced IN this State
has not only held It's own, bat has stood
higher in the estimation Of BUYERS
About 100000 pounds OF butter are
brouch, into this market every week. or
over lOO.O0O,000 pounds every year, and
Of that nearly 100000 pounds per week
are used for home consumption within the
radius of ten miles from New York, the
remainder being sold for southern trade
and export. State butter has ruled Us
low as fourteen cents per pound when
Western butter has commanded from
seventeen 90 twenty cents pcr pound. \
representative Of the Commercial called
on several butter dealers 90 ascertain the
cause Of the difference, and /; was found
that one Of the main causes was that
New York State butter makers failed 10
appreciate the wants OF the market. and
did up their packages In the same >,ylc
that was prevalent q quarter of a century
ago, while Western men. taking advan-
taCe Of the changes in taste, made up
their butter moro for sale than for use.
Il was acknowledged that State butter
had more nouuShmcnt In +, than Western
butter. but the fact still existed that h.
did not sell so well
One Of the principal features Of the
Western butter was that IL was sent fresh
20 market, and had the ojor and appear
ancc peculiar 90 fresh butter: while tEg
State farmers kept their butter In trkiu>
from October 60 the preSeu: time, and
then sent :, 90 market, The BUYERS buy
butter today more from the ojor and ap-
pcarancc than from the intrinsic qualities,
on the ground that their customer, Ike T.
a great deal better. I; was asserted by
some wholesale dealers that the manu-
facturc Of oleomarsarinc had done great
deal 90 reduce the price OF butter I'M the
wholesale market, and where. twelve
months ago. butter would have easily
realized about As cents per pound whole
sale. il Is with great difficulty that Ii Co
20 cents per pound can now b. obtained
for really good butter Trade Is often as
much secured today 10y the eve as through
the taste. and the STYLE Of the packages
has often as much to DO with the >alt a>
the quality of the goods contained therein.
The Western men apparently appreciate
this fact. and DO up their butter IN neat
packages which attract the eve. while
the butter-makcrs in New York State
continue 20 use the old style trkin, long
out Of date among bUyerS. One whole
sale dealer said be had now on hand
choice class Of New York State butter
. which should have been sold long ago.:
but as il was encaSed In the old S,vle mr.
kin. BUYERS would not look at IT, He
thought that if the farmers of this State
would only watch the progress of the
times and use the proper kinds Of butter
tubs, the lost trade might be recovered.
as the butter Was as much superior 90
Western as anything could be. The only
way, he believed, that the State could
recover Is prestige in the butter trade,
both for export and local consumption,
was for the farmers TO ship the butter
direc; 20 the market as soon as it was
made, and while the odor Of freshness
was upon It; otherwise the Western but
ter trade would soon drive the New York
State butter entirely out Of the market,
instead Of merely commanding a higher
price for the commodity. The commission
dealers say the farmers are TO blame for
the low prices which the butter now re-
ahzes. and which might be easily increaS-
ed by care on their part.-N. v. Com
mercial .idrtrtiser.