The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-04-12
Grumblinr Dairyne..


are short we complain of scarcity; If
abundant, we complain of low prices.
The poor complain of the burden Of
labor; the rich, of the burdens of wealth.
We sre only content one day in year.
On the Fourth of July we are the great
est, the most intelligent, the most virtu-
ors, and the hsppiest people the world
ever swung around its axis; but, unfor-
tunately, the very next day we lapse into
the accustomed channels of fault Finding
and discomfort In respect to being sat
isisd, dairymen are no exception to the
general rule. They are never satisfied
with price, let them be high or low. but
are always trying to crowd them y little
higher When they see one-third of the
cheese made in the country going abroad
for market, they complain because the
home market does not call for all, or
more than all. we make. A home con-
sumption which would swallow up the
whole crop yearly is looked upon by
cheese producers rs a paradise which
would make them supremely happy. But
If this were attained there would undoubt-
edly still be something wrong. .'Man
never Is, but always 60 be, blest-" Turn
ing to the butter men, we find them
making complaints exactly the reverse
They sigh for afcreignmarket when they
have the best home market in the world.
They are selling fine butter IN all the
large cities At Wholesale and in carload
lots fer forty-fiye TO Fifty cents q pound,
when Just as good butter made in Ireland,
England, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark.
Holland and France, II we can credit the
quotations OF the Hodgson Bros.
Of Liverpool, As they appear in the
A. rfxT~ ~ \
only bring in that city from
thirty-two to thirty-five cents q
pound. A corresponding difference in
prices here and there has existed for
Years, In favor Of American prices for
fine butter. Prices are higher here than
they are IN England, not because it costs
more to make butter here than there, but
because we do not make. and have not
for . long timem made, good butter enough
to satisfy the wants of our own people;
and il is, and has for many years, been
high from sheer scarcity. We are uu-
doubtedly the greatest butter-eating peo-
plc on the globe. We consume all our
good butter and nearly All our poor. Our
annual exports amount to twenty-five or
thirty millions, which is but little more
than two per cent Of the total make;
and this is all taken from third rate or
low grAdes- Our annual consumption
Is twcnty-fy pounds per capita for our
city millions of population, and we
should consume much larger amount
stili If il could be sold rs near the cost of
production as bed, pork. grain, and
other necessaxies Of life. The actual
cost Of producing butter should not vary
mnch from that Of beef A given guam
tity of grass. or other good cattle food,
= A. - Il
duce IS many pounds Of butter rs it
would of beef, if fed to frst-class bull
locks. So many inferior COWS are en-
ployed in butter-makine thai, practically,
this rule does not hold. good buhockz
being in larger supply than good butter
COWS; but the differences in original cost
Is not 50 wide 1t Is nothing like the
difference in selling prices. which are
now as twelve. cents 70 fifty cents. 1t
costs something to manufacture butter;
but with the improved methods of max
inc. the sweet skim milk can be util-
ized to cancel that expense Judged
bv its necessary cost, butter is opt OF AL
proportion with other common articles
of foed. 1t ought 70 be made here
Tor les than il can be in the countries
riust named. Our country Is filing up
with tie best butter stock in the world,
md our land Il Ech and cheap Its
vzlne 4 probably not more than twenty
s,er cent. Of The land which supplies but
txt Liverpool and London In times
Ike thase. we ought to be able 70 furnish
g froru ten to fifteen cents less per pound
than our European competitors, but we
are selling from ten to fifteen cents more.
Wifh buffer thus abnormaliy high, our
butter men, having the characteristic un-
essiness Of humanity, are clamoring for
N export trade in butter proportionate
"a 49, IN cheese. The demand Is ridicu-
lous In the extreme. but 1t u earnestly
presped. Persistent efforts. ss unreason--
ab5s IS the demand IS foolish. are being
made to annihilate oleoAargar1ne to give
room for exporting butter Legislators,
bokh State and HatsonAl, are lmPortnnea
70 intsxssre with the declared purpcoe o.
crushing ont one to protect the ocasr,
ax,inst An anticipated comPeuuon- Inc
present prices OF butter Demon
strats that no serious conPesnen mas yes
- fr,Se uaakes fhe whole action in ref
~r.rce 10 fbe necessity q protecting but
- - nrpu,ofinr its exportAtion appear
-@.,-,j - ifs fsce- Before an export
f-.5s c.n b. carried On proftabiy. or TO
- ro..;derahle extent. the Prscc o.
butter IN the United States must be re-
dnoed far enough below that aDroea 70
admit Of profit for handing aa.sr pay
ine fseixh< and other charge e'oJ -.
re3uc6;on =, shove Al things Juss "ns'
bul1sr producers don't want ou. ia
e2gy u5ortsRs want sorne<hlng 70 @@ @@
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