Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-21
for the little or nothing which he has to
endure in cost, labor and risk.

endure in cost, labor and risk.
The gentleman's ougaboo, that cream
becomes SO outrageously attenuated in
fall may do for an explanation when no
better is at hand. If his patrons be-
lieve it, it viii serve his purpose for the
present season, (they can test it till
fall) and by next year he may be able to
conjure up some other plan to befog the
farmers for another season.
We have silver dollar to bet with
the gentleman, that gauge of cream
from a Fairlamb can will make good
strong pound of butter, either in Sep
TENDER or October.
But he makes one assertion, which to
us seems to us like very scroggy arti-
Gle of truth. He says that creamery
run on the Fairlamb basis, SIS loser
every time" Isn't that the basis he is
running on? He has furnished a costly
building, costly machinery, costly wag-
ons and costly drivers, and after all
this labor, time and money expended,
he is absolutely certain to ..gain loss -
He knows it beforehand it can't be 9TH
erwise, he says.
Does any honest farmer in Grant
county believe thisp or that he believes
itP Why, of course, my fellow farmers,
it must be SO. The gentleman" is
made of the same kind of sand as the
lad who chopped the cherry tree, and
consequently, therefore. etc. He is a
great philanthropist. He furnishes a
costly building, machinery, etc., gath
ers your cream, makes it into butter.
and gives you all the profit and part of
the principle. George Peabody was a
great philanthropist, but a greater than
Peabody is here. John Howard was a
great philanthropist, but behold
greater than Howard is here.
He has been talking with the Oar
lington creamery-man, and learns that
in two seasons he paid for 1000. more
gauges of cream than he made pounds
of butter. We have just been reading
of Fairlamb creamery in Massachu-
sets, which made 5000 pounds of but
ter from 1900 gauges of cream. Com
pare the two. He says, IF your cor
respondent will take the pains to read
up little" Read up whatp A cream
cry mans defense of creamery man?
Wouldn't it be just as well to test the
matter right here at homer He in
forms us that many creameries are now
taking cream, and paying for it accord
ing to the amount of butter it contains.
That is right; and when the gentleman
adopts that system, if he tests the cream
fairly, and pays what it Is worth, we
will sell him what little we have to
spare.
And now, gentlemen, don't let your
cart get before the horse again. Ifyou
had treated us as gentlemen in your ar
ticle, as we have treated you in ours,
this would not have appeared. We
asked for fish, and you gave us a
bull-head and scorpion; just please re-
member, hereafter, that vinegar never
catches flies.' In the littleness of your
shrunken souls, you cast slur at the
Mt. Hope creamery, by insinuating that
it is not on very firm basis, failing
concern. 1t may be as firmly based as
your own. All creameries must event
ually fail, according to your theory.
We aver that the proprietors of the Mt.
Hope creamery, are as fair and honora-
BILE, as the proprietors of the Lancas-
ter concern" and when the great as
sizes are past, we doubt not that they
will sit down with Abraham and Isaac
and Jacob in the kingdom; but it is pos
sible that "other parties may have to
sit with the applegraft and lightning
rod men. GEORGE SPALATIN.