Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-08

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mourn the most is my Matchbox
| Edith johnson, in -Harper's Bazaar.
low Butter May Compete with Ole,-
| - margarine.aIa5 -f.. 49,
/ The question of supplying the de
;mand Of the country for good, pure but.-
| ter is eertainlysone worth the attentie n
of every farmer and buttermaker in tt e
| land. Dairymen and all classes of but
ter-producers may continue to rail
| against butterine, ,oleomargarine, tr
any of the compounds which are manu-
featured and sold in lieu of genuiIe
|. butter, but with no avail until the Y
come lseuarelys into competition with
| the manufacturers of these COMPOUNDS
| by making and putting into. the ma :
|. kets a superior article Oleomargaripe
| finds ready sale, more because it IS
really better asan article of food--an i
Heaven knows it is bad enough--than
| three fourths of the so-called county
butter. The amount of buffer of this
latter class, and which is made hy
farmers, outside Of regular dairy farms,
is enormous. The final market for the
greater part, of this is the large citie:.
An examination into the treatment it IS
subjected to, through its various STACEY
of production, and until it reaches tho
| table of the citvn consumer, often hun
dreds of miles away from the point Of
manufacture, may throw some light On
the question why it pays to manufa :
ture oleomargarine. First, from tie
farm it goes to the country stores,
where as rule, good, bad and indif-
ferent are dumped promiscuously into,
sometimes tubs, but often old shoe
boxes; and at any rate, whatever may
be the receptacle, it is too frequently
sinking and rancid to that degree that
good butter put therein is no longer good.
Herein lies great evil, The country
dealer seldom thinks of grading his but
ter. He generally pays the same price
for whatever comes in on the same day,
regardless of whether it is good or bad.
When bought it. as stated. all goes to-
gether to assist the accumulation of a
sufficient quantity for shipment. During
this time it is not infrequently kept in a
cellar, poorly ventilated, and reeking
with poisonous gases escaping from
decaying vegetables, which are seldom
absent in the average country store
keepers cellar. Is it any wonder that
city people, as rule, have not a very
good opinion Of what is often sold as
fresh country butter:?'
1t is doubtless true that not more than
one-half the farmers know how to make
good butter. 1t is also true that it is
just as easy for one to make good butter
as for another. Indifference and indo-
lence have as much. to do with it in
many instances as have any other
causes,
If the country dealers would strictly
grade every pound of butter handled.
and adopt a scale of prices according;
if they would not hesitate to tell Mrs. A
that her butter. because of its inferior
quality, was worth only half as much as
Mrs BIS, who makes tirst-class article,
the chances are Mrs. A would go home
and begin in earnest to learn how tc
make butter equal to the best = .-..
A general adoption. of this system of
grading by the dealers all over the
country would doubtless do more to
raise the standard of excellence of
country huttere than any other one
thing. But until something is done in
complishment of so desirable a result, it
butterine and eleom argarine. 1t may
uOb VIC q pulCtAbsslC bub III LID S1S
well be stated that.the farmers and but
ter-producers are at the present time
greatly assisting these manufacturers
to get rich by simply giving them a
field practically clear from opposition.
This is not question of legislation, but
one of supply and demand. and one in
which the amount of the latter depends
upon the quality of the former. If the
producers of butter can make a good
article. one in every way superior to any
of the compounds now on the market,
butter will win the day and oleomarga-
rine be retired from the position of an
important factor in the problem! In
nutshell the question fairly stated is this:
Between good butter and good cleo
margarine the consumer will take the
former every time; but as between
good article of the latter and a villain
Gus article of the former, it can easily
be seen where the preference would
fall.-N Y. Tribune.
A new fancy in the crazy quilt line
is to have in the exact center of the
quilt block of plain satin with the in
itials, in monogram or otherwise, OF the
owner of the quilt. Another new de-
parture is to have each block the en-
bodiment of an idea, or at least to have
each block develop method in mad