Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03
THE FARMING WORLD.
New York Takes The Initiative in Sup
pressing Bogus Butter.
Views of a Prominent 0rchardist
On Fruit Culture in Ne
braska.
Goodbye to the Desert and Range
Cutting Potatoes for Seed
General Notes.
THE DAIRY INTER

The manufacture Of bogus butter has
reached such perfection and enormous
proportions, that the legislature of New
York has passed another stringent law to
suppress the business. Two years ago a
law was put upon the statute books sub
Jecting manufacturers and sellers to fine
and imprisonment for failure to properly
mark every package of butter, whether
the genuine or bogus article. The de-
mand for the bogus article in the large
cities of the state, was sufficient to in
duce manufacturers to risk the violation
of the law, and the bogus article
was branded as genuine. Very few
persons could tell the difference by tast-
ing, and as the law did not authorize the
employment of inspectors and chemists,
the butterine vendors had a clear field.
And they lost no opportunity to realize
on this fatal defect in the law. A gentle
man from Olean, N. Y, recently stated
to the writer that at the county fair held
there last fall the best of bogus and genu.
inc butter were placed side by side, and
that the judges, nawar of its presence,
after a thorough inspection awarded the
premium to the bogus article.
The law recently enacted by the New
York legislature provides a fine and i'm.
%prisonment as a penalty tor manufacturing
or selling bogus butter in the state, and
$500, 900 has been appropriated to carry
the law into effect. A thorough system
of inspection will be inaugurated, and it
is believed the product of the grease watts
will be driven out of the state in less
than a year. This movement is signifi-
cant and necessary. The dairy interests
OF the state lost last year $40, 000, 900.
Many diaries were forced TO close, being
unable to compete with the bogus stuff,
which generally sold in the market for
from III to 10 cents less. 1t is hoped
this law will be put in force in all states,
and may eventually lead to inspection OF
all manufactured food products and pre-.
vention of adulteration.
1t is pleasing, in this connection, 70
note the success of the creamery bust.
ness in Nebraska. Scarcely a week
passes without the organization of one or
more in some part of the state. When
properly managed they have invariably
proved successful. Of those already
established on a substantial basis, that
at Fremont is probably at the head OF
the list. Speaking to a reporter of The
Tribune recently, Mr.. j. Dixon Avery,
the manager, gave the following interest.
ing figures:
"We make as much as 1900 pounds
OF butter some days and our average il
over ZOO pounds. This amount is twice
as large as one year ago and the amount
made then was more than twice rs much
as the year Immediately preceding. Sc
you see we have been doubling our bust.
ness every twelve months since We
started"
do you expect to do twice as much
this summer as last ?"
"That's pretty hard to tell. After the
business gets so large it is harder to keeI
up that proportion of increase. How
ever, l think the spring and summer re
celpts for the coming season will be 10(
per cent larger than last year. We ex
pect to get the products of from 1000 tt
5000 cows. To those who have doubted
our ability to make a success of the en-
terprise this seems like a large number
but l think we will reach it."
"No one but a person who has gon,
through it knows what amount of labo
has been required to get it up to thi
magnitude. In the beginning the worl
was extremely hard. Now the farmer
take to it very kindly and from source
where we expected the least support il
some cases we have the most
"The success of this institution ha
had much influence on the dairy interest
throughout Nebraska. 1t is the larges
one of the kind in the west and wa
among the first established in Nebraska
consequently a great many have watche,
it and noted the results. To a certain
extent whatever has retarded or Oh
HANGED the growth of it has had its ef
feet o other similar institutions. Gu
products have always brought the highes
prices of any made in Nebraska, wit
one exception. Altogether the prospect
are fattering."