The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-10
THE DAIRY.

THE Dutch Government is said to
insist that all artificial butter exported
from the Netherlands shall be marked
as such on the packages in which it is
enveloped; but be this as it may, nothing
is more certain than that the COM
modify Is exported in packages branded
as containing all the most popular but
tiers sold in the London market, such as
Burro di M!lano, Beurre d'Isigny and
Extra Danish or Holstein.
1t is reported that at the meeting
of the Connecticut dairymen, one Mr..
Peck stated that some cows fed on
coarse cob meal and poor hay gave five
spaces in creamer and the same cows
with corn meal and good hay gave ten
spaces, an increase of one hundred per
cent. in richness by simple change of
food. Any one at all familiar with
handling COWS knows this cannot be
done, not probably within ninety per
cent. of being done, and yet respectable
farm papers will copy such statements
and give them forth to the world with
out a word of comment. Not throwing
in the slightest antidote to go along
with the poison. Dairyn1Gfe.
Mr.. Hoard says he has seen dairy
men, who practice winter dairying,
average S1.50 for their milk. He does
not locate this paradise, we suppose,
from fear of making the farmers proud,
but he describes it thus: every farmer
keeps all the cows he can and feeds
high. The country is a garden, and
peopled with intelligent and rich farm
ers who. if they do not pity, sniff in
disdain at the farmer who is green
enough to make grain to sell on land
worth sixty dollars an acre. They drive
fine, housekeeping horses and have a
whole sleigh full Of milk each morning,
and think no more of buying an addi-
tional COW or two than most men do of
buying a cigar. Their barns look like
great manufacturing establishments
which they in truth are. They do this
with q pertinacity that knows no abate-
ment, but with constantly increasing
herds, knowing it pays" How do you
like the picture?-Ihe Dairy.
1t is generally conceded that q
large share of the so-called butter sold
in the Eastern markets is adulterated,
and some say even to the extent of sew
enty-five per cent, but according to
the Farmers Tribune, Chicago as usual
leads all the rest. Recently seventy
five samples of so-caled butter were
tested in Chicago, and but two were
found to be genuine. These samples
were purchased from grocers in vari-
GUS portions of the city, and all de-
clared that they would not be guilty of
selling the adulterated stuff, yet but
two out of the seventy-ive samples
were pure" The prices paid for these
samples were said TO range from twenty
to forty cents pound, and all probably
taken out of tubs from the same factory,
and intrinsically of equal value. Was
there ever more preposterous and
successful fraud practiced upon man
kind? and yet all seem absolutely help
less when any effort is attempted to
make Roadway against it. This state
of circumstances is certainly very
strange.-THe Dairy.
I once attended q dairymen's con-
vention, and the flavor with which one
of the prominent officers perfumed the
air about him was that of copious in
termiXture of rum and tobacco; and he
read paper on cleanliness in the dairy.
My impression was that the convention
had better give its attention first to the
cleanliness of its officers. 1t was an in
sulting burlesque to have such a man
tell the few women present, that it was
their duty to maintain cleanliness in
their diaries. Why, should very much
dread to have such q man sit down to
my table, and | would rather have ten
boiled dinners about my milk for
whole day than to have that man in my
milk room for three mirsltes. do not
believe that butter-making will ever be
what it should be until the women hold
conventions and devise means to induce
the men to clean up; to get the whisky
out of them and the odor of tobacco out
of their clothes and breath. If we do
not know as much about making butter
as our liege lords do, we neither drink,
chew or smoke, and that goes a long
ways in the dairy, brothers, as sure as
you live. -Farnaer'S Wite, in Western
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