The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-06
4eferreo Matter.
Dairy Matters In Illinois.

Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGMENT, ILLINOIS, ana vicinity,
as is quite well-known, Is the great milk
center of the West and has, besides a large
number of butter and cheese factories,
mlk-condensing factory where some sixty
thousand pounds of milk are condensed
daily. Since the meeting of the National
Butter and Cheese Association, held at the
time of the fat cattle show In Chicago this
last fall much bad feeling was engendered
by allowing the butterine men to come in
and show their products; in fact 1t is on the
increase, induced largely by the insinuation
that the butter-producers of the West are, to
a certain extent, adulteratng their butter
with butterine. In view of this insinuation
the Elgin Board of Trade, aided by large
number of the creamery men of the West,
have organized an association pledged to
pay stipulated sum to every purchaser OF
a pound of butter made by the members of
this association which is adulterated in the
least, or which is made from anything but
the pure cream of the COW, salt and color
excepted.
The Fox River Creamery Company loca-
ted at Oswego ILL.,, carried off the grand
sweepstake prize for the best package OF
pure butter exhibited at the National Butter
Show, and also the prize of $50 in gold
offered by Drake, Parker Il Co., proprietors
of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago, for
the best tub butter offered, over one hun
dred competitors. This company have
standing offer of 81 600 in all the markets
where their products are offered for sale, as
a reward for a single package of adulterated
goods of their make, but as yet they have
never been called upon for any part of it.
All the whey, or the larger part of it, from
the large cheese manufactures is run OIL
into the sewers and goes to waste-a pro-
duct which ought to be utilized in making
milk-sugar. A Boston gentleman was in
this section, few days ago, visiting all the
large factories, with the view of obtaining
the whey for that purpose, it is thought,
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about the matter. This gentleman and
others will be in this section again in few
days, when more will be known about the
matter.
The larger part of the butter produced in
the West as | have heretofore said, is
made in creameres or factories Gnstesd of
being made up at home) from whole milk,
though lately many farmers who wish to
save their SKINNED milk for their calves and
pigs have adopted the practice of setting
their milk in eight-inch diameter sets and
selling the cream at so much per inch, ac-
cording to the price of butter. The going
price now is about ten cents per inch for
cream, with butter at thirty cents. Some
farmers, thinking they could realize more
for their butter-the creamery men base
their calculation on two and one-half inches
of cream making pound-have from time
to time stopped sending their milk to the
factories and made it up at home. The re-
suits have been various, some contending
that less than two inches will make pound
of butter, while other equally as good
butter-maxers claim that they cannot make
a pound out of less than three inches. am
speaking now of mixed herds of from forty
to one hundred cows.
Butter-makers, East as well as West, may
as we'll make up their minds first as last
| that butterine has come to stay and that
they have got q Uery able competitor in the
article. 1t is useless to kick when, as here
few days since, one of our best butter men
| was unable, after four different trials to
pick out package of butterine from bunch
of ten tubs of genuine butter of the finest
| quality, that was just one-half lard Tor neu-
trail, as the dealers call it). AS one man says,
butterne will have one good effect, if no
other-it will stop the sending to market of
bitter and streaked grizzled and gray
dairy stuff called butter. 1t will work a
complete change in the handling and care
| of cows in handling the milk from the time
| it goes into the bucket until it goes into
the market as butter-neatness in every
detail, in the stable, in the milk-room, in
short everywhere and at all times.
This (Kane) county, the center OF the
dairy interests of Illinois, has been agitated
| from center to circumference several differ
ent times from some one starting the cry
| that somebody's cows had that dreadful dis
| ease, pleuro-pneumonia. If a muley cow
was seen looking over her right shoulder at
| the rising moon, or If horned COW renamed
| d
ing at night, the acts were taken as sure
| signs that pleuro- pneumonia was rummaging
| around their internal mechanism and that
it was only question of few days when
all the cows of the herd would be similarly
affected. Valuable cows We're killed to
save other valuable cows Visits were
made by state veterinarians and local cow
inspectors. Some COWS were killed; Others
We're quarantined in either case the visits
resulted disastrously to the owners. And
now we find that on "Panse Lassie " be-
ing killed at Rushville, this state, it was
discovered that she was suffering only from
a common lung fever, quite common among
| jersey cattle, | am told Wise doctors
sage veterinarians! Panse Lassie " was
bought in Ohio at a fair, and had been
blamed all along for bringing peuro-pneu'
monia into Illinois. Mr.. Clarke of Genoa,
this state, has suffered the loss of several
valuable cows, by reason OF the state veter'
inarian's bunglng diagnosis in fact it has
nearly ruined him, financially, as well as
many others. 1t is now pretty universally
believed about here that there has never
been case of malignant pleuro-pneumonia
in this state.
William +. Bowers, a farmer of Serena
raised one hundred ninety-eight and one
half pound squash this season, the entire
product of one vine weighing over eigh
hundred pounds. How is that for a squashi
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