Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-05-15

honest congress snOulu rose no Tune ID
passing it. II oleomargarine, butterine.
or suine is as desirable for food as butter
made from cream, if its flavor is as
good, and its color and odor as attrrct-
i've, it should. after all. be sold under its
true name. Vessels sailing under false
colors are regarded rs piratical crafts,
and the practice of selling any article
under false name is fraudulent. The
opposition of many to all limitations of
butter may be the result of unreasona-
bic prejudice, but even prejudices are
entitled to respect. 1t may be that an
expert or an epicurc may not be able to
distinguish imitation butter from the
genuine article, but that furnishes no
good reason for attempting to deceive
him in regard TO the composition Of the
substance he buys to eat.
Many of the statements made before
the committee referred to were extra
VACANT, if not altogether void of truth.
For instance. Mr.. Joseph ii. Real,
whose dairy farm is elegantly located
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city, and whose creamery is presumed
to be situated on Broadway, said: The
fraudulent sale of butterinc will. unless
stopped. drive out the sale of butter en-
tirely; first, because it always has been
and always will be sold for butter. 1t
is a perfect counterfeit, and consumers
are not microscopes or chemists. Hon.
est butter can not compete with it. 1t
can be made and sold at 10 cents per
pound wholesale and retailed at Is
cents. While We can sell butter at
low price it can not be sold for this.
Genuine butter must therefore be driv-
en- from the market We can make
pork at 8 cents. beef at cents, wheat
at 80 cents, corn at % cents more sue
cessfully than We can butter at present
figures, and God knows none of these
prices pay the farmer. We ought to
have so cents for good butter. 1t is an
expensive article to make, but we can
produce the finest for 80 cents on the
average. That is the bottom, and we
have been forced to find that bottom"
o Now. it is not true, as every intelli-
gent farmer knows. that it is more
profitable to make pork for cents,
beef at ) cents per pound. wheat at so
cents. and corn at % cents per bushel,
than butter ut present figures" which
are from % to 33 cents per pound.
Farmers very well know that butter
keeps its price better than any article
they produce. On this account thou
sands of them are giving up grain-rais-
ing and the PROD potion of beef, pork.
wool, and fruit to engage in
dairying. A pound of good butter can
be produced much cheaper than six
pounds of fine beef or ten pounds Of fat
pork. IL dairymen fought to have so
cents for good butter" the grain-raiser
certainly Fought to have" more than
that sum for Lushel of good wheat
and more than % cents for bushel of
corn.
Again Dairyman Reall saws: There
Is no limitation to the amount of fine
butter we can make" BY fine butter
he means butter that will sell for so
cents per pound. He is probably right
in stating that there is no limitation to
the amount of expensive butter that
can be made, hut there is certainly a
on the amount of it that can
be sold, ut home or abroad, at the
price he names. Men who are earning
but 81 per day and women who receive
but half that sum can not afford to in
tulge in table luxury costing SO cents
per pound. If they can not obtain but
.er for less than so cents per pound
hey will use some other article i'm the
place Of it. Sugar of the best quality
s very cheap. and so are all kinds of
canned and dried fruits, jellies. jams,
Ind preserves. Fish preserved in vari-
JUS ways, and which are excellent con-
iiments, are also cheap as compared |
With butter at 80 cents per pound.
During large portion of the summer
can be obtained in towns
It from 5 to 10 cents per quart, and |
most persons would prefer them to
,utter at the price named by Dairyman |
seall. After strawberries have disap- i
reared other berries and larger fruits
axe their places and are sold at low
prices.
The statement was recently made to |
gentleman, who stands high as q
and economist, that half
he people in the United States live on
70 cents day per capita. These
'cople can not eat butter that |
'osts 80, or even 80, cents per
'ound. They must eat their
'read without butter or obtain an arti-
lie that is cheaper than "gilt-edge"
reamery. II the price of butter was
aised to 80 cents a pound on account
Il the abolition of the various substi-
utes for it, the price would not long
continue. Every farmer who could
,uy cows would engage in milk pro-
luction, and there would be a cream
ny at every road crossing in the coun-
ry. Ii an end was put to the manu-
acture OF the substitute for butter,
here would be greater difference
,etween the prices of that article and
hat OF beef and pork than there is at
resent, because oleomargarine, but
crime, and suine are made from suet
nd lard. 1t has been repeatedly stat
d that the manufacture of these arti-
les has resulted in adding s. to the
alue OF the average fat steer and 81. so
the value of hog weighing three
undred pounds. Increasing the price
4 butter and decreasing the price of
neat would cause people to eat less of
he former, for butter is not absolutely
ssential to human existence or happi-
ess.
A careful comparison of the prices in
commercial papers show that the price
butter has not declined since Meye
a SubStitufa for L. Na;4Lal .