The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-12-24

A Dairyman's View On the Value 81 20
operation 20 Every Farmer.
II every man and woman in the Uni
ted States who owns one COW or more.
had the best buttcr-making utensils
now known to man. had the critical
knowledge to enable them TO use them
10 the very best advantage. had the
hest salt that ever was made from
brine, or dug from the mines, the best
packares and room 10 make and store
Il IN. still il would be dreadful mis-.
take in them all 70 imagine they could
thus produce the butter Of commerce
SO as 70 make such q heterogeneous
lot take the place Of that which now
rules the great butter markets OF the
world. commands the highest price and
makes the most profit for the men who
milk the cows. The system, no matter
how well managed. would be detective
because il repudiatcs the modern estab-
lished methods Of getting fresh-made
hunter into the hands Of the high.
priced-paying consumers. II leaves tnt
product SO scattered. and the supply
50 inconstant. that il Il not q practical
way for the milk producers and con-
sumcrs to meet each other. few
large dairymen who will get, and reg
ularly supply TO customers. the entire
wear. can do il. A few farmers
through the intervention Of one com.
mission man who has his customers
may do Il with fair success But for the
mass il i no more practical than fol
the wheat farmer to reduce his wheat
~ -four on the farm. and supply his
customers in distant cities
I The cooperative system that Sc
\ largely fills the best markets Of the
(! world. has now such . foothold that
4 no amount Of effort on the part OF scat
tered farmers can superccdc II. AZ has
! walked to the front. and can maintain
( il advance over any scattcration pol.
lev. no matter how much the email
farmer and his wife may know about
bntter- making; and though what they
produce Is as fruitless, when fresh
from the churu. rs Is the Darlington
butter that has been sold for many
wears at dollar pound. The excel
lencc OF IL then has little to DO with
getting price for i in the shape the
small farmer gets II ready in small
amounts for market. He must poo
his milk. Or his cream. with his neigh
bors to get good prices, just % certain
" As he must cell. with them, his sur
rslus wheat. and barley. and meat. and
the milk he produces for the cheese
factory
| II this would be true even though
cvcry milk producer was also . first
class butter-paaker. an excellent scholal
and business man. how much more
Il true vines applied 10 the skill-ol
rather the lack 81 it--that we see ap
piled to indiscriminate butter-making
and to the development = business
ways and intelligence that character
ICES 50 large . portjse Of the pcopl'
who milk the COWS Their success
illustrated b. the quotations for butte
rs they read dairy butter about hal
that ~ creamery.
When We take this view. aysd know
how true Il Is that the mass can not b
thus benefited. we question the wis
dom Of large part Of the efforts tina
are put forth 10 teach the farmers Y
make and market their own butter
II i for them TO learn to do what the.
can not follow Is business. II Is 70
them 20 put their fine. rosy product N
to chute, that will return them dis
! appointment and loss. The short roa'
20 the cooperative butter-factory u IN
one the mass will tread TO max
money. no matter what they cndur
ID getting there. AoorGs Dairvnsx