The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27
Editorial NOtings.

me, through your paper, where | can
get ten-pound boxes to pack butter in ?
have seen these packages and am
told that butter sells the best in them.
They were about twice as long as the
width, and larger at the top, so the
butter can be turned out easily" The
makers should let their light shine in
the advertising columns of the WATCH
MAN.
A "TERRIBLE STAB."-Speaking of
a"n new process " for making over rot
ten butter, Gas good as new" the
American Dairyman says: L" If all the
poor, worthless store butter can be
made over into genuine gilt edge
article, it will be terrible stab to the
creamery interests of this country"
We would like to have the Dairymdn
tell the world, if this renovation of stale
grease is going to be so damaging to the
creameries, what it thinks will be the
result of all the work Of our Dairymen's
Associations, experiment stations, con-
ferences, and proposed dairy schools.
Their evident purpose is, and their
plain result Gf successfully will be, to
soon double or treble the output o. but
ter in this country-not of revamped
wheel-grease, but of high-grade dairy
and creamery butter-and to do that with
much fewer cows, with more cheaply-
produced and better-economized feed,
with minute economy of labor, manure
and all by-products, and consequently
at a greatly reduced cost. II the one is
a" stab" then is not the other likely
to be wholesale destruction?
COMMON SENSE APPLIED TO FARM
ING.-We certainly would like to see a
little more common sense displayed in
treating of this and other economic
subjects. We want to know if it is
really believed by men calling them
selves rational that the competition of
utterly worthless goods, like store
butter" and cleo, is more dangerous to
the dairy trade than competition with
truly high-grade, honest goods. Our own
notion is that the practical result of
the efforts now being made to improve
and perfect the dairy industries of
America will be such an increase of
production, such an improvement in
r,,olitx, oyI o,,nh ,aIrot;pr Of
that pure butter of superior flavor, good
natural color and sound keeping quality,
will be profitably sold at such low
prices that denominations like store
butter" and oleo will as completely
disappear as have homespun clothing
and stage-coach travelling.
SELF-REsPECT. = The clap-trap APP.
peals so constantly appearing in the
press to prohibit this and put down
that-this perpetual scare politics "
applied to agricultural questions
seems to us utterly unworthy of SO
great and powerful an industry as agri-
culture. The consuming public are not
fools. AS a class, they know good
things when they see them, and want
good things when they can get them.
We have right to demand thorough
inspection of all food products. We
should court it for what we produce
and demand it for what others produce
The fraudulently packed apples, the
bogus "new sugar." the poor or watereG
milk, the ill-made butter and cheese
the bob veal, the measly pork-all cal
for the same inspection and the same
public exposure and condemnation tina
we rightly demand for cleo. The hon
est farmer can stand it--nay, he car
greatly profit by it. Honesty will pros
per, but it will prosper most where dis
honesty is rigidly exposed and punished
The farmers will put themselves at
great disadvantage with an intelligen
public when they go so far as to CLAIM
immunity from the action of equa
laws. They never have yet done SO
and we do not believe they can be in
duced to do so.
The TENDENCY OF THE TIMES j
toward the cheapening of every thin
consumed by mankind. The farmer
can not escape this tendency. The
demand cheapness in what they buy
and those who buy of them natural
make the same demand. 1t is inevi
able. 1t behooves every man to under
stand this truth. Only by understand
ing it can we prosper. Unquestionably
if we are not growing our feed cheaply
if we do not keep good cows, or do nc
keep them rightly; if we do not kno'
our trade thoroughly,-then what "
produce is costing us too much. Or
safety is in learning how to produc
everything from the farm as cheaply t
possible. We must not expect, eithe
that all we save by these methods "