Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-08-30
wake Up, Dalrymen.
W. A. HESRY.

WOrkB tnNt DOuSut SOiu AOOh Wy .uS
ton without analysis? How careful
would the miners be TO sort the rock,
throw away the worthless part and
strive to deliver nothing but high
grade ore under such system? What
If saw-mills bought logs by the hun:
dred, with 10 stipulations as to size
1 How long would 1t be before parties
supplying the mill would argue them
selves into the full belief that a sap
ling was a giant of the forest and 60
ing cheap at the price paid! how
would a grist mill fare that bought
wheat by the bushel without any ex-
animation or grading? How long
would the parties drawing wheat to
such a mill deal square with the mil
Ter, and deliver nothing but clean, sat
isfactory grain2 We smile to think OF
the absurdity of running any business
OH such plan as this, and yet this is
Just what has been going on at our
cheese aud butter factories, when milk
is brought by the hundred pounds re-
gardless of what it contains. No bus.
mess in this world is Legitimate and
fair to every one concerned until every
party interested receives his due pro:
portion of pay based on merit, and
merit only. A am led to these
thoughts by looking over the reports
of hundreds of analyses of herd milk,
taken at factories in this state, made at
this station for Food and Dairy Com
missioner Thorn. A few milks have
run as low US ~ lbs. of fat to the
hundred others have gone up as high
rs 8 lbs. in q few cases. A large num-
Der are just above 3 lbs., and
quite many run about 4.5 lbs. OF fat to
the hundred. Think for moment of
the wide variation in these figures.
Even ignoring the ~ per cent. sam
pies, which we may assume are cheats
and frauds, see the difference between
honest milk of 1926, say. and milk OF
as Der cent. Here Is one farmer turn
ing in milk which will make about
1876 lbs. OF butter, and the other 40 to
the hundred, and each delivering such
milk day after day, year after year,
driving to and from the factory In
company, talking over politics, hard
times, high taxes, and such matters to-
gether as neighbOrs do, Ignorant OF
this wide difference existing between
the value of the milk each turns in.
Let us change the case slightly. Sup
posing the same farmers have hogs 10
deliver at the railroad station. One
brings hogs that weigh 1926 lbs. each;
the other an equal number weighing
$50 lbs. each. What II the stock buy
or were 10 say: "a hog is hog with
Us, aud we pay so much apiece; Of
course the heaviest hogs bring the
most money, but we must average the
thing, so I will pay each Of you the
same average per head" What row
there would be-?
Why should there not be grand
clearing up at the factory where milk
is delivered, and each person get his
just dues ii such great variations ex-
list? The only reason there Is not is
because the farmers have not been
brought to realize the great difference
In the different lots of milk; being o
white, opaque substance, can-full Of
milk seems q can full, no more no less,
and one lot as good as another. The
fat test is going to straighten this all
out. The present year marks all era
In dairying, and is the dawn ola bet
ter day for the intelligent and progress
bive dairyman. From this time forth
the wheat will be winnowed from the
chat, aud honesty and intelligence get
their due reward. The fat test now
used in few factories will become
general very soon, and dairymen
should get ready for the change. tits
the duty of every intelligent patron to
insist that the factory adopt some test
at the earliest possible date, anu that
all money be divided upon what the
test shows multiplied by the quantity
of milk each delivers.
We arc pleased to publish all Prof.
Henry will say on the test system as II
is certainly the most important topic
Just now in the dairy. We wish, how
ever, to add that not only should pa
irons pay for testing their individual
cows but also for their testing of the
milk at the factory. The factoryman
has no personal profit in it, but the pa
irons have-hence they ought TO pay
for the extra expense.-Ed. d. G.
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