The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

ing it in good order through the hot
summer months.
1t is the general average prices of all
butter made by private diaries, by all
gathered cream creameries, set milk
creameries and by acknowledgements
that tells the story of profitable or un-
profitable dairying. In the WATCH
MAN in which friend PERKINS, question
is asked the Boston market is quoted
for Vermont dairy low grades at six to
nine cents per pound, and no one
wants that kind OF goods, even at that
low price; but know merchants who
would be glad to get hundreds of tons
of the best separator creameries at
fifteen to sixteen cents per pound, de-
livered in Boston. 1t was because this
situation had been apparent to me for
many years that induced me, in Sep
TENDER, 1887, to get the opinion of the
leading produce merchants in all our
great cities, which gave to the public
through the Mirror and Farmer, in
which they stated that, taking all the
sales through the year, creamery but
ter averaged to sell about four per cent
! higher than dairy butter. These facts
were not given to hurt the interests of
private dairymen, but for the purpose
of inducing them to take up the better
methods and systems, and pursue the
better way and obtain better price.
If all the Vermont and New York but
ter was made by separator creameries,
and of as good a quality as that now
made in that way in those states, it
could be all exported at profit on the
cost. Seventy-fve million pounds of
fine butter would soon open up a cold
storage service on the steamers, and
market There is no danger Gas sug-
gested by Mr.. Perrin) that capitalists
will build creameries. 1t will be bet
ter for farmers to work out their own
salvation in their own way. If satisfied
with present prices, then let well enough
alone. If not satisfied, IN cooperation
and combination there is strength.
hope that no energetic, ambitious
young man will put his money into a
creamery of capacity to use the milk
of 1000 cows, and then fail for the
want of patronage from the farmers, or
by being forced to pay too high price
for his milk. A safer, a more perma-
nent and better way, is for each and
every farmer to have stock and an in
terest in the success of the creamery.
In that way, and in that way only, can
splendid success be achieved for all
the farmers, like that achieved by the
! farmers of Denmark. In that country
the great landed proprietOrs who had
hundreds of cows went ahead and took
their poor brother farmers, who had
six and ten cows, by the hand, and or
: ganized creameries, dividing the stock
= according to the number of cows each
had. 1t may be well to say that the farm
ers who have made good butter all their
: lives, and are thereby well off, may not
gain more than two cents per pound
by the change-they may be getting in
market fourteen cents to the cream
e cries sixteen cents. A greater gain
0 will come TO the farmer who gets only
D twelve cents per pound, a still greater
: gain will come to the farmer who sells
d for ten cents, and most of all to the
g poorest makers, who get from five to
/ eight cents per pound. The last are hap.
a PLY small in number in Vermont, but
: the second and third in price are in the
/ majority. Now if all the makers OF
a butter in the state carried their milk tC
l. the creameries, and thereby raised the
Il quality OF the butter on an average OF
r four cents per pound, it would, on the
J. twenty-five millions of pounds made il
n the state, make one million of dollars
d difference, and this increased prosper
is ity would benefit all classes of people
1t the stone-cutters, the mill operatives
= the store-keepers and lawyers-and alsC
d give to all food in which butter is useC
<, zest and relish that would make thu
IF eating pleasure.
|, These facts and suggestions are in.
y tended for the benefit of the people
Is and if a change is contemplated by thu
Il farmers of Washington county it nigh
o be we'll to have few butter-buyers o.
l, good judges of butter, such as Hon
IS Clark King of Montpelier, Hon. Alder
If Dwinell of East Calais, Alonzo Foste
"a of Cabot, and other persons who hav,
E. the confidence of the farmers, afte
N examining some of the best creamerie
s. in the state, draw up plan of incorpC
5, ration, and, if need be, get charte
W from the state legislature next fall
y have not a reasonable doubt of the sue
al cess of a cooperative separator cream
ST cry, supported by the honest endeavor
at and intelligence of four or five hundre
lie farmers, on the plan suggested in tn
Is article in the VERMONT WATCHMAN @
= May 81.
Manchester, n. H., June II, 1890.