The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-05
HOW TO SELL BUTTER.

HOW TO SELL BUTTER.
The depression in the price Of regis
tered dairy cattle during the past few
years has caught many breeders with
more milk COWS on their hands than
are needed to supply their tables with
a most bountiful supply of milk and
butter. This is especially the case
where the herd is composed of Hol-
stems, for even after allowing the
calves all the fresh milk they can take,
the surplus will yet be considerable.
In order to utilize this surplus to ad-
vantage, the n of thoroughbred
herds are obliged to resort to market
facilities, but this being anew business
to them, they are at first somewhat
puzzled how to go about it. And it is
to this class of persons 1 should like to
offer a few suggestions cleaned from
my own experience, hoping to help
them out of their dilemma.
If one lives within reach of a town it
is doubtless more profitable to market
the milk fresh, as there is an unfailing
demand for a good pure article; but
should the herd be too far removed
from this, then the next most profit
able dairy product is frst-class butter.
But country butter, you will say, is
quoted at a price so low that it doesn't
| pay for the labor of it's making. And
this is generally true in every instance
where the farmer sells to a dealer WHO
buys to resell.
Butter loses at,least one half Of it's
merchantable value when it changes
| hands-when the connection is broken
between the maker and the consumer.
For at the present day of food adul-
iteration, we all wish to know the hand
that feeds us. There is no other article
of food in regard to which the taste of
civiled man is quite as ~fastidious as re-
CARDS his butter. He wants first to be
assured that it is made from the milk
of a healthy COW that is being fed upon
wholesome food, and that the man or
woman who does the work has a pure
heart and clean hands; secondly, he
likes to be sure that he shall receive
the butter regularly and punctually-
say every Saturday morning-for a
whole twelve months. These two
things being settled, the consumer is
willing to pay a fair price, IS cents per
pound the year round; for three times
a day, during the 365 days in the year,
he likes the center-piece Of his table to
consist of what some one calls the
solidified sunshine Of Orange county.
Now, how shall such a customer be
found, forifwe producea first class ar
tlcle we want some one to have it who
can appreciate it's merits. We will first
con over in u minds the list of our
friends and acquaintance living in the
city who we think may be able and
willing to afford such luxuries, then we
will confer with them on the subject
and request that if not already SUD-
piled we may be permitted to send
them a few pounds as a sample. But
should we have no acquaintance in
the nearest city to which we wish to
send our wares, let us procure the
names of some reputable housekeepers
who reside there, or of the proprietor
OF some frst-class hotel or boarding
house, and trust him with a sample of
the incest butter we can make. packed
In a new tin pail covered with parch-
ment butter paper In the most attrac-
tive style. And by the same davis
mail, or the one which preceded it.
write him a letter stating what we
wish, and giving him as a guarantee
of good faith the address of the city
judge or banker Of our nearest county
town.
We did that once, and gained a Gus
toner connected with the express Office
who obtained for us a market for he
tween 600 and 5000 pounds a yea
at Is cents per pound, free of freight.
The express men make our best GUS
toners because their contracts with
their employers allow them to draw
their marketing any distance under
the dead-head decentralization Req
lister.
The Tribune, CWinfeld, KAN says:
To-day the sheriff sold under the
hammer, nine tracts of land, aggregat-
Inp I III oornC for tho c1YDo of neoa