Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-20
CREAM MADE TO ORDER.

How a Queer Factory Was Established and
Conducted Near the City-TelI- Tale Egg
Shells That Gave Away Rather Soft
snap.
When city people cannot tell the grade OF
milk they use it isn't much wonder that the
majority are satisfied with oleomargarine.
While some gentlemen were discussing the
merits and demerits of bull butter, yester-
day, and incidentally inst1tuting compar-
isons between the honesty of urban
and rural population, it was developed
that there is. or at least was, a cream factory
not far from the city; not an ice cream factory
nor four-legged one. The railway agent at
the station accommodated some city
milk dealers by sending orders for
cream to the various milk producers
from time to- time, and some of them either
from lack Of skill or an excess of conscience
sometimes could not fill the orders. But there
was one dairyman who was always equal to the
emergency, and though some squeamish peo-
pie were disposed to grumble and assert that
his cream was not always up to the standard,
vet by filling all the orders that others could
not he drove thriving trade.
Finally some envious people set an investiga-
tion on foot which well-nigh ruined the mans
trade. They found near his spring house. in a
secluded ravine wagon load of egg shells,
and the secret spread all over the country in 4
short time. Had tie enterprising cream maker
known the value of egg shells and used them
he would doubtless have maintained his cream
trade. Thus it is seen that "a little knowledge
is dangerous thing"
The narration of this story stimulated dealer
who once delivered milk on Wyhe avenue to
give his experience. He said he kept close run
of all the new people who came to reside
the avenue and always tried to secure their
custom before any other dealer got around. He
said he made 1t a rule to serve such new Gus
toners for time with better grade of milk
than ordinary. and gradually lowered its
quality as they succumb bed to his Establishments.
One morning he noticed that a tasty
new house was occupied. and calling
found newly-married couple installed.
He solicited the young wife to become Gus
toner and though he found she was city-bred
girl and knew but little more about country
life than the girl who wanted the farmer to
show her the cow that gave the buttermilk. yet
he gave her "a quart of o, milk
and she informed him that if they liked his
milk they would take quart daily. The next
morning he called, and the young wife told
him she didn't want the milk, as they didn't
like It. For time she refused to specify
the objection. but finally stated that it
made their gorge rise on account of having ac-
cumulated nasty yellow scum during the
night. The dairyman explained that such
things did sometimes happen, but he assured
her that if she continued her custom he
would guarantee that no more yellow scum
would be found on the milk. and though the
couple were patrons for years afterward they
never had any further occasion to complain of
the scum.
A great many accidents formerly happened
to milk, even in the best regulated families
possible to prevent water getting into cans at
times, but since the Introduction of the
lactometer the business IS not nearly so subject
to such vicissitude.