The record-union., 1892-02-09
FARM And ORCHARD.
Good Butter Always Commands a
Market.
Moving Old Orange Trees-Covering
Peach Trees to Protect the Fruit
Buds from Injury During Winter
Growing Standardization Notes.

The following discussion of paper on
'1Butter Making" recently took place at a
Farmers Institute meeting in Illinois,
and is withal so to the point that we pub
lish it in full for the benefit of those OF
our readers engaged in dairying. In re-
ply to the question asked of the essaylst,
How do you market your butter so as 10
always command a better price than the
regular market quotation?" he replied as
follows:
Mr.. Goodrich-I have tried good many
different plans, but finally about eight
years ago l settled down to business and
wrote to the commission man that hanG-
led my butter, and said to him: Il am
going TO ship butter to you every week IN
the year just as long as | live, and now, If
you will do as well as you can for me you
can rely on its coming, and I will suit
customers if / can. You send me two
stencil plates, one with my name on, and
another with some device that you Will
now that it is mine and nobody else
Knows, so that if / have any butter that
is not just perfect you sell it on its merits
and not on mine and it won't injure the
reputation of my brand" L have got two
such plates. One of them, / am happy to
say, haven't been obliged to use very
Inuch. After while the commission man
began to find customers who would be
teDding back after my butter, and he
could get little more for 1t, till now for
{. year it has averaged from five to seven
and sometimes as high as eight cents
above Elgin quotations. don't want you
to think that think that this butter is so
much better than yours. | only tell you
his to show you there is skill in market
ing. My commission man writes to the
Iaany people who are complaining that
they rraf az | o.
thing like this: I'VE have handled MIR.
tioodrich's butter for great many years.
There is set of customers who are able
end willing to pay good price in order
10 have that particular brand, and we
can't satisfy them with anything else. We
charge them an extra price as penalty
1or their indulgence" Then he goes on
further and says: I'VE see no reason why
you or anyone else who will use the same
care and skill in manufacturing, and the
anne methods in marketing, cannot do
the same," and / don't either
Mr.. Martin-What are you getting for
your butter now?
Mr.. Goodrich-It brought 32 cents a
pound from November lst up to two or
three weeks ago. Then it brought me 81
cents. The Elgin price runs from % to
<S cents. 1t cost me last year Is cents a
pound to make this butter. Itnetted me.
taking out freight and commission ana
package, "a cents. There is one thing
want to emphasize. If you are going to
set good price for butter when you have
got market like that you find it will
Jay you to be thoroughly honest and
careful. When you put brand on a
package of butter it is Just the same as
saying, that is just such butter as | have
been sending you right along" and ii
You are telling them a lie you will soon
get paid for it. Then there is another
thing, If you begin at all, you must sup
ply them right along. 1t don'tdo to have
an over supply this week and run below
next. | have shipped butter every week.
and nearly the same day in the week, to
the same house for over eight years.
Some families have used my butter dur
ing all that time. They rely on my send
ing it regularly, and | rely on their TAX
ing it. This condition of things is mutu-
ally satisfactory to US. | don't want they
should get a taste of any other make of
butter tor fear l should lose them as GUS
toners, therefore mine is there for them
every time they want any. The commits
sion man finds the customers for me and
Oeals with them. He knows how high a
price it Will do to make them pay. and
they pay it. He does the business and
the per cent. commission pays him for
II, and / get as good net price as | could
set in any other way, without any trou-
ble at all, and the money invariably
comes the same week the butter is
shipped.
MOVING OLD ORANGE TREES.
"Many people of limited experience in
grange culture seem to think that an
orange tree cannot be moved with any de-
gree of safety after it has reached bear
ing age; but this is an erroneous idea.
Two years ago / had an experience in
this line and met with such good success
that | should not hesitate to move trees
Cf most any reasonably size and age
their removal from one place to another, .
says G. II. Lathrop in the Orange Bet.
Il moved nearly fifty orange trees, rang
ing from five to ten years old, some of
them fully fifteen feet in hight and six
inches in diameter at the trunk; most of
them had been bearing for several years.
During warm spell in May, cut them
back to about six feet in hight. or where
/ could reach conveniently with saw and
shears. The lateral branches were also
cut back so as to leave somewhat SYM
metrical head, although mostly composed
Of bare stubs. This also gave me good
chance to remove all the dead branches
that had accumulated about the center of
the trees, where the dense foliage had
shut out the light and air. These trees
were removed for two reasons. In the
first place they were scattered among de-
ciduous trees, where they caused con-
siderable unnecessary labor to care for
them when the deciduous trees were DOR
lnant; and more than that, they were
needed to fill some blank spaces in
another orange grove of about the same
age. After getting them all cut back,
proceeded to dig the holes. These holes
were made from five to six feet across
and about three feet deep, and furrow
Ilowed along the side in readiness for the
water when 1t was needed. The work of
pruning and digging holes occupied sew
tral days, and by this time the trees had
somewhat recovered from their severe
shock and were in better shape to stand
the root cutting which must necessarily
follow.
ITO accomplish this circular trench
was dug around the root of the tree about
three feet from the trunk, and the roots,
whether large or small, were severed
with saw or shears as fast as they We're
uncovered. When sufficient quantity
of earth had been removed the tree would
careen 10 one side so that the tap root
could be cut and the tree would be ready
10 move. Our Lugonia soil is a sandy
Aoam, which long experience has proved
10 be admirably adapted to the culture OF
citrus fruits, and from its nature would
not adhere to the roots of the trees. which
were sui as heavy as two men cared to
--tt from the hole and place on sled
which was drawn Up 10 receive them.
Alter covering the roots with a blanket
10 protect them from sun and wind, they
were drawn TO the holes prepared for
them and let down carefully to the proper
depth, which we consider a little lower
than they originally stood. They were
then moved into line with the other trees
and the holes filled about two-thirds full
OF dirt and stream of water turned in TO
settle the earth firmly about the roots.
Two or three days after this the holes
were filed nearly full of earth, the water
turned in again, and with occasional irri-
cations and CIVILIZATIONS they soon began
10 mt forth sDrouts and produced canes