The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-03-01
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j. u. Smith writes as follows In
lloard's Dairyman. desire TO com
mend the article Of c. H. Everett In n
recent issue Of your Journal, condemn
ing the practice OF some farmers in
selling their skim milk at 12 and 70
cents per hundred pounds 10 be manu-
featured into filled cheese. IL would
seem impossible In this day Of dairy
information, 10 find any dairymen
who could be NO short sighted. In the
first place, as Mr.. Everett says, the
milk Is worth at least 25 cents per
hundred pounds to feed 10 growing
hogs II fed 10 thrifty young pigs, l
believe II worth even more than this.
There Is another profit to be made out
Of skim milk that many lose sight OF. /
met a small dairy farmer recently who
carefully looks after details, who said
10 me that he believed the manure his
hogs manufactured was worth as much
20 him rs the pork. With proper facili-
ties for making manure, believe this
Is not a wild estimate. Certainly,
then, here Is a big leak In the purse Of
the dairyman who sells his skim milk
at ~ 10 10 cents per hundred pounds.
Back Of this is still greater leak.
Every pound Of this miserable fraud
cheese which the farmer furnishes the
material To manufacture robs him Of
the opportunity Of selling a quantity OF
whole milk sufficient To make ten
pounds Of cheese. Now this may seem
Ike an astonishing statement, but I
have taken pains 10 inform myself, and
am confident II IL true. Ihave intro
duced the subject In dairy meetings,
have talked with hundreds OF indiyid.
uals, and have obtained figures from
dealers, and | say, without hcsita.
tion, that there Il not one pound OF
cheese consumed by our people where
there should, and would, be ten. only
for those denominations, filled and
skim cheese. We ought TO be, and
would be, cheese consuming people,
II we could buy pure unauthorized
article OF cheese when we call for II.
Mr.. Everett utters burning truth
when he says; 1.-The consumer buysit
Tor full cream cheese, and pays Just as
much for u rs he would for good
cheese, and when he attempts to eat II
he becomes Disguised, declares he can
get no good cheese, and he declines TO
buy" This sums up the whole mat.
ter. 1 have been imposed upon
more times In buying cheese than
any other article OF food. can
remember when my mother used to
make home made or dairy cheese, and
what delicious article Il was. Two
or three nice large ones were always
made and sufficiently cured for use In
hhying, and then others made with
special reference TO long keeping for
winter use. II fairly makes my mouth
water now To think of them. Fellow
dhirymen OF Wisconsin and elsewhere.
why not apply little common sense
10 this busincss2 II my statement Is
true, and | am borne out In II by such
a multitude OF Witnessed do not see
how II can be doubted-thcn, for
every dollar received for skim milk, or
milk sold TO manufacture skim cheese,
there is a loss Of $40 TO the dairymen
of the country. l know scores OF
farmers will read this and say "Oh!
bosh'-but how many more years will
IL take. with olco flooding our
markets, and filled and skim cheese
on sale everywhere, while honest
dairy butter is begging sale.
before farmers will open their
eyes 20 their own "bosh?" Why.
with the light receipts OF butter which
have prevailed all the fall, do we hear
such complaints OF dull markets and
slow ssles2 Simply because honest
goods are being driven out OF the mar.
ket have repeatedly paid ms high us
10 cents per pound for cheese that |
bought for full cream, that was nothing
but half or three quarters skim; In
three days after cutting II would be us
dry rs u chip, My experience is that
Of every one; we are constantly being
imposed upon until, as have said, we
do not consume one pound OF cheese
wheFs we would ten and believe Il NAV
be placed even higher than that. Do
away with tllled and skim cheese and
let our people know they can get a
genuine article when they call for Il,
and at once the dairy industry will re.
celve powerful impetus all over this