The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-05

mas constantly huctuating surplus o.
this amount. Now, gentlemen, tn,
question has been asked many times
"How can this surplus be turned to The
best account, when the demand is Juiet
ana the conditions of production favor.
ableF The separator is the only good
answer. A dairy of the size named has
a more or less extensive sweet cream
trade-nearly all the cream used is
wanted In the morning. Cream taken
from milk obtained the day before is not
always satisfactory and stands pre-
carlous chance of holding with any de-
gree OF certainty good cream trade.
turther' 1t is matter of general knowl-
edge that with the separator from three
to hye pounds more butter can be OBJ
tanned from twenty gallons of milk than
by any other process yet tested. This
consideration alone has been deemed suf-
ficient to induce some who hold n fixed
purpose to keep abreast with advancing
methods to discard the old ways of set
| ting milk and Swimming cream. 1t NAV
transpire that all those who have found
it impossible to combat and successfully
meet an ever increasing competition will
conclude in the end that it would have
been as conducive to health and have
displayed infinitely better business sense
to have. owned separator than to have
lessened production and curtailed their
income.
AS TO license on dairy hacks. The
propriety of attempting to induce the
city council to place a tax upon dairy
hacks has been urged upon this ASSOC
citation. We can find no good reason
why the city should refuse the dairymen
this protection. All those estimablc
ladies-l respect and admire them, and
wish them abundant success-who hope
for baubles and spring hats will find
brighter prospects under a licensing sys-
TEN than they do now. Since they run
no regular dairy hacks they will escape
the tax and have the additional satisfac-
ton of selling milk to the very people
whom the cphemcral milk seller would
have taken from them. The tax will
be found to exert salutary influence OH
the quality of milk sold, since it will
virtually shut out the periodic dairymcn
and add the factor of uniform prices and
pure goods to the milk trade. We will
not be understood as saying that pure
milk is not sold now, and in vast guam
titles; but, as a matter of fact, every
spring n very large amount of very in
ferior milk is sold at reduced prices by
men whose business is not permanent
and regular, and who conceive it i'm
practicable to attempt to gather prestige
to name which will not last through
the summer.
Another good to come from the license
will be found in line with a suggestion
from Mr.. Klunkert.
Butter and cheese factories can, not
pay more for raw material than can be
obtained from finished products any
better than can any manufacturing
plant proceed upon this basis. Now
average, two gallons and one
pound of butter twenty-five cents is
IL high average for creamery butter in
all markets that could be reached from
this city. Now, deducting from this av-
cragc price, operating expenses and one
half of the remainder will represent the
price which could be obtained for one
gallon of milk, or about cents. A
other horn of the same dilcmma-possi-
bly, 1 cent per gallon better.
Mr.. Chairman, the manner in which
be this: The small dairymen-only
systematically or by habit dairymen-
would meet with the obstacle of license.
Having an inferior quality of milk at
best and at the same time not having
much original cost in it, since he owns
his farm, his cows, his team, his hack
and he, and possibly his sons, have
raised most of the feed which has pro-
duced the milk, can better afford to
combine with his neighbors and establish
cheese or butter factory than can the
staggering and over-burdencd dairymcn.
We would present to him strong induce
ment to establish such a factory and at
the same time relieve ourselves of the
necessity of selling n pure and first quail
ity milk at the prices paid for inferior
goods; also. constantly recurring periods
of wholly inadequate prices. May we
be allowed to present the matter to you
in the manner of its effect, if the dairy
men should establish this cheese or but
ter making concern. the regular price
paid for milk at the factory would of
necessity not exceed S or 9 cents at most.
With no license. the milk man of habit
would prefer to bring his product into the
open market and engage it ut hotel or
restaurant or candy factory or ice cream
parlor Mt 10 cents per gallon than to take
it to the factory at Il cent or two less.
Even supposing the factory was willing
to receive milk in very large quantities,
there is a limit to the chcapncss at which
milk can be produced in any quantity.
Mr.. Chairman. our contention is for
reasonable, uniform prices for Il first
class quality of goods. Our disposition
is TO wish kindly of every competitor and
treat fairly every man who wants to sell
milk regularly and make it Il permanent
business.
Far from supinely predicting disaster
and failure for this association, we are
glad to forpteTl success and the accom-
plishment of good results.
We prophecy, moreover, milk IN
spector in the near future and dairy in
spectors later on. Very respectfully.
EDIEJ'IN 4. PIN