The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-04-08
MARKETING BUTTER.

MARKETING BUTTER. /
One City Where Commission Men Pay
More Than Wholesale Grocers.
+. A. Leighton writes from Philadel-
phia to The Creamery Journal:
There was meeting here in Phila-
delphia, which I attended, Of the cream
cry men within half days drive Of the
city The men got up and made the
statement that they received more mon
ey for their butter when they shipped
it to the commission men than when
they sold to the wholesale grocers or to
any other line of trade. Now here is
the point. If these people within 20
miles of Philadelphia can do better
with commission men than with any
other class Of trade, will not the same
thing hold true with us in the west?
These creamery men are here where they
can watch the business, but still all are
agreed that the safest way to do bust
ness is through the commission men.
wish to call the attention Of the
butter makers to the correct way Of us
ing the parchment lining for tubs. My
authority on this is one Of the largest
commission firms in New York. They
say there is no doubt that the parch-
ment paper is one of the great i'm
provements Of the age in butter making
and something that will have to be uni
versally used in short time, but there
are not many who know how to use it
properly. In the first place, don't buy
the parchment circles for the top of the
butter. They are not wanted on the but
ter at all; they are more of all injury
than benefit. They have tendency to
wrinkle the surface of the butter and
make it very unsightly. When the lin
ing is used, let it come up about an
inch above the top of the tub; then, aft
er the straight edge has been used, fold
the paper over the butter and place the
cloth circle on top, then light sprin-
king of salt.
And now few words about flavor.
Here is a subject that will stand more
Investigation by our experiment stations
than any other feature Of the dairy
business. It is something that we don't
know anything about. One butter maker
will win the sweepstakes at conven-
tion, but he does not do it the second
time. Why? Because he doesn't know
how he did it before, and when he comes
to make a second tub like the one he won
with at the previous show he is entire
~ in the dark. I believe the whole Sc
cret is in the ripening of the cream. It
must be possible for US to make as fine
butter in some of our creameries as the
classes Of this country who are selling
their butter for from 40 cents to 81 per
pound.
am stumbling on to this butter about
every day now, and I say to you there
is nothing equals it that have seen in
the west. 1t is no better than ours on
~ in flavor The mechanical part is no
better. Ours has just as good grain, is
seasoned and colored and worked just as
we'll, but the flavor, "that's the rub -
Let us pay more attention to flavor.
Milk Shippers.
No dairyman should engage in sup
plying milk to the trade who is not
willing to produce a reasonably uni
form amount throughout the year. I'm
even production is great menace to
remunerative prices. This was the un-
DERIVING cause that occasioned the rup-
ture between Philadelphia s producers
and dealers five years ago. A fair pro-
portion of the COWS should be fresh in
the fall Of the year instead of SO large
~ after the new year as is now the
case. The supply Of milk is allowed to
fall so low in the late fall and early
winter that dealers in the emergency
take on additional shippers, though
these, like the previous furnishers, may
ut the time be producing only small
quantity of milk. About the new year
these diaries, old and new, by the COM
ing in of fresh cows, begin to largely
increase the supply, and thus the mar
ket is demoralized at a time when by
better management good and steady
sale could be had.
Some milk shippers indulge jeal-
ousy toward the suppliers of whole and
skim milk that enter the market from
the creameries at the time of low pro-
duction. Such jealousy is shortsighted
Until milk shippers shall properly dis
tribute their fresh cows throughout the
year the creamery may continue to rem
der a valuable service to the regular
shipper of milk, for by thus supplying
the temporary shortage dealers are re-
ieved from the necessity of seeking new
permanent shippers
Dairy and Creamery.
Peas and oats, half and half, sown
together make good soiling crop.
Corn drilled in is also one of the best
of crops to be cut green in the blade
and fed to cows The oats and barley
from spring seeding should be fed just
as the head is forming.
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