The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-12

maj net Is watched, and the department
| expects to be able to point out the
! places where there is need Of improve
ment.
The butter is shipped to the agent Of
the bureau OF animal industry in Lon
| don, and he places it in the hands Of
| commission men or retailers, as he
| sees mt, and gets from them and the
| consumers statements concerning the
| butter and their ideas of it. as COM
/ pared with other butter which is found
| on the market at the same time These
! statements have been most encourag-
| ing, and in many cases they are to
! the effect that the American butter is
| better than it was possible to find ON
I the market before its advent
! The shipments of the department have
/ resulted in some of the large com
/ mission men of London sending to
/ Americans to make permanent ar
! ranSements TO take their entire output,
/ and some shippers on this side have
! forwarded butter in carload lots on
the strength of reports which have
come from those who have been han
| ding the department butter.
! A great many inquiries have been
| received at the department for direc-
ton as to how to prepare and pack
| butter Tor the English market. and a
bulletin will be issued and arranged
| giving in full the information which
has been obtained by experiments.
1t has been found that the best
| American butter can be sold at 1 shil-
| ling and penny, which is the price paid
by English consumers for Danish
| French and Finish butter of the finest
| quality. Some of the experiments have
! shown decided profits. The depart
! ment has also shown that butter In
! small packages, half pound, or pound
/ prints, can be placed on the market
/ in good condition. but London COM
] los IN ma hot
! er have it in larger packages.
Every section of the country that
| devOtes itself to the raising of one
| product, exclusively, is subject to fail
/ ure and possible ruin" says HOrti-
culturalisJ Saunders, of the depart
/ ment Of agriculture. In an eudeavOr
/ TO prevent this calamity. the depart
ment is encouraging the production
/ OF q number of farm products through
out the country.
The people of Florida devoted them
| selves almost entirely to the raising
or oranges, and what was the result?
| When the heavy frOsts of a few wears
/ ago visited that section of the country
! the entire orange crop was DESTROYED
1 ana, furthermore, the trees suffered
so that 1t viii take them years to re-
! cover ana become fruitful. Cotton is
! raised most extensively throuehout
the South, and. were something so
| would be almost ruined
NOW, on the other hand ir The pal-
/ PIE OF that section devoted themselves
TO number of products, say. cotton.
oranges, figs, olives, and camuhar
there would hardly be a possibility of
anything occurring that would destroy
| all at one time, SO that the pe0ple
would have one or more products TO
1aH back on, in case Of the failure OF
! others.
The department OF agriculture is
! DONG great deal to induce the ex-
tension of olive growing. The olive is
| cultivated quite extensively i'm Califor-
MIA and with great profit. The olive
| growers sell all OF their product right
, IN their own state, so that almost none
of it comes East
THE department is now trying to-
| lnduce olive growing i'm the South
but like everything else connected
WIN this branch of the Department. it
! Is SLOW work. The people want to- see
some one growing the thing and
know that there is profit i'm it. before
they will attempt it themselves
| Our experiment stations through
/ out the country do not do as much i'm
| that line as they should They should
take hold Of some of these articles and
| show that they can be grown sue
| cessfully and with profit. and have
| sufficient accurate data to give to the
/ people in regard to the various pro-
/ ducts. They spend too much time
! growing lots of potatoes i'm order to
ascertain which is the earliest-a fact
/ which the farmers already known
| stead of introducing new things and
showing that there is profit i'm their
growth.
The olive was introduced into Flor
ida about $50 years ago. by the Minor
cans, who came TO this country from
Spain, and olives are known to have
/ been grown as far north as South
Carolina. The Minorcaus were a kind
of semi slave race, ana were all the
time fighting among themselves. and
with other nations who drove them out
Of Florida and the olive industry then
went TO ruin.
THE raising of olives is not all there
is to this industry. The hardest part
| is to get in with the trade. A gentle
| man from the South who had raised
| olives, took his oil to New York, but
! the merchants there would not buy it,
| and he afterwards sold it to q shoe
! factory. The merchants said that the
| people VINO use olive oil are very par
| ticular. and only use certain brands
Of imported olives. They say that they
could not sell new OIL and cOuse-
! Quently would not buy his OIL 1T re-
| quires q great deal Of time. and Amer
| lean olives can only be made profit
able when the people realize that the
American product is as good as the
imported one.
In California. when the people first
made olive oil. they had The same
trouble in selling it, and i'm fact they
gave IT away until the people began
to find out that it was a splendid
article The demand for California
olive oil increased. until now the sup
ply does not equal the demand.