The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-05-28
Dairy Notes.


pounds of oleo oil exported from the
United States during the past year.
say the records, and much of it
taken by those European countries
which supply England with butter.
And they boast here that they cannot
get butter from the United States
which will sell as readily as that they
get from the Continent.
But there is reason for this. For
many years either our exporters or
the English dealers have felt that it
would not pay to ship any butter from
this country to England except the
lower grades, such as could be bought
at about one-half the price of strictly
fancy butter in New York or Boston.
If in Denmark or Belgium or Holland
they mix oleo oil and butter fat in
equal proportions, we have no doubt
they could make an article that would
compare favorably with the nine or
ten-cent ladle-packed butter sent from
here. And we have little doubt
that some of them have done this
hing. The amounts of butter they
ave been reported as exporting for
The number of COWS kept would be in
credible unless we believed either
Nhis, or that the inhabitants of those
countries used no butter. but bought
cleo and sold all their butter.
If Secretary Wilson of the Depart
ment of Agriculture succeeds in intro
ducing to English markets some of our
strictly fancy butter, such as bears the
highest prices in our markets, and
finds demand for it there strong
enough to warrant regular shipments
of that grade, it will prove boon, and
boom too, for the dairymen of this
country. 1t will prove an incentive
for them to keep better cows, feed
more literally, and take more pains to
furnish an article that will sell at the
highest prices, or at least at prices
profitable to the producer. There is
no profit in making butter at ten or
twelve cents pound, but there may
be at twenty-five cents. And when
there is more profit in butter the price
of milk and other milk products must
increase.
We are sorry to see that some of the
Western papers are discussing SO freely
the question of the profit of "baby
beef" or steers and heifers sold as
yearlings. 1t may be that there is
more profit in fattening them young
as long as English buyers will vas
much for such beef as they would for
more mature animals, but we do not
like to think upon likely, thrifty young
heifers being fattened and slaug htered.
If of the beef breeds they should be
worth more as breeders than for fat
tsning purposes, and it seems like
killing the goose that lays the golden
egg" to select the best of them to fat
ten. The demand of other countries
for American beef is likely to increase
instead of decreasing, and few years
may find scarcity of good animals to
breed from. We cannot increase our
stock of cattle as we could stock of
swine or poultry. One calf year is
all we can reasonably hope for, and
seldom half the herd will be heifers.
Save all the really good heifers to
increase the herd, or to sell to those
who want them for that purpose, and
who would find it profitable to buy
them at handsome prices, instead of
attempting to breed good grades from
lot of scrub cows. And we believe
this is no less true in the beef grow
ing sections of the beef breeds as in
the dairy sections with the milk or
producing breeds.
A Western farmer who had been
selling his milk for two cents quart
thought he would try for apart of the
trade of a small town near him where
the retail price was five cents. He in
vited the people to come out to his
farm upon a certain day, and he
showed them over the farm, exhibited
his stock and explained his system of
feeding and general management.
Then came the milking. The milk
men came out with clean shirts and
snow white aprons, bringing pals of
hot and cold water. They thoroughly
washed their hands, and then the I'D
ders and teats of the COWS, with warm
water and CASTLE soap, rinsing them
carefully and wiping dry. The yes
sells for holding the milk were bright
and clean, the stables and stalls were
clean. The milk was strained, aerated,
quickly cooled and placed in cool,
clean cellar. All the details were ex-
planned to the visitors as the work
progressed, and they went home salts