Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-04-20
Dairy Notes.

One hundred and twenty million
pounds of oleo oil exported from the
United States during the past year.
soy 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 tho
lower grades, such rs could be bought
at about one-half the price of strictly
fancy butter in New York or Boston.
IF in Denmark OF Belgium or Holland
they mix oleo oil and butter fat in
equass propof wesl,aya douht
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
thing. The amounts of butter they
have been reported as exporting for
the number of COWS kept woald be in
credible unless we believed either
this, or that the inhabitants of those
countries used no butter. but bought
olao and sold oil 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 q demand for it there strong
enough to warrant regular shipments
of that grade, it will prove n boon, and
boom too, for the dairymen Of this
country. 1t will prove an incentive
for them to keep better COWS, feed
moro literally, and take more pains to
furnish oil 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 OF
twelve cents a pound, but there may
be at twenty-five cents. And when
there is moro 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
heef " 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 pay a.
much for such beef rs they would fol
more mature animals, but we do no
like to think upon likely, thrifty younl
heifers being fattened and slaughtered
II of the beef breeds they shoul>. b.
worth more as breeders than for fat
tening purposes, and it seems llk'
"kiIling the goose that lays the COLDER
egg" to select the best of them to fat
ten. The demand of other countrle
for American beef is likely to increas'
instead Of decreasing, and few year
may find o scarcity of good animals tt
breed from. We cannot increase on
stock of cattle as we could stock o
swine or poultry. One calf q year i
all we can reasonably hope for, ant
seldom half the herd will be heifers.
Save all the really good heifers tt
increase the herd. or to sell to those
who want them for that purpose, ant
who would find it profitable to bu,
them at handsome prices, instead o
attempting to breed good grades from
a lot of scrub COWS. And we believ'
this is no less true in the beef grow
in; sections of the beef breeds rs II
the dairy sections with the milk O.
butter,producing breeds.
A Western farmer who had beer
selling his milk for two cents quar-
thought he would try for part OF th'
trade of small town near him where
the retail price was five cents. He in
vited the people to come out to nj
farm upon o certain day, and b.
showed them over the farm, exhibited
his stock and explained his system o
feeding and general management
Then came the milking. The milk
men came out with clean shirts ar.
snow white aprons, bringing pals o
hot and cold water. They thorough,
washed their hands, and then the I'D
ders and teats of the COWS, with warn
water and CASTLE soap, rinsing then
carefully and wiping dry. The yes
sells for holding the milk were brigh
and clean, the stables and stalls wer
clean. The milk was strained, aerated
quickly cooled and placed in a cool
clean cellar. All The details were ex
planned to the visitors 90 tho worl
aauad and thsv uank h0n; O nakis