The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-03
.STEARINE is BARRED.
IT'S USE IN THE MAKING OF ..PRO-
CESS" BUTTER MAKES 1T
CONTRABAND
FEDERAL oLEo LAW ADVERSE

FEDERAL oLEo LAW ADVERSE
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Heavy Tax-Dairying AS a Mon
ey-Making MISUNDERSTANDING VS..
Quantity In Butter Making
New England Has Milk
Trust.
The legislature has recently passed
and the governor approved bill that
requires all butter, the gatherings OF
rancid stuff from country stores, which
is worked over or renovated to bear upoa
Its package plainly printed label mark
ing 1t as renovated butter
This has for years been made voca-
ton by men who scour the country buy
ing butter that would otherwise go to
making axlegrease and, after putting it
through their processes, selling 1t for
creamery butter, there comes In the
fraud which the law seeks to prevent.
The processes vary. BY one the old
butter Is melted and then dropped into
trough containing Ice water, In which
the melted butter forms into granules,
which are then churned in sour milk,
washed, sailed and given a uniform color
BY another the melted stuff is run
through q separator, and in the aeration
much OF the rancid odor is thrown off.
The subsequent process is the same as
in the other.
10 give this renovated butter stiff
body some renovators add beef stearine
to the butter. but for doing this they
run themselves into conflict with the
United States revenue laws taxing oleo-
margarine and the state law prohibiting
the making of it, for this mixture makes
oleO of the product
The question is often asked whether
swer must be given, says the Iowa Home
stead in recent ISSUE Good dairying
pays. In 1t, as in other occupations or
special lines, there is always room at the
top. To those who are away below the
top dairying is no more an infailible road
to prosperity than is any other calling to
those similarly situated with respect to
1t. There are lawyers and doctors who
make very large incomes, and there are
others whose earnings are hardly equal
to those of a dry gods clerk in his teens.
Dairying will pay those who learn it well
and thoroughly, and who provide them
selves with dairy herds capable Of max
Ing good profit. 1t will not pay those
who jump into it without any knowledge
OF 1t or preparation for 1t, but who are
led to engage in it simply because, for the
time being. the prices of dairy products
seem to indicate that dairying is a profit
able calling.
Occasionally one hears of a man who
says he can get more butter out of milk
than butter maker can at a separator
butter factory. This may be and is true
In some cases, but not If the butter
maker understands his business We are
personally acquainted with many such
persons, and who actually do churn out
more butter by from 30 to 30 per cent than
there is butter fat in the milk, and this
is considerably more than any first-cIass
butter maker can do. Now, who Is at
fault-you who can churn such large
amounts, or the butter makers? We say
frankly you are the one who is at fault
Your butter contains too much moisture,
caseine, and no one knows what else and
II you send 1t to one Of the great butter
'centers 10 get 1t scored or sold on its
merits you would quickly find you were
not in IT. when it came to getting the
price Of extras.
One Of the latest things in the COM
mercial world that is Of interest to
dairymen is a milk trust. It is a COM
sbfnation with capital of $50, O0o, oO0 It
will be known as the New England
Dairy company, and will absorb all the
milk selling concerns in Massachusetts,,
Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island and
New York 1t would appear to a casual
observer that the farmers who supply
the milk, If ever the trust becomes OPP
.pressive, could institute whip-row very
easily. provided they would organize.
But there is the rub. The capitalists
can organize. even with millions at stake,
but the farmers will not. All that
would be necessary to do would be for
the farmers at every milk shipping sta
ton to organize a creamery and equip
1t and manufacture all their surplus milk
into butter and feed the skim milk to
calves and pigs. The milk trust bank on
the fact that farmers will not organize
and are not smart enough to keep their
surplus milk at home and divert it to
some other use, but that they must
helplessly sell 1t to them. the trust.
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