The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-17
WILL SELL IN EUROPE
AMERICAN-MADE BUTTER FINDS A
READY MARKET ACROSS
THE WATER
GOV. LIMBS IDEAS ARE GooI

tainingly of MfnnesOta's Growing
concentrations Touching ON This
Subject Should Receive the Con-
sideration of the Legislature.
While the investigation made by the
state labor bureau of the creamery
business has been somewhat limited,
some valuable information has been
collected by Deputy Jules Moersch,
who has spent the last two years on
the road inspecting all kinds of rural
manufacturing establishments In an
interview with The G o b yesterday
Mr.. Moersch said:
In his message to the legislature
Gov. Lind called attention to the steady
growing Importance of the dairy indus
try of Minnesota and wished that the
state food and dairy department be
authorized, in conjuncture with the
faculty of the agricultural college, to
formulate and adopt rules regulating
the sanitary conditions which must be
observed in Minnesota creameries in
order to entitle their products to be
known as Minnesota creamery butter
Gov. Lind's recommendation deserves
earnest considera ton, and the present
legislature should give full power to
the food and dairy department to act
In the direction indicated.
Minnesota creamery butter wherever
1T appeared in home or foreign mar
kets found ready buyers and brought
good prices. That the foreign market
can be extended there is no doubt.
Consul Frank w. Mahine, of Reich
enberg. Bohemia, says. in a recent ar
ticle: If American butter can be sold
IN Europe at the same price as Euro
pean butter, the former, on account of
Its superior quality, will find ready
markets European butter may seem
equal to the American product on the
first day after it is churned, but gen.
orally by the second or third day it
will have an old, strong taste and smell
Whether this Is on account of the but
ter being not sufficiently worked or
whether the difficulty is due to the
practice of keeping cows in barns all
the year round, instead Of pasturing
them, Is not known to the writer.
AT Reichenberg table butter sells at
80 cents pound. There is practically
no variation in the price OF butter in
the various seasons of the year. The
duty On butter shipped into Austria is
cents pound, and the freight from
America would be probably no more
than the duty.
Consul General J. g. Stowe, of Cape
io"h' HOulA AlIICd, reported, unOer
date of Sept. II, 1893, of having been
Informed that in the two months pre-
vious to his writing 5000 to 1000 boxes
OF butter (of fifty-six pounds EACH had
reached Cape Town from America. via
London. This butter had been sold as
Australian butter, all American marks
| having been erased from the boxes and
Australian marks substituted. BY this
procedure all credit to the products of
the American dairy industry is lost.
but the action is nevertheless prima
facie evidence that the American but
ter is satisfactory, although some COM
plaint had been made that the butter
was too yellow. American producers
should have trade marks or brands Of
their own. duly registered, and, If pos
sftle, government stamps or marks on
the packages.
Answers to inquiries as to the pos
sibility of finding a steady and profit
able market for American butter in
Germany point to the industrial cities
Of Crefeld, Cologne, Elberfeld Barmen
and Gladbach as promising markets. In
| view of the fact that Minnesota cream
! cry butter gained a reputation wher-
| ever 1t appeared in the market. both
In the East and abroad, and that the
| Importance which our dairy industry
has already attained, so that it is more
| profitable than raising wheat. Mime
sofa dairymen should help to secure
every possible means to maintain the
reputation for their product and ex-
pansion of the foreign markets.