Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-02
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department OF the Farm-A Few
Hints as to tho Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
Dairy Notes.

The butter makers of the United
States will never be able to get a
foothold in the foreign butter market
without the help of butter inspection.
Whenever an attempt is made to Sc
cure for American dairy products
abroad good market, the little, mean
men take advantage Of 1t to send over
poor stuff with high sounding names.
Not till the government sends with
every consignment certificate OF in
spection will we find the way clear.
Even under the best Of conditions the
foreign market will be hard to hold;
for the reason that our own market
always bids high for the first-class
goods.
The Sibley Cows at Toronto.-A
curious trouble cropped up at the To-
ronto Industrial Exhibition, held in
August last. A dozen valuable cows
died early in the show week. and 1t
was at first suspected they had been
poisoned The investigations Of the
veterinary surgeons, who made the
post-mortem examinations of the ami
mails, showed that death had been
caused by the milk having been
pumped back into the cows udders
through the teats after they had been
MIXED out in accordance with the
rules. The stale germ-laden milk be-
ing absorbed into the blood circula-
ton set up blood poisoning, some OF
the udders turning black with morti-
fication in a short time. The board OF
the association decided to withhold
the prizes won by any of the animals
which died. The fraudulent attempt
to obtain prizes by such a gross and
ignorant violation of the laws Of ma
ture brought it's speedy punishment
Elk.
New York is making a vigorous fight
against illegal dairy products. 1t Is
reported that comparatively few OF tho
groceries are handling oleomargarine,
but that it is being quite extensively
sold by peddlers from wagons. These
wagons come over from New Jersey
and sell largely to private and board
ing houses. The officers OF the law
have caught a number, and the trafllc
seems in a good way to being stopped.
So say some of the reports. 1t was
however. but short time ago that
it was currently reported that oleo-
margarine was being extensively sold
in New York city by the grocers.
Either the first reports were erroneous
or there has been a sudden reform. 1t
Is of interest to watch the New YORK
situation as that state has taken the
position that oleomargarine shall not
be sold at all, either colored or I'M
colored. In most of our states the
dairymen are contending only for
law that shall make it impossible to
sell oleomargarine for butter. If New
York succeeds In enforcing her rad
ical law and keeping it on the statute
books there would appear 10 be no
good reason why national law d.
rected only against colored oleo should
not be passed and enforced.
Few are aware that filled cheese is
still being manufactured in Illinois, yet
such Is the fact. Recently ten cars
of neutral" were sent to one Of the
cheese making firms in the Elgin dis
trict, and an inquiry on the matter
ehoited the information that filled
cheese is being made for export, and
made under the revenue law. The
makers say that not pound Of the
stuff is sold In this country, but that
all goes abroad. At the last conven-
ton of the Illinois dairymen's conven-
ton Professor w. A. Henry Of the
Wisconsin Agricultural college re-
marked that we were now regaining
our foreign cheese trade, having stop
ped the manufacture of filled cheese.
Evidently he did not know that the
stuff is still being made for export.
Since the manufacturers have complied
fully with the law, it is doubtful if
much can be done to improve the sit
uation. 1t is said that every cheese
Is stamped in large letters "Filled
Cheese" so no fraud is perpetrated on
the first buyer; but the English re-
taller docs not probably warn his GUS
toners that they are about to eat
filed cheese. However, so far as it af-
fects American trade, it is difficult to
see how we are to suffer more than
Canada, for the stuff is more likely to
be retailed in England for Canadian
than for American cheese. 1t is to be
hoped that the English authorities
will see that it is sold only under it's
real name.
Poultry Notes.