The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-01-05

Yankee round silos."" One Of them
built one last year, intending to MI II
with Indian corn, but had to be salts
fed with filing it with oats and tares.
1t made sour silage. but he reports
that the cows ate it greedily. It is
expected that many more of these
silos will be constructed. The stave
silo is, we believe, bound to supplant
oil other kinds. It is especially
adapted to localities where the farm
ers are in 'straitened circumstances but
are inclined to experiment with the
silo. The great cost Of constructing
some of the square silos makes 1t diff
cult to introduce them into new locali-
ties. The round sllo will prove to be
pioneer in many parts Of the world
as we'll as in q few sections of our
own country.
We have before referred to tho at
tempt to be made by buttermakers to
get tax OF 10 cents per pound put on
oleomargar;ne colored to represent but
ter. This seems just thing to do, as
it leaves under the two cent rate all
olecmargarine not colored to initiate
butter. It is the fact Of imitation that
must be fought and not the fact of the
making and selling of substitute for
butter. Rye and barley are used as
substitutes for wheat, and we would
not think of making law to prevent
their use as substitute. It is the de-
ception that is harmful and not the
fhinu nrNrYfSaI hA fh}re iS hon1fhfnl
But now there is movement on foot
among certain dairymen to change the
issue. At one or two national meet
tngs Of associations that represent
more or less the dairy interest. the
words 'colored to initiate butter" were
stricken out, and resolutions passed
asking congress to pass law putting
tax of 10 cents per pound on all oleo-
margarine. To us this seems very
unwise thing to do. People have
right to purchase oleomargarine if they
want it. Some may want to use it for
wagon grease. II the National Dairy
Union insists in fighting along this
line. it is about certain it will fall
In obtaining the legislation demanded.
Not only will the city people be against
them almost solidly, but very large
proportion Of the country people have
so much regard for justice that they
will not indorse the fight. Besides, the
National Dairy Union has raised money
for carrying on the fight against col
ored oleomargarine. Have they a
right to divert the money to fighting
uncolored oleomargarine?
discussion has been started by a
hotel paper on the use of cheese as q
diet. 1t lays the blame on the cheese
makers because the latter do not make
cheese that is At to eat and that is
put on the market in a green state. A
dairy paper replies that the grocers
are as much to blame as the makers,
that they do not show enterprise
enough to build a curing room and
buy up good green cheese and cure it
for sale. 1t appears to us that 1T is
entirely out of the question for the
grocers to do this The writer IN tho
dairy paper quoted knows that the
matter of curing rooms is large one,
that it requires good deal of knowl-
edge along dairy lines for a man to
fully appreciate the value of the little
things entering into the curing of
cheese. II our cheesmakers find it diff
ficult to make proper curing arrange
ments. what are we to expect Of the
city grocer? Besides, If the grocer
should construct curing rooms he
would be never sure that he could get
cheese that would cure into first-c!ass
salable cheese. for he would be pow
erless to control the details of maxi
ing. This question of selling green
cheese Is discussed at about every
cheesemakers' convention We attend.
The makers justify their selling OF
cheese uncured by saying that the gro
GERS demand it. for they know that
they can sell that kind of cheese with
out loss. Most of the cheese that is
ripened and put on the market is SO
sharp that the public will not buy it,
and a well-ripened cheese is in the
minds of most people sharp cheese.
Our makers do not seem to have
learned yet the secret Of putting on the
market a well-ripened mild cheese. OF
course some of our cheesemakers do
make such cheese. but we refer to the
general mass of >cheesemakers. Ger
tainly the sale of cheese is greatly cur
tailed by the fact that. most of the
cheese on the market cannot be eaten
except at a risk of disarranging the
whole digestive system of the eaters.
How the difficulty is to be overcome is
a problem for the cheesemakers' con-
ventions to solve.
There is a report in circulation Of q
movement on foot to introduce hog
raising on a large scale into Siberia.
There is no doubt that the industry is
already established there but it seems
hardly believeable that It can ever as
sumo such proportions that it will
menace the position N the foreign
market Of our own pork products. Ac-
cording to the rumors mentioned,
great European syndicate is being or
Sanized with a capital of $50. 000. 900.
1he intention is not only to raise hogs
in Siberia but to provide Transports