Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-25
Dairy Notes.

Dairy Notes.
Reports from the eastern seaports
tell of butter being sent back from
Europe and having to be sold for pack
ing STOCK or even for grease. 1t was
reported to have been put up in such
poor shape that the boxes did not stand
the journey and the packages became
broken and their contents injured.
Whether this was the reason for their
rejection by the English we do not
know, but it is certain that this man
uer of shipping butter is poor recon-
mendation for it's sale on any market.
Would Canadian butter have been sent
in any such shape?
In New York state the violators of
the oleomaEgarine law are being prose-
cuted vigorously and the cases have
resulted, when brought into court, in
the securing of verdicts for the prose-
cutors. One case went up to the SD
preme court and the prosecutors were
upheld. There will evidently be no
supreme court decision in New York
|pronouncing the oleomargarine law IL
legal, as has been the case in Michi-
gan, and as is threatened in Illinois.
Some of the Chicago manufacturers
have also violated the internal revenue
law in sending oleomargarine into New
YORK state without revenue stamps on
each tub. About 200 tubs were recent
y returned from Albany to the makers
| (th1aQpn h11f fho lot
take them from. the cars, fearing ar
rest by officers of the national gov
eminent for not having used revenue
stamps.
Inc dairy farmer is more prosperous
than most of the general farmers,
largely because his business is more
OF cash business than theirs. The
enect is seen also on the tradesmen in
dairy communities. The credit sys-
tenn is with many tradesmen stretched
to the limit. We have heard of some
farming communities where the farm
ers do not settle more than once a
year. This is very hard on the men
that sell them goods, especially on the
men of small capital. The farmer
must needs be charged good round
interest in the way of a higher price
Tor goods. Not only does the trades
man frequently lose his bill, but in
other cases the farmer, keeping no ac-
count of what be buys, finds himself
deeply in debt, often so deeply that he
cannot get out without making some
great sacrifice. The dairyman re-
,elves his pay as he goes and pays as
ne goes. This is best all round 1t is
system that is bound to make him
master of the situation, and moreover
win for him the respect Of every man
with whom he deals.
The good price of butter this fall and
winter should stimulate winter dairy
ing. The industry seems to be expert
encing the results of former low prices
in butter and present good prices of
beef. In some sections of the west and
northwest the low price of both grain
and all kinds of meat turned the at
tentlon of the farmers to dairying
But as soon as beef began to bring
good prices the farmers began to neg
lect their dairy cows for their beef
cattle. In most cases they had stuck
Ito the beef cattle to some extent even
for dairy purposes. In Minnesota par
ticularly comparatively few Of the
dairymen had herds of pure bred dairy
cattle. AS the profits from such COWS
must necessarily be small it is no won
that as soon as beef began to rise in
price the producing of beef became a
larger item in their eyes than the pro-
ducing of butter. We believe it to be
a mistake for the farmers in any sec
ton of the west to let up on the pro-
duction Of butter. Milk products are
bound to bring good price in the flu
ture, and the man that goes into dairy
ing with any kind of determination to
make it succeed, and begins to develop
good herd of the right kind of COWS,
will be doing the wise thing. The
price of butter is more stable than the
price of almost any other product of
4 the farm.