The Bowbells tribune., 1900-02-23
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of tho Farm-A Few
Hints ~ to tho Care Of Live Stock
and Poultry.
Dairy Notea.

and Poultry.
Dairy Notes.
Every man that brings back milk
from the creamery tc feed to his stock
should insist that it be good milk, for
only good milk is fit to feed. Rotten
milk will injure him at several points.
Frequently indeed the bad milk is due
to patrons not delivering it in time,
but that is no reason why the long
suffering patron that does do right
should not bring up the question. Per-
haps it may result in reforming the
patrons that are remiss. At any rate
it may secure an improvement.
The farmers are now reaping the re-
suits Of neglecting the dairy cows.
They thought when the low price of
butter came on few years ago that
it would always continue and so be-
came careless of the breeding and
feeding of their dairy cows. Some of
the farmers bred their cows to beef
bulls and got half-beef calves, which
they let run with the cows, arguing
that since butter brought so low price
they might as we'll save the cost of
hired milker and get good beef at the
same time. Now that butter is very
high they are unable to take advantage
of the rise. This is always the fate
of those that are continually changing
their methods.
Attend the dairymen's conventions.
This advice is given to all of our read
ers that own and milk cows. The as
sociations of dairymen are not alone
for experts: they are for all that have
interest in dairy matters. The larger
and stronger these associations the
easier will it be to protect both the
producers and consumers Of butter.
Every member of dairy associations
should call on his neighbors and lay
before them the advantage of becom-
ing members of the state association.
The membership Of the various asso-
Citations should ramify into every Sec
ton Of the respective states. We need
to learn the power Of combination. We
need to learn the value Of coming to-
gether and working in unison. It costs
but 81 per year to join any of our
dairymen's associations and the cost
of attendance will be more than repaid
by the good received.
At the recent convention Of the 1lli-
nois Dairymen's Association this ques-
ton was asked by defender of the
free and unrestricted sale of oleomar-
garine: IF we had no oleomargarine
how much would butter be worth to-
day?" The answer by Mr.. Moore was
fitting and to the point. He said that
If it were possible to suddenly stop
the sale of oleomargarine the price of
butter would be far too high, but II
there had never been a pound of oleo-
margarine manufactured the price OF
butter would be no higher than 1t is
Today. The high price of butter is due
largely to the past severe competition
of oleomargarine, which made it so
difficult to sell butter at even cost,
that multitudes of dairymen went out
of the business. The supply was cut
to such an extent that now that better
times have come it is impossible to
supply the amount of butter the mar
ket demands.
Reports from the west say that in
some sections the creameries suffered
greatly the past year because the farm
ers lost interest to such an extent that
they did not bring their milk oftener
than once in three and four days. The
result was that the milk was In such
poor condition that good results in
buttermaking could not be obtained.
This is lamentable. It is hard thing
for buttermaker to spend years build
ing up a reputation and have it shat
tered in q few weeks. It is much more
difficult to build up than tear down.
Every patron of creamery should
realize that he has to bring milk in
the best Of condition If good butter is
to be made out Of it. If the creamery
is a cooperative one he suffers at once
for his wrong doing, and, worst Of all,
many of his neiguOors also suffer. If
it is an individual creamery he will
suffer ultimately, If not till the sue
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bad reputation for butter will not be
able to pay as good price another year
as it would had it good reputation.
The friends of oleomargarine be-
lieve that the men that are trying to
get restrictive legislation are making
war on the rights Of poor people to
buy a cheap food product. But that
is in no sense the case. The dairymen
are not fighting to stop the sale Of
oleomargarine. They want only to
stop its sale as butter. We will illus
trate by an incident that actually oc-
Cured and is constantly occurring in
Chicago. A man wanted to buy five
pound pail of the best oleomargarine
and went to the Fair to get it. He
found a big sign over the counter say
ing "Only oleomargarine sold here"
He purchased five-pound pail Of oleo-
margarine at cost of 16 cents per
pound or 80 cents. On his way home
I &1,ox ha would o1co nurch a GO