Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01

that their product is colored simply to
give it a cheerful and palatable ex-
terror. If that is so why are dealers
exhorted before ordering to make sure
of its exact correspondence in color
with the butter offered from season to
season in the local market place? But
it is said that these men have to col
or theirs. l deny it, They are with
out the legal authority to do it in
thirty-two states of the union, and
without the moral right to do it any,
where in the United States. Why?
Because the coloring of butter, wheth-
err the practice be good or bad, mis-
leads nobody, wrongs nobody, Injuries
nobody; whatever it's color it is still
butter and nothing else. There is
something fatally defective in an in
vestment which spends more of its
energy in avoiding the police than it
does in the other departments of its
business.
Beef Fat Argument a Myth.
Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson,
unapproached in his own country and
unrivaled in any other country in the
world as student of the questions
with which the farm has to deal,
shows that the total amount of beet
fat used in making oleo is in the nat
ure of the case SO insignificant as to
find no expression in the market price
of beef But under his brief state
ment was a philosophy deeper than
that, for he pointed out that the days
of the range herd are numbered and
that the very life Of that business ev.
en- now depends upon the individual
homestead, with its bone fide settlers,
and the creamery near at hand.
No Iowa Pigs for Butter.
claim not only the right to speak
but | exercise an official duty in
speaking for the live stock industry
of a state that is first in swine, first
in beef cattle and first in the produc
ton Of milk cows. Our people can
not be shut out of the live stock asso
citation or any other well-regulated in
stitution. There is little pork ia
which is Tue form of neutral oil is uset
in making cleo. and nearly everybod!
in Iowa is raising pigs; but nobod.
wants to sell them for butter. so fal
as | have ever heard. Some fat o
beef is used, and nearly everybody il
Iowa is raising steers, magnificen
specimens, tracing their ancestr,
through the herd books of the ok
world; but you never meet anybod,
there who wants to sell them for but
ter. With hogs so fat that you nav,
to put casters under them to NOV,
them around the feed yard, and short
horns that balance weight of tw'
tons in the stock yards, l have heart
from only one man who appears t.
think that the live stock industry ha
anything to gain by Gripping the but
ter trade; for that whole communit
long ago learned from the counsel o
James Wilson that al the threshold 0
all permanently agricultural prosper
ty stands the coz with her calf by he
side.
4 No Cotionseed Oil Used.
/ Little or no cottonseed oil is use
in the making of cleo, and none at a
except in the cheapest grade. N
possible refinement of cottonseed o
takes away from it entirely its chara
Iteristic taste and no article desirin
to enjoy the undisturbed experience
:, bbutter in the market can afford to ca
ry with it the taste of cottonseed o.
The employment of cottonseed oil
this product has wholly disappearc
except in the cheapest grades. lhe1
are two far-reaching reasons Whic
ought to disassociate the cotton field
, from this lawless invasion of I'll
: rights of the American dairyman. Tt
| cotton belt gets more money by Il
sale of cottonseed meal to butter pr
} ducing states than it does from Il
sale of cottonseed oil to the oieo ia
: tories, many times over Beside tha
, as Secretary Wilson stated. the =
demption CT the worn-out fields of Il
south must come from the widest val
, alton in their tillage, combined wi
: such specialties in production as ha'
make the modern creamery univers
and an unfailing sign of thrift al
wealth.
Looks into Future.
, There are unnumbered reasons wi
. Mississippi, for example, should ha'
1 as much interest in the dairy as We
: mont | venture to predict that wit
) in twenty years the states of the mi
: die south will be the center of Il
butter-making industry of Americ
and that the children of its prese
Il representatives will be laughing at Il
f folly of their fathers who, for the sal
s of selling a few gallons Of cottonSe
d oil are lending the influence of the
j. honored names to the most destru
n i've fraud ever devised against Anne
lean agriculture
Have Right to Know What 1t Is.
Even those who like to eat oil
Is have right to know what they a
q eating, and those who are just able
q stand it when they cannot afford ar
i thing else, are entitled to have it sci
~ ed in such way that both the price
= it and the looks of it will put the
6 on their guard as to it's actual char;
e ter. In the celebrated joint-debate
;, Zophar with Job, he undertakes
!, show the state and final portion OF t
= wicked Curse after curse he ute
g as he tries to reach an adequate sta
=, ment of their misfortunes, he sh
- suck the poison of the asps and the
= pers' tongues shall allay him. t
y that is not all, the climax of loss a
~ penalty iss not yet reached. 1t is
, sudden retribution; no swift judgme
- from the skies. He hastens to prese
.. it to the Imagination of the affiict
9 patriarch-'he shall not see the rive
IL tho f1oodc tbo hroplyc of bopoy q