The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
BEST DIARIES ARE HERE.
American MIX and Butter Compared
with European Products.


Dairy experts Of the Agricultural De-
partment say that our management Of the
dairy business has greatly improved In the
past few years Some ten or twelve years
ago we sent to Europe a great many in
ferior cheeseS which gave a bad name
abroad to American cheese. and our ex-
porters suffered from this reputation for
number of years. The superiority OF our
dairy products is, however, again recog-
nized in foreign markets.
One of these dairy experts who has re-
Gently been making special Investigations
in Europe, says that not many years ago
some of the foreign milks supply establish
ments in Europe were greatly superior in
many respects to the best In America
To-day, although some of the European
milk companies do a larger business and
have more extensive and costly plants than
we have built, there are a considerable
number of city milk supply establishments
in this country which surpass any of the
European plants. They are superior in
their buildings and equipment, the eff
cheney of their management and In the
purity and high average quality Of the milk
and cream served to their customers.
1t Is a remarkable fact that at the special
show of perishable dairy products at the
Paris Paris, E Exposition lin IN July 1900 where
exhibiting their goods in the best possible
shape. the only samples of natural milk
and cream which were sweet and paltable
diaries in New York and New Jersey, then
eighteen days from the cow. There was
also exhibit Of natural milk and cream
from a farm In central Illinois I'm bottles
exactly sent daily to Chicago families,
and although twenty days old the product
had kept sweet until the day before the
show; and even later 1T was better than the
best French milk only from twelve to
twenty-four hours after milking. The
American product had been preserved
solely by cleanliness and cold, and no milk
supply company In Europe duplicated this
performance
The expert adds that there are many
private dairies in the United States which
world; and the same is true OF our best
creameries. The best creamery butter is
| quite the equal of the best Danish, but
| there is such uniformity of product, and
| large proportion Of our butter is inferior
| in quality. This results from the wide extent
| of territory and variety IN climate and local
| conditions which affect the 5000 more
| creameries. 1t is also due to the great
| differences In methods and management.
| There is ample room for Improvement
| in American creameries, but the only for
eign country from which they can profita-
| bly, learn is Denmark, where the best
| creameries models of cleanliness, good
| order and systematic management
| The investigator says that the butter OF
| Holland has lost its commercial standing
because it is so commonly adulterated and
| sold as genuine butter. In nearly all other
| parts of Europe laws restricting and regu-
| lating the margarine trade are strict anC
fairly we'll enforced.
the very highest price in the London mar.
ket, and superior butter Is made elsewhere
| in France in limited quantities Yet the
| average quality of French butter Is second
rate Belgium is a grade higher. while
Sweden and Finland may be placed still
higher and Denmark easily holds the plac,
| of honor.