The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-03-17

Paper Read by III. w. Harvey Before the
Farmers Association of Antwerp and
Paw Paw, March z, 1908.

The creamery industry is no more
matter of debate. 1t has passed the
experimental stage. 1t is an estab-
lished fact. There is only here and
there a lone Thomas who doubts, and
he does so much from lack of inform
alton or through prejudice or con-
ceit.
No form of labor saving machinery
has been more successfully or uuiver-
sally introduced than has machinery
for the manufacture of butter. 1t has
swept over this entire union with in
credible swiftness. Milk pans, water
separators, churns, butter bowls and
ladies have gone Gathering down be-
fore it.
The old drudgery is being done
away, and in its place has appeared
fine art. The factory with its nice
ly adapted appliances is appearing IN
almost every hamlet and village. In
the great flourishing states of the
West they are becoming as numerous
as the school houses. Michigan itself
is fast being dotted with them. They
are the coming institution in dairying.
Twenty years from now the churn
and ladle will lie alongside the spin
ming wheel and reel in the attic, or
will be arranged as curios and relics
in the parlor
My reasons for this are:
First. The growing intelligence
and common sense of this age. 1t is
/ s IF n
Ingenuity is taking the place of stolid
ox-like labor. The man of to-day is
seeking a substitute 20 do the heavy
lifting. He believes that there is
power better able to do this world s
] Juggling than mere human muscles.
Instead of sweating his own and his
wife's life away, he believes that
boiler of hot steam can do the sweat
! ing for them and do it cheerfully and
better. 1t is a mechanical age. The
benevolent laws are being called in to
/ help women as we'll as men do their
/ heaviest lifting, and there is no heav-
/ Ter lifting in the world than working
a churn dash hour after hour and
then squeezing the butter milk out of
the butter with an old fashioned ladle
! Why hang onto a churn dash as some
of our ancestors hung onto a sickle?
/ Why be dragged away from ladle
as some of our slow going progenitors
were dragged or shamed away from
| fail? There is as much excuse for a
loom as there is for a butter bowl in a
modern farm house. We have out
lived these primitive things. Why
remain in an age gone by? Why not
have some pride and march at the
head of the human procession, and
not come Struggling along at its tail!
First. This is a mechanical age.
Second. 1t is cooperative age.
mo man liveth to himself is good
text for the 10th century. Never was
! humanity so complex, so dependent,
so involved in the great arterial cir
cults of human change and inter
change. We must be mutually help
full. 1t is an memorable law. One
hundred men band themselves to-
gether to do in body what they cam
not do working singly and alone.
The one churn with its one tireless
arm of steam does the work of 100
weary arms of flesh.
One wagon draws the butter away
and sends it to the great distributing
-center of commerce.
One man superintends all this work
instead of the 100 men or women ira
Yelling to the town in the 100 buggies
or wagons and peddling the product
out to the groceries for trade or a lit
tie cash.
Is there no economy in this? No
good common sense in the matter of
business? Is there no saving in time
and travel? One man skilled in the
business, an expert educated for that
very purpose, does all the manufact-
uring and marketing. He ships il
out of the oftentimes congested home
market and places it where it can be
found by the worlds great distribut-
ing laws of supply and demand. The
farmer need not leave his dooryard or
neglect his work for an instant. AL
this is done for him far better than
he can do it himself by this excellent
and helpful law of cooperation.
Third. The creamery is a partia,
solution of the hired girl problem, al
least in the country. There is nc
help for it, the age of hired girls has
gone by. 1t will never come again
The question now is who or what is
to take her place?
The house wife is more and NOR,
left alone in her work, and some o.
these house wives of ours are grow
ing old, many of them prematurely
old. Just at the time when they ough
2 to begin to sit down and fold thei
hands for a little rest, they find tn,
tasks accommodating and no one to hell
= them. What is to be done to keel
! these house wives young? How shall
! we thrust back these advancing wrin
kles and gray hairs?
| There is one way at least. Let tina
=, great, good natured, smiling, buxon
servant girl, steam, do the heavy lift
} ing and drudgery. Tie an aproi
around that jolly old Bridget, tn
steam engine. Let her get her power
fu1 and willing fuUarc around II, a