Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-02-08
EENRY BRAYToN y
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GEO s. LISTER
HENRY BRAYToN.

GEO s. LISTER
HENRY BRAYToN.
In arriving at decision Of this ques-
lion We must consider carefully all the
agencies that have brought about i'm
proyement in the making OF butter,
discover what system has been respon-
sible for the highest excellence and
what have been the greatest hindrance.
In looking at the history OF the dairy
business we find more or lees anthem
tic record OF the making Of butter from
milk for about four thousand years
coming along down to the days Of Abra-
ham we find 1t recorded that upon 8
certain visit Of the angels he did set
butter aud milk before them and they
did eat. This was doubtless the hand
separator product, for these angels
never came back. Some 800 years later
the same good book says that Job. did
aunoint his feet with butter made from
milk, (no mention Of any creameries
about this time) 80 this must have
been the good old hand-painted kind,
because the. same record says that
Job broke out all over with boils."
He ought to have expected it. What
do you suppose 1t would have done to
him 1.-The had eaten 1t? Doubtless, like
the angel who sampled Father Abra-
hams gold medal dairy, he never
would have returned for a second dose.
And so the improvement went on, "the
same old story in the same old dairy
way" for 1000 years more, and we
find that pioneer butter buyer, L A..
LOOMS, Of Manchester, packing Della.
ware county dairy and skunk skins in
the same box for shipment to New York
City, and by his record the skunk
skins sold first. About this time, and
during these first 1000 years OF i'm
provement, we find AL. Thorpe packing
butter in barrels at his fathers store
10 Delaware. They had but one liza
dle;it was 9 hot day and AL was in q
hurry to go fishing, so he and Will
Herrick jumped into the barrels bare.
footed and stamped the butter down.
There must have been some improve
ment in butter since the DAYS OF Job,
for AL escaped the boils, though
"Kalsmity" has stuck to him ever
since-iu name,
Now, gentlemen, all this recitation 10
history is only to emphasize the fact
that there never had been any very
striking improvement In dairy butter,
or The process by which 1t is made, in
all these centuries Of effort along pri.
vate dairy lines. But now comes q
second Abraham, the herald of q new
system, the father Of the creamery in
the west, the maker Of that reputation
for gilt edged Iowa butter that wat
crowned with golden laurels for high
est excellence in competition with the
world at Philadelphia in 1S78-Johr
Stewart
he began with the milk pan and
milk rack, In the 6avs OF VanDeusen
and set about the production OF uni
form quality OF butter. They did have
horse power churn, and that was 6
"hoss" on the old methods to begir
with. From that time on improve
mentin methods and quality and ma
chinery was rapid. Men who made the
making Of fine butter business and 6
study had attained such degree of ex
cellence that they rivaled Stewart'l
own pupils More Improvement gentle
men, In these few years of creamery
effort than in all the centuries pre-
vious along private dairy lines. 1 re-
member two communities west Of
Strawberry Point in these days before
the advent of cresmeries, the people UP
there were all In the hands OF the
ShylocKs, pay pg Lowell & Corbett ano
others eighteen per cent for little
money TO tide them over their little
shortage between crops, and they spent
very little money, too.
Two creameries were built in these
communities in 1876 and 1875. and In
five years time the change was magi.
cal. Little bills were all paid up, ev.
eryone was prosperous The Shylocks
and eighteen per cent were knocked
out Of business
But men soon forgot, petty differ.
ences crept in, small grievances, ETC.,
and the farmers became afraid the
creamery men were making too much
profit. Many got penny wise and
pound foolish" and thought by buying
private creamery tools they could save
all these profits for themselves. Jus,
as they are beginning to think again
when they COMPARE the hand separator
with the creamery, these ideas were
carefully fostered and added to by men
who had the tools to sell, Mems pre-.
JUDGES we're appalled, to in many cases,
his Ignorance taken advantage OF, his
love Of riding hobbies and following
fsds made use of by ag. nts with ss
much persislerce and ingenuity as Pat
used to get into the show Pat wanted
to 20 in, but he had neither ticket or
price, SO he sided up to the door and
backed in. The door keeper saw him
backing in and thinking he was going
out gave him q return pass. Same
with the hand separator now, no one
can keep them from "butting in" AT.
ter all this, then came the harvest just
as 1t had been planned by the men who
had private creamery tools to sell,
when men forgot how much hard
work, how much careful attention to
detail, how much expert knowledge