The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-16

wooden nutmegs. but the readers o.
this paper have never heard OF tbs
great success q man In this com muEi-
" once made Iva the butter business
IS l heard il the story was about a.
follows:
A gentleman who was running =
dairy farm, hired a man to look af-
ter his business giving into his hands
the Who!e management The cows
We're MIXED very early ia the morn
ing, and. before seven O'Clock the
milk had been brought into the city
and distributed among the dairyman's
customers. The dairyguan generally,
was up and had had breakfast by the
time the milk wagons returned from
the city. and his hired man was very
prompt I'm making returns. and his
showing OF the amount sold and pay
ments made By customers. was ali
right, and entirely satisfactory, but.
the dalryman couldn't understand
why customers complained Of the
poor quality Of his milk lie fed his
cows on the best cow-feed. and they
had the best attention, and he thought
they ought 10 give rich milk. IT al
most made him mad TO be told by d
customer that his milk had no cream
on it. for he knew il could not be- 50.
But it was 50, all the same, and IA
tell the reader how il happened.
One day a Raleigh man sent word
to the daiTyman 10 be sure TO send IN
10 him that butter his hired man
promised to send The dairyman came
to the city to see the man about the
message. He saw him and learned
from him that his hired man had
been furnishing him with butter
good butter-in fact the best Of but
ter-f0r year or more
Ny manager furnishing YOU but
ter You surely are mistaken said
the daiTyman, for we make 40 but
ter al my dairy.
Whether you make 1t or not, ] get
II from your man. and / know Of at
least a dozen people VINO take butter
from him. which he said was made
at your dairy"
The next morning the dairyman
was out about the COW stables Sc
GREETED. and he saw something that
astOnished him and explained the but
ter business. And this is what he
found out:
His hired man had secured a sep
arator and had established iu his oWn
house a butery. As soon as the COW s
were MIXED the cream. BY the use OF
the separator. was taken from the
milk. and while the milk wagons were
coming into the city with creamless
milk. the hired man was making but
ter of the cream. which butter h SOLD
TO customers who thought they were
buying il Of the dairyman. IL was
ascertained that. by thus robbiug the
milk Of its cream. he was making
about 80 pounds of butter a week
which he sold at 80 cents per pound
-Iu other words 80 a week. which. Of
course. was all profit AS might be-
expected, he lost his job.
Ii has been an addage from time
immemorial that The milIar's hogs are
always fat. but. why il was 50. was
not so we'll understood until a mill
owner in my young days. caught ~
with his miller. The trick OF the
miller was tollng the toll which HI
did b. using q toll dish that was I.
little smaller than the regular one.
but, 50 much like it, that the owner
OF the mill did not notice the trick.
The miller's toll dish three times filled
held the same quantity the regular toll
dish did twice filed so that the mill
er by tolling a bushel of corn OF
wheat three times took from the Gus,
toner no more than what was right;
but. by dividing the toll into three