Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-02-08

short time at best, and they'll turn
them over to the hired man who don't
know and don't care, and he won't run
run them right nor get right results,
And some will drop them onto their
wives and daughters who ought to
smash them; or they'll turn them over
to their boys. In many cases that will
BE- the last straw, for the boy knows
he can get to turn grind stone In sny
old penitentisry and his heart will soon
go out Of the work.
Now, I shouldn't object to their de-.
ceiving man once in while and tax.
Ing his good money because know
there are men who are just aching TO
be deceived. But what hits meis. that
after . certain number have put In
hand separators they compel US all to
do 30, because the creamery can't run
without sufficient patronage, and We
shall soon find we have returned to the
private dairy system just o. We did
after Stewart and his co.workers had
placed US on gold medal basis. 1--we
may Judge the future by the past, that
is bound to be the result again unless
we can weed out the seeds Of dissension
sown BY these hand separator agents
and hobby riders. We shall discover
that many OF US have connived at our
own undoing and helped to bust up the
creamery system second time, the
only system that ever made for us a
gold medal reputation or opened up for
US market world wide profitable.
But, my brother farmers, do YOU wish
to break up the creamery system? You
did 1T once in the memory Of us ALL. Did
you feel proud of the result? Did you
like sneaking into town with little
bunch of butter and importunipg some
one to take 1t off your hands at any old
price? For that's what It finally came
to In the days Of unsslted butter; and it
is what you may expect gathered ore am
to finally cone to.
Did those times produce OF a galaxy
OF gold medal stars like the Stewards
OF then or the Smarzos Of nowp Not
80 you could noticeit. Then why can't
you see wcat you are doing when you
are fastening an interlopsr that sooner
or later is bound to put every cream.
cry In the country out of business? And
why don't you patronize your cream.
cries intellectually and II you live
In a community where the creamery
isn't all right, 60 to work and with
your good sense and half the expense
of putting in hand separators, make
them right, II you have to build all
over new. But to return to any hand
process won't help you. You could
hoe your corn. Your boys could plant
1t by hand. Your wives and deugh ters
could card, spin, weave and make the
family clothing by hand and without
the sewing machine, but I'm glad to
relate to you that there is no such
facts. The greatest hindrance to con.
tinued improvement have been those
agencies which have always tried to
turn US back to the private dairy avs
tenn out Of which We have been lifted
to gold medal basis twice In my life.
time. lst, by the Stewart creamery
and again by the Smarzo creamery.
Another great hindrance is the man
with hobby. He wants everyone to
help him ride 1t. No sooner Is q
creamery established in his "nsbor.
hood" than he wants hand separator
and he is bound everyone else shall
have one also. It doesn't help the,
next year the hobby is old and he /:
chasing some other chimera for he
sows the seeds Of discord wherever be
goes. His earnestness makes converts
even though his logic is as faulty al
the old apple woman, who said, "Gen
tlemen, these apples cost me 81 bar
rel and II you don't believe me III
show you the Darrell" And he is MAD
II you doubt his statement, even though
I you may know by your own persona
experience that he errs nightly IL
judgment II he doesn't lie outright
I'm sorry we have so many Of him IL
= the dairy business for he does lots O
> mischief.
The arguments used in favor of the
!, private dairy creamery or the hanc
I separator system sound right, that is
I that on the farm is the best place to d,
all this butter work-that it's cheaper
3 cleaner, will give the best results snt
( achieve the highest excellence. Blu
. history has failed to prove it. In fac
q 1T proves just the opposite go that any
p argument based on this proposition ii
o is just as faulty as the analogous de
I ductions of the old professor, who
e when he discussed that a flea coult
Jump 1900 times his height, immedi
: ately announced that man could jun,
mile and half high. The answer
] to his supposltion is that q man cam
i and to the other one that the priyat.
dairy can't, never has and propsbl,
never will compete In progress Will
the whole.milk creamery system.
r Denmark, the country which showed
8 US the way to the separator creamer,
r system, has been experimenting will
t gathered cream from hand SEPARATOR
). but they have thrown them away be
a cause they have found out just what W.
a found out when we returned to tn.
Q private dairy and unsslted butter. Il
8 that the quality of the butter deterio
4 rated SO rapidly that they couldn't af
e ford 10 retain the system, so they hav.
e returned entirely to the whole-mill
b creamery system. This is the repor
o of Prof. Kennedy, of Ames, who is ovel
: there for year or less to study the