Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-18

DAIRY and CREAMERY
TALKS By AN EXPERT ] Il |
CONTINUED from, Page ID
plant. From a business standpoint
alone, honesty is the best policy.
Nearly two years ago = predicted
that this plan of indiscriminate cream
buying would bring us back to the old
"store butter" days. We are there
today, only it is now "store cream"
i. instead of store butter but now as
then, everything goes" and at pretty
nearly the same price. The clean,
honest dairyman very naturally be-
comes discouraged at selling good
cream for the same price as poor,
and the buttermaker "fails" In trying
to make good butter from rotten stuff
that, starving hog would scarcely
eat. Reform is surely needed and 1t
must commence at the COW. But for
the sake of an industry that is worth
millions don't let it end there. Pay
the farmer for doing his dairy work
we'll, and he will do it we'll. Pay for
cream according to quality as is now
done with. all other crops and you will
get quality Or possibly get no cream
at all. "a t*%
| VI A Butter Trust.
Some express fears. Of a butter
trust. 4 sometimes think that the
quicker, We have one the better As
it goes now, there Is no uniformity
whatever. Cream that has been kept
for days in tight cans until it "smells
to heaven" is rejected at tone plant,
sent back and then ,re-shipped and
sold to another plant for a good price.
One man washes his separator twice
a day, another once week, and both
sell cream for the same price. Is
that "a square deal for all?" AS it
goes now, it is case where honest
+dog Tray gets badly treated on &C
! count of the company he is in. Then
let him get out of the company. If a
farmer has help and facilities there
for, he may very proftably churn his
own cream. and by securing private
customers for his butter make more
clear money than IN any other way.
And it will be .sclean" money too since
he must, to get the cash, make clean
butter from clean milk. But all farm
ers cannot do this. Such as are
obliged to sell cream can often do
better by changing from one plant to
Ianother, always asking cash for every
can on delivery, which is practically
| the common plan of all since the Cold
Storage Co., went under, with SO many
unpaid debts .l n Il. ~ s3 3. 1
OF course cream will vary In test a
little from day to day or week to
week, but on anSaverage ten gallons Of
cream this week should bring about
as much as ten gallons did last week.
but don't turn the calves with the
Icows until you have tried some or all
OF these plans, unless hich may be
the case-you have cows that are
only fit to suckle calves, and hardly
|that. The dairyman that succeeds is
the one who watches the closest, not
/ only the breeding and the feeding Of
4 This cows but all of the business deals
land methods whereby his product is
marketed. AS to telling where to sell
leach seller must be his own Judge. !,
Directions Not Needed.
Our enquiries as to honest cream
4 buyers are no doubt from those who
Lean and do furnish good cream. But
4 there are others. IA few directions
las to milking, etc. are here given but
they are hardly needed. We have all
Tread directions galore. The idea is
THAT those who follow directions gel
mo more at present than those who
lsend in any kind of stuff. This should
Ybe remedied, and may be by grading
}But before crying too loudly for hon
!. lest cream testers and buyers, the
farmer himself should aget honest
land anyways furnish an honest prod
Iuct. Then and not before will We
Ihaye the Right to demand and expect
!. honesty IN others. Wrong is wrong
! whatever the excuse for tt but right
wrongs no man.
TO Be Kept In Mind. 35s.
Don't keep the milk can IN tht
stable while milking.
Don't milk ave Or six cows before
lstraining Each cows milk should b.
, tempted as soon as drawn. .s
4 Cool the cream quickly after milk