The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-21
THE DAIRY AND CREAMERY.


Some one has written "An honest
man is the noblest work of Cod" And
not very long ago some one else arose
to say, Eyes, and about the scarcest."
And now, right now, from the two Da-
kotas, Minnesota, Manitoba, and posi-
bly, some other states. comes an anx-
ious and almost hopeless query for
just one honest cream buyer or but
man, as they quite often are. The
average farmer is so thickheaded, SO
dull and ignorant that he cannot pos
drop in the price of butter in Elgin,
cream from 40 per cent down to 80
or less. He of course expects the cut
in price but the cut in the Babcock
test is what "sorter" confuses him
Now in this world we must, to some
These long Dakota miles cannot be
MIXED here at all we can hardly see,
sale of the cream. The hand separa-
tor, the express train, and the large
refrigerator system, are fast building
up system of dairy production hith-
erto unknown, but to make and keep
it successful, all concerned must work
together for the common good and the
best results. Any graft or skin game
cannot long survive.
Cheap Cream.
With cheap land and fine chance
to raise his calves on the split milk,
the farmer of the great plains can and
does furnish cream as cheap as any
one ever has or perhaps ever will.
He may not organize trust but he
will very soon set his calves to milk
ing, as many are already doing. OF
course, supply and demand will govern
prices but as long as the markets of
the world can be plainly read by any,
and all alike, it is not much use to
try to fool the farmer.
Now to keep this already great
business should be the aim of all con-
cerned from cow to the cold storage
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"
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 a 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 mill
lions don't let it end there. Pay the
farmer for doing his dairy work we'll,
and he will do 1t we'll. Pay for cream
according to quality as is now done
with all other crops and you will get
quality or possible get no cream at
all. "a g.. z Z Z
A Butter Trust.
Some express fears of butter
trust. I sometimes think that the
quicker we have one the better. AS
1t 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 one plant,
sent back and then re-shipped and
sold to another plant for a good price.
One man washes his separator twice
q day. another once week. and both
sell cream for the same price. Il that
a square deal for all?" As 1t goes
now, 1t is case where honest dog
Tray" gets badly treated on account
OF the company he is In. Then let
him get out Of the company. II
farmer has help and facilities there
for, he may very probably churn his
own cream. and by securing private
customers for his butter make more
clear money than In any other way
And 1t will BE- Clean" money too since
he must to get the cash, make clean
butter from clean milk, Bnpt all farm
ers cannot do this. Such u are