The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-19
GOING UP, SAYS
! CREAMERY TRUST
Butter Advanced to Thirty
Cents and Worst Is Yet
to Come.
HOW THE PRICE is FIXED
TELEGRAPHIC ADVICES TELL
AMOUNT PUBLIC WILL STAND.

Butter mas gone uD IN price On the
local market from 25 cents to 80 cents.
The expectation of the one who eats
butter was that the price would go
down instead of going up; but as man
or, rather woman-proposes. so does
the trust dispose. Everybody is glad
that butter has gone up except the I'M
fortunate and reckless spendthrift who
sticks it on his bread with a barrel
stave and then wonders why in heav-
ems name it costs so much to buy but
ter.
During certin periods of the good old
winter time butter mounts the height
OF 40 cents the pound. Very well, says
the housewife, it's high, but we must
have it. and We'll feed the children
more molasses and sorghum and SUI
CARED lard. But when butter reaches
so cents the pound at q time when but
ter ought 10 be cheapest, there are go
Ing 10 be some inquiries, and don't let
that fact slip your mind.
Housewives of long experience say
that at this time Of the year the price
Of butter ought not to be above 80
cents. 1t is the time of year. they say,
when the cows browse in the most lux
uriant pastures and produce the rich
est OF milk They can be patient with
the butter man In winter time when he
Is up against it with reference to feed,
but they cannot understand how they
ran be patient when the COW. in the
height of her glory, is dealing the very
best hands she ever dealt
Twenty-three for the Retailer.
The retail dealer says he cannot sell
butter for % cents the pound, because
he loses money on a 2-cent margin
butter being quoted to him at %. The
hat ArrAN has
gone up and that he's glad of it The
reason for it. he says. is because butter
is scarce in the east and in the west,
and that the people who manufacture
butter in the regions where il is not
scarce make more money by sending
It east than they do by offering it to
the home markets. People in the east
want butter, and they are paying the
price demanded by the west.
|. n. Parker. the chief official of the
Elgin dairy, said: THE butter market
is controlled by the committee that
meets at Elgin each Monday. This
committee knows all about the butter
market. It knows the past. present and
immediate productivity of the butter
makers-it has the thing down to
science. This committee fixes the price
for the ensuing week. Yesterday We
received our Geographic quotation.
Here IT is-23 cents.
We must guide our business by the
price fixed by this committee; We are
advised daily by the Elgin people
How does that affect the local stu
alton, Mr.. Parker"
well, they make butter in Colorado,
and they ship it east When the Colo
RADIO supply is exhausted or is on the
decline. 1 might say, Utah is called
upon TO send butter thitheT. We are
sending-that is, Utah is-great guam
titles of butter into Colorado right
now, and there is none coming into this
state to speak Of The country west
of here-California-i sending practi-
Cally no butter at all
Advance PIeases EN-.
Il want TO show you a circular letter
which We have just prepared for pro-
ducers. Here it is:
I'VE are pleased to advise you of
an advance of l cent a pound in the
price of butter and butterfat. This is
the second advance that has taken
place the present month. On the first
OF the month butter advanced from 20
to 81 cents, and now to % cents.
The price of butter both in east
ern states and California is from % to
23 cents. This high price makes ii pos
sible for the dealers in Utah to allow
the cream producers the full benefit of
the outside market
AS you understand, We could rot
maintain q high market in Utah with
a low market In the east or west, since
butter can be shipped from the east
10 Utah for a little over 1 cent a pound.
we look for better market this year
than we have had for several years
past. Farmers should bear this in mind
and produce as much cream as posi-
bic.
Skim ten gallons of milk Get one
gallon Of cream, and il will test from
30 to 40 per cent butterfat.'
I'VE are pleased to advise you of an
advance" viii strike the consumer as
being really after the fashion of Arte-
mus Ward.
I'VE do not look for a decrease in
the price of butter" said Mr.. Parker,
but. rather, ] would say, that butter
will continue TO go up"
1T will be remembered that Califor-
MIA producers put a crimp in the
creamery trust several weeks ago by
shipping butter nearly 1000 miles and
undertaking the local market. There is
nothing small about CalifOrnians,
when they take a mans pocketbook
they usually leave him enough change
for his next meal.
One of the retail dealers on Market
row says: I'VE are governed solely by
the price fixed by the wholesalers. We
simply cannot sell butter for 25 cents
as the wholesale prices are now
The Straight of 1t.
II had a long talk with one of the
finest Jersey cows that pasture in the
fields along the Wandamere line about
this butter business" said Johnnie
Burke to his friend, Sol Olson, land she
told me that she was doing the best
she could. and that that best was bet
ter than il had ever been before, for
the grass is fine and nutritious and
was willing to work overtime, and did.