Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-01
QUALITY OF BUTTER PIVOT
Standard Must Meet Worlds Test TO
Give Omaha Market.
CREAMERY MEN LIKE GATE CITY
All Members Of National Association
who Met Here Are Impressed,
but Grade Of PrOduct Set
ties the Prices.

On the proposition OF producing a quality
OF butter which will meet all tests In the
markets Of the world, rests the Omaha
butter market and perhaps Omaha
setting the price in the greatest dairying
district in the world.
As a result Of the meeting In Omaha Of
creamery butter makers from all parts OF
the country, the creamery men have a new
enthusiasm In making Omaha a butter
market and there Ia now little doubt that a
price committed will be selected and within
a short time Omaha extras and the
Omaha market flashed practically around
the world.
The making Of a butter market depends
on quality. Though the National Associ-
alton OF Creamery Butter manufacturer
has nothing to do with market nor price
making, the Omaha market was thoroughly
discussed by the leading butter makers u
the country. They told Omaha creamery
manufacturer plainly that IL omaha made
a butter Of quality. which would be a
standard in the market of the world, there
was no doubt that Omaha would make the
prices along with Elgin and New York
City. Immediately there was a meeting
Of the butter makers Of Omaha. They
passed a resolution ten words or less in
length. It simply said that the creameries
here which turn out the best butter would
also turn out the finest butter and make
the price.
All Men Are Impressed.
]. II. Rushton, president of the Fairmont
Creamery company, who originated the
idea of a National Creamery Butter Manu-
facturers' association, said:
I'VE had but little opportunity at the re-
cent meeting of the national organization
TO discuss the butter market proposition
for Omaha, as II is a matter entirely Tor
eign to the purposes Of the association, but
the creamery men individually we're much
IMPRESSED with the Omaha creameries and
will assist us in organizing a butter mar
ket IL we furnish the quality. This we will
do, which means that Omaha will be a
butter market and price maker.
Prof. G. l.. Mckay, secretary of our
organization, has travelled around the
world looking over the creameries and the
methods of handling dairy products. He
told us without qualification that his visit
to Omaha was a revelation to him, that
Omaha creameries besides making more
butter than any other city in the world,
were the best equipped, and he believed we
could produce the quality which would set
q new standard in creamery butter making.
Means Much to West.
The organization Of the butter market in
Omaha means much to the west. At pres
ent the prices are made at Elgin and New
York. Prof. Mckay said while in Omaha
that he frequently doubted the accuracy OF
the Elgin and New York prices, not be-
cause the committees were not conscien-
tious. but because 1t was hard for them to
stcure all the Information necessary in
order to fix a price which will be fair to
the butter makers OF Wisconsin. the north
and east and at the same time to the pro-
ducers and manufacturers of the west,
where dairying is rapidly becoming more
than the crossroads business which II has
= been for half a century.
The market in Omaha msRns.ihst a price
committee will give due consideration to all
conditions in the west, the supply and de-
mand, the prices OF feed and cost of trans
portation before setting the price for the
I nished product which naturally regulated
the price for the butter fat or the amount
TIE farmer receives for his cream. In
J short, according to creamery men, Nebras.
. kans viii make prices for Nebraska and
western products, instead Of those in the
east, who are liable to think the cows are
half buffalo and still MIXED by Indians.