Graham guardian., 1908-05-22
Farming News
Dne Thing the Creamery Should Do

ropri,tary, the proprietors are
90 ignorant of many of the things
sey ought to know. If co-opera-
tive, the managers are too ignor-
ant While at the last Iowa
Dairymen's Convention in Des
Moines, we'll known leader in
dairying in that state said to us:
"In great many of our cream
cries the managers and the butter
makers do scarcely any reading
on dairy topics. Consequently,
they are not live, stimulating CEN
ters of dairy thought and progress.
la what condition would the peo-
pie be If the school houses were
the centers of ignorance concern
ing reading, writing aud arith
metic?
What the cause of dairying needs
is thorough shaking up Of the
creameries and cheese factories
They are not awake to some of
the dangerous conditions of the
day. We spoke last week OF the
effort put forth by the oleomarg.
arine millionaires to get control of
the DAIRY industry just as they
have got control of the meat in
dustry. With the latter, they have
the farmers of the Nation fenced
up and fenced out Of the market
on cattle, hogs and sheep, for
through the aid of the railroads,
they virtually control all the APP
proaches and the inner workings
of the meat markets.
Through the aid of their enor-
nous capital 10 establishing cen
tralizers, they propose to sap and
mine the dairy industry 10 the
same way. If the farmers who
supply the milk were intelligent
enough to the situation, does any
one suppose they could be trapped
in this way? If the creamery
managers and buttermakers were
inlelligently alive to the meaning
of all this, would they sit idly by
and see themselves coralled like
cattle?
At the bottom of 1t all lies this
widespread indifference to sound
dairy knowledge, this refusal to
read, study and become "as gods
knowing good from evil Hoard's
Dairyman might shout itself hoarse
on this or any other danger, but
what good would it do for it or
the rest of the dairy press to warn,
if the men who are the most IN
terestcd do not see, do not hear?
For what should the creameries
do? Being centers of daily inter
est they ought to unite 10 strong
effort to promote campaign Of
dsirN -ednnatip9 -amonp-the farm
and cream. If the farmer can be
made to see this dairy question iu
its right light he will stand like
rock and "as sure foundation +"
he will see that his commercial
aud industrial liberty is at stalk.
He must be made to understand
the importance TO him Of the local
creamery; the Importance of his
doing his part of the work, milk
and cream production, in "a wo, k
manlike manner. TO this end he
must read more on dairy questions
He will never be intelligent on
larry matters until does.
The need of more intelligence is
seen everywhere. The dairy in
crest is suffering at every joint,
because Of the great wastes Of
ignorance. There is bat little
tudy of true economics because
here is too little dairy intelll-
,ence. Let us call things by their
light names. The creameries must
top fighting the farm separator.
they must do what they can To
make the farmer an intelligent
mix and live stock producer. The
armer, not the creamery, should
70 their first concern. Start the
york of an annual COW census.
mong the patrons; show them
Vhat their poor cows are actually
oing for them; show them, by
harp comparison, the difference
0 profit between the good herds
nd the poor herds. They will
OF long remain contented with
oor cows and ignorant methods,
nder the blaze Of such light.
he creameries must take the in
iative in this and other matters
{ dairy education.
The discontented patron is the
reat menace to the local cream }
ry. He is discontented because
Q does not know the right way,
le right thingto do. The cream.
~ as rule does nothing to m Ak J
i'm intelligent. If the local
'eamery continues TO exist, the
rmer must be made more in
elligent dalryman.
Ii the local creamery ceases to
Sist, the farmer will become the
lbject OF the big meat trust, the }
eomargarine manufacturers, and
is once fair industry aud his com :,
ercial liberty will be swallowed
? by this great monopoly -
cards d a,ryman.
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