The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-21
BETTER BUTTER
AND MORE Of
IT IN v|RG|hNl
Dairy and Food Commissions
er Stirring Up Interest
in Situation
GOLDEN STREAM GOES
WEST FOR SUPPLE
For First Time Virginia VIII
Be Exhibited in Com
petition With West
Next Week

The Dairy and Food Division OEaa
the department OF Agriculture H4@
making arrangements for a good rep-9s
resentation of the creamery iuterest04
at the National Dairy Show, which d
opens at Chicago on October Is and u
will continue a week or more.
This VIII be the first time that vfrnS
ginia butter will enter into compnSss
ution with the Western product akSs
the National Dairy Show and. fr0rI
the high scores made by the Wiz
GINA article at the State Fair lat
week. it is to De believed that the
states creamery interests will mako
a credftable If not a large showinnSs
at the Chicago exhibit.
The exhibit will be under the charras
or Peyton Rowe, State dairy Inspector.
who Will leave for Chicago Sundarg
night to complete arrangements for
the Virginia exhibit
In an interesting interview upon 4
dairy and creamery conditions III u
virginia yesterday Commissioner W..
u Saunders told of ten work his de-
partment Is doing for the purpose 81
stimulating butter-making in Virginia.
AL this time hundreds of thousands
or dollars are being sent out OF the
state every year to Northern and
western dealers for butter consumed 4
in Virginia. Fully ninety per cent.
of the creamery butter used in yfr.as
ginia comes from without the State.
according to Mr. Saunders, there bein9
no supply in Virginia that can be re-
lied on for the usual demands Of the
trade.
Stir Up Farmers
III Is the purpose of the Dairy ana
Food Department to stir up the farIue 4
ers OF the State to organize creams
cries wherever a sufficient butter-faf 4
supply can be arranged for in order
that in the course of time this stream
OF gold which now enriches othe9
Commonwealths may be diverted u
home-owned enterprises
There are now in Virginia sonos s
twenty-five creameries. There IL de-
mand for\ali the butter that several
hundred well-supported enterprises 0l@
this nature could produce Mr. 6aun
ders says that creamery in order
10 be success should have not lea1fa
than a hundred pounds of butter
fat daily In order that the operattrN
consume too large proportion o.
the selling price Of the product. Thcro
are creameries in the West who's
output runs close to the nine hun~
dred pound mark daily Theer ar6s
few creameries in Virginia which pre-
duce more than a hundred poundN 4
daily
Owing to the fact that a very lar91s
proportion Of Individual butter-makes
-s,,t. Il
high grade product the few who makM#'
a surplus do not realize much froukss
It. There Is no telling the amoun&
that has been sold to Virginia farms
ers by reason of their failure to turn
out high-grade butter product. tho
cost Of which is no greater than th3@
low-grade article.
tuberculosis Situation.
One OF the interesting facts meuy
toned by Mr. Saunders was thaAs
tuberculosis among cattle in vIr4
ginia was encouragingiy rare. H.
the whole years work the depart4s
ment has found but one infected her16
Mr.. Saunders believes that with propGGg
effort and the expenditure Of a reaSOn1
able sum OF money tuberculosis
among cattle can be exterIninAted t1sS
Virginia within four years. The bat
TIE against the disease has hecrN4~n
more effective. said Mr.. Saunders. Co..
the reason that disinfectants are mOrM$
literally used. more thoroughly eradS
eating the disease when diseased co1AX
tie are discovered in the herds.
That the creamery business has 4
great future in Virginia IL believo kS
by everyone who has given ARE
thought at all to the matter. ThNF4FR
is market unlimited virtually fO9M
the product. Virginia grows readttl
every variety of hay and the graneaMS
1t grows them with a superabundAne~S4
that is astounding. There - H8ss
reason why cattle by the tens QyzS
thousands should not adorn every h1ll
side and dale. bringing wealth A.
their possessors and furnishing TN
State with clean. sweet, wholcsoE14&
supply OF butter and milk.