Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-22

Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
What the city woman needs is butter
that is standardized and always of a
uniform excellence-butter which
comes as fresh and comes as straight
as may be from the COW on the farm
to the table in the city dining room
With the husband singing in her ears
the song Of high cost of liying-and
what husband is not driven to such
songs in these days of high prices
she feels that she must get butter that
can be bought at something less than
the fancy prices charged il the exclu-
sive delicatessen shops to which she
is driven in her efforts to insure her
family a good grade of butter. Ask
her and she viii tell you that if coop
Grafton viii enable her to get good but
ter at q price made somewhat less by
the elimination of excessive distribu-
ton charges then she is heartily 1or
cooperation.
The city man Of course, wants a
good butter to eat. The farmer wants
to make money from his dairy. They
have been telling US in America that
direct cooperative marketing will give
each what he wants; that cooperation
has repeatedly accomplished these re-
suits where it has been tried in Ire
land, in Holland, in Denmark and in
Germany. If cooperation will do this,
it is well to look into it for good but
ter is important-and financial profits
are worth while. So some Of US are
over here in Ireland to see if co-opera-
ton really is a benefit both to the city
eater and to the rural producer.
The cooperative creamery here is
turning out good butter-none better
anywhere. We think we have found
why Irish butter is good, why it brings
to the farmer a good price in this city.
The butter is good because co-opera-
tive creameries use good methods of
butter making; because their patrons
get good milk from good cows, take
good care of it, and deliver it in good
condition to the creamery; and lastly
because when once made it is hurried
off to a consumer before it can get
stale. They get good price for it be-
cause it is good butter.
On the other hand, the city gets it at
a reasonable price because co-opera-
tive marketing in Ireland is direct
because the butter comes
quickly and directly from the cream
cry to the city home with little added
expense for much handling by many
Why Farm Butter Is Sometimes Bad.
The writer remembers summer but
ter made from cream skinned from
uncooled milk and kept on the warm
pantry shelf during the long hot days
until churning time. 1t was hardly but
ter-it was in fact commercially
ranked grease" It brought six cents
per pound, and as butter was worth
less.
Failure to make good butter was in
svitable. Nor were the tired farmers
wives 10 be criticised for the poor re-
suits obtained. They had no facilities
Tor keeping the milk and cream clean !
md cool, no facilities for making but
.er, no facilities for keeping it.
Cooperation Lighters Labor
What the woman on the farm most /
needs is to be free from the burden of |
he endless handling of milk, cream
md butter, from skimming the milk, !,
md churning the cream and from salt
ng and working and molding the but
all the labor entailed in the
PRODUCTION of homemade, handmade
,utter. She needs it if she is to have
my life outside the kitchen and the
milk room.
The laborious WEAKNESS of the I'M
ventful existence of the farmers wife
as produced many candidates for the
insane asylums. More than one worn
ut unfortunate has been taken into
ustody because her household duties
ave chained her to a maddeninS
unrelieved by opportunity
DR. intercourse, and have made impos- |
ible any thought above the churn and
ne cook stove. One Wisconsin farm
RS wife was adiudicated by the coun-
! Judge TO be afflicted with insanity.
fhen the Judge announced the deci- |
ION to the husband he was incredu-
JUS. ut can't be she's got insanity |
r anything else" he said. she's had
o chance to catch it. She hasn't set
foot off the farm for IL years and no
aighbor has stayed at our house long
lough to give her anything"