Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-12

Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
What the city woman needs Is Duttel
that ia standardized and always OF
uniform excellence-butter Whlch
comes as fresh and comes as straleh'
az may be from the COW on the larm
m the table in the city dining ROOM
With the husbend singing IN her ears
the song of high cost OF lVlnS-ahu
vbat husband is not driven to such
songs in these days of high prices
che feels that she must get butter that
ran he bought at something less thah
the fancy prices charged in the eXclu-
siye delicatessen shops to which she
is driven in her efforts to insure her
family a good grade of butter. ASK
her and she will tell you that II coop
Grafton will enable her to get good out
ter at a price made somewhat less by
the elimination of excessive dlstrlou-
ton charges then she is heartily LOT
| cooperation.
The city man of course, wants a
! good butter to eat. The farmer wants
to make money from his dairy. Ihey
have been telling US in America that
direct cooperative marketing will give
each what he Wapts; that cooperation
has repeatedly accomplished these re-
suits where it has been tried in Ire
land, in Holland, in Denmark ana IN
| Germany. If cooperation Will 90 thls'
il is well to look into 1t for good but
| fer ia important-and financial prohts
are worth while So some OF us are
over here in Ireland to see If co-opera-
tion really is a benefit both to the city
cater and to the AIral producer.
The cooperative creamery here Is
turning out good butter-none better
anywhere. We think we have tound
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 1t IN goou
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 1t be-
cause it is good butter.
On the other hand, the city gets 1t at
a reasonable price because co-opera'
tive marketing in Ireland is direct
marketing; because the butter comes
quickly and directly from the cream
ery TO the city home with little added
expense for much handling by many
middlemen.
Why Farm Butter Is Sometimes Bad
The writer remembers summer but
ter made from cream skinned from
unccoled 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" 1t brought six cents
per pound, and as butter was worth
less.
Failure to make good butter was in
evitable. Nor were the tired farmers
wives to be criticised for the poor re
suits obtained. They had no facilities
for keeping the milk and cream clear
and cool. no facilities for making but
ter, no facilities for keeping it.
Co-Operation Lightens LABOR
What the woman on the farm mos
needs is to be free from the burden o.
the endless handling of milk, cream
and butter, from Swimming the milk
and churning the cream and from salt
ing and working and molding the but
ter-from all the labor entailed in the
production of homemade, handmade
butter. She needs 1t ii she is to have
any life outside the kitchen and th'
milk room.
The laborious WEAKNESS of the un
eventful existence OF the farmers WIG
has produced many candidates for th'
insane asylums. More than one worI
out unfortunate has been taken int
custody because her household duties
have chained her to maddenint
monotony unrelieved by opportunity
for intercourse, and have made impos
sible any thought above the churn ant
the cook stove. One Wisconsin farm
er's wife was adjudicated by the coun
ty Judge to be afflicted with insanity
When the judge announced the deci
sion to the husband he was incredu
lous. ut can't be she's got lnsanit.
or anything else" he said. She's hat
no chance to catch it. She hasn't Sc
a foot off the farm for IA years and NJ
nelghbor has stayed at our house loni
enough to give her anything