The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-28
CREAM GRADING
PLAN PROTESTS
ARE ANSWERED.
State Dairy Commissioner
Declares Dickinson Club
Is in Error in Protest
WON'T HURT SLOPE:
Town Criers Club of Dickin.
son Claims ii will Destroy
Dairy Industry

Resolutions passed by the Town
Cricrs club of Dickinson, declaring
that the cream grading system to be
instituted in the state May would
destroy the dairy industry in western
North Dakota were declared today
by W. +. Reynolds, state dairy COM
missioner, to be doubtless passed
with good intentions but false all the
way through
On the contrary, Mr.. Reynolds, de-
clared, the system is to be put into
effect to aid the producer. He
characterized himself as a western
North Dakota producer, having d
dairy farm at Flasher, and probably
one of the biggest producers in the
state.
When newspaper inquiry was di-
rected to the dairy commissioner to-
day, he said he had not received the
resolutions of the Dickinson cluo
and expressed surprise at the text
Of the resolutions when read to him.
The Dickinson club, in resolutions
drawn by Clifford Smith, Joseph
ZIegler and {. II. Starke, the latter
Il member of the 1928 Legislature,
of requiring sale and purchase OF
cream by grades would injure North
Dakota in that it proposes IL discrim
Inution of 20 per cent for cream ha'-
ing the wild onion flavor. 1t as
serted that wild onion flavor is COM
mon in western North Dakota, where
native pastures are used, and as
serted that the flavor can be prac
tically all removed in manufacture.
Can't BE Removed.
"Thc wild onion flavor cannot he
"rcmovcd," Mr.. Reynolds declared.
IF anyone can remove it he has made
fortune. 1t can be prevented, how
ever. There is no onion flavor IN
morning cream because the gasses
which produce it have passed during
the interval between the feeding Of
the COW and milking. 1t can be
aviided in the night cream, he said,
Last year the onion season lasted
just 1G days and ordinarily lasts but
one month";" Mr. Reynolds said. at
will be short this year because the
conditions will cause quick growth
of grass"
The object Of the cream system is
to raise the quality of cream, Mr..
Reynolds said. When the same pr,ce
is paid for good and porr butter 1T
drags down the price to the hard
working and careful producer, he as
serted.
"How are we going to create a
market for North Dakota butter if
we sell poor quality, when Wiscon-
sin, Iowa ard other states grade
their cream and sell on quality
basis?" Mr.. Reynolds asked.
Protest Made.
The resolutions as recorded in the
Dickinson Press assert that the
cream grading rules are discrimin-
atory in that it classifies as rejected
cream, any cream which has wild
onion, French weed, potato, etc,
flavor to be purchased at a price -
per cent less than the price paid for
No. 2 cream, that "most of the pas
lures upon which the cows are pas
tured in western North Dakota are
natural pastures whereon grow wild
onion and French weed and other ma
tive flowers and grasses which inn
port a flavor to the butter fat dur
ing the months of April, May, June !
and July, Of each year." that "such |
flavors are practically all removed !
in the process of the manufacture of !
such Favored cream into butter and
other dairy products and do not de-
tract from the value of such cream
that such regulations will, if per-
sisted in, destroy the dairy business
in Western North Dakota" and that
the system is contrary to law.
The resolution was addressed to
Commissioner of Agriculture and La
Dor Joseph A. Kitchen and to other
Town Criers clubs in the state and
Carl Nelson, manager OF the
Northern Produce company, Bismarck,
in answer to question as to whether
the wild onion flavor can be removed
from butter said that "you can't re-
move the spots off leper." He
said the wild onion is like kerosene
put it in fats and it mixes with
them. and cannot be removed. He
said creameries had spent thousands
of dollars in experiments in an effort
TO remove the flavor. There is no
wild onion flavor on the mornings
he said.