Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — THE DAIRY INDUSTRY. [ARTICLE]

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

The Commissioner of Agriculture Issues a Circular. [Washington telegram.] Commissioner Co'lman, being anxious to obtain all the facts possible pertaining to the dairy industry of the country, and particularly respecting the manufacture of articles designed for pure butter, but* terine, suine, petrola and the like compounds, has prepared a circular to manufacturers of dairy products. It is his wish to place before Congress and the country a complete statement of thefactoryproduct of cheese and butter, as well as of their adulterated imitations, and he suggests the propriety of making monthly records of the work of each manufacturer, in order that returns may be obtained more readily for such time as may be deemed best to aggregate the result October, he says, being the month when cheesemaking declines, it may be decided to have ail the returns of butter and cheese production terminate then, allowing six months for the dairy season. This would better determine the comparative production of one State with another, as in the summer months the conditions of food will be more uniform, the cows consuming alike the natural grasses.