Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — THE DAIRY. [ARTICLE]

THE DAIRY.

.Losses frotp Poor Manufacturers. In the dairy business, especially where cheese and butter are the staples, the farmer is a manufacturer, and the salableness of his product depends largely on his skill. It does not all depend on this, however, for the proportion of butter and cheese that is wholly unfit for food is often so large that it detracts from the price the best would bring if it were not weighed down by this inferior stuff, which only competes because it goes under the same name as that of good quality. It is much gained to have the fraudulent compounds, oleomargarine and the like, branded for what they are; but the work will not be complete until the poorer qualities of butter are ruled out of the market as unfit for human use. Rancid butter is not even good for cooking, as, however it may be disguised, it flavors whatever it is cooked into, and thus lessens the demand which using good butter for cooking would increase. In many places poor butter is so generally used for making butter crackers that they are discarded for milk crackers by all having any regard for their stomachs. This is only one of many ways in which the use of poor butter lessens the demand.—American Cultivator.