Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — PROFITS IN DAIRY BUTTER. [ARTICLE]

PROFITS IN DAIRY BUTTER.

This is the time for dairy butter. Farmers have been giving this product less and less attention in recent years and as OQ® result of this oleomargarine, as a cheap substitute, has come into use It has been observed during the months of phenomenally high prices that the butter substitutes are flourishing to an amazing extent. Thej are taking a place in the world’s commerce which ought to be held by good, wholesome farm butter. With plenty of choice dairy butter, retailing at 25 to 30 cents per pound, oleomargarine wduld be driven from tae tables of American families generally. When creamery product is selling at >4O to 50 cents, thr oleo comes quickly Into common use, because there is not enough dairy butter to meet the demands. The substitutes get their start and hold a large and valuable trade simply because the farmers are neglecting their opporturity to furnish sufficient supply of fair to choice dairy butter. Not ail farmers are located near enough to creameries so that they can deliver their milk once a day without unreasonable travel. Those who are not should keep butter dairies, large or small, according to circumstances, and market their product once a week. This is in the line of diversification and It is a paying proposition. It should not be all dairy, nor all poultry, nor all hogs, nor all corn, but a Vise mixture so that the farmer always has something for the high markets. A little pushing along the dairy line just now is justified both by, present prides and future prospects. When farmers can get 25 cents or more for a fair quality of butter, as at present, there is money in it for them and they can afford to give that branch of 'husbandry a great deal more attention than they do.