Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — OUR’S ISN’T A FIVE CENT COW. [ARTICLE]

OUR’S ISN’T A FIVE CENT COW.

The Republican, for nothing better to say in defense of the local barbers’ trust, charges The Democrat man with selling the surplus milk from our full blood Jersey cow at 6 1-4 cents per quart, when the owners of common chalk-water cows sell for 5 cents.

Sure, and it's worth it, too. Just the richest kipd of milk you ever saw, and 1-4 pint of thick rich cream from every quart. Good feed all the time, both grain and pasture. Now if we owned one of those big, liimbering cows that it requires ten quarts of milk (?) to yield one pint of cream, and had a stand-in with the city marshal so we could with impunity vio-!

late the city ordinance by pasturing her on the rag-weed along the Streets, like a certain Republican editor that we could name; if we had a cow and a stand-in like that, we might, were we in the milk business, sell milk at 3 cents per quart —but we would feel ashamed to look a milk customer in the face because of taking his money and giving so little in return. But as there arfe, so the Republican states, 5-cent cows in the city, no one is compelled to pay 6 1-4 cents unless he wants to —we’ve formed no combination w r ith the owners of the 5-cent cows to boost the price to 6 1-4 cents. Neither is ours the only 6 1-4 cent cow in the city, by any means. 4’-