BUTTER-MAKING ON THE FARM.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1160, 25 May 1894, Page 6

BUTTER-MAKING ON THE FARM.

Mr C. L. Gabrilson. secretary of the • </ lowa Dairymen’s Association, and a practical private dairyman, read a paper on the abovo topic before the lowa Convention, from which wo select as follows : Since the introduction of neighbourhood creameries butter-making on the farm has almost become one of the lost arts in many households. The churn having been relegated to the garret to keep gran'ma’s spinning wheel company, butter is obtained from the factory. So that, with the disappearance of the wheat crop from most lowa farms, there actually exists the anoma* lous condition of well-to-do farmers having to buy their bread and butter as well as stocking yarn. For the farmer whose conditions are such that the conveniences for buttermaking, together with a desiro to excel, are not present, the introduction of the creamery has been a financial blessing. While for those who arc willing and are so situated as to bo able to devote their attention to the details of buttermaking, there is a broad avenue for income and satisfaction open, where they move at a leisurely gait without being joslled about or trodden upon. The farm manager who sets out to produce a superior article can, if he will, excel the most perfect output of the creamery, for the reason that he can control conditions which are beyond the factory man's supervision. This is proved by the prices which many dairymen receive. The satisfaction just mentioned as a result of private enterprise in this direction consist* in the compliment which is inferred from the eagerness that ’s butter is called for. Yet this is aside from getting satisfactory prices, without which compliments would be as sounding bass or a tinkling cymbal It is true, however, that the introduction of a co-operative system of handling milk and cream has greatly enhanced the value of the dairy product of a section where creameries are in operation, by reason of which the individual or private dairyman is enabled to secure higher prices for his article.