NECESSITY OF MAKING GOOD BUTTER AND THE 

 FARMER'S PART IN ITS PRODUCTION AND SALE. 



BY JOSEPH KOLARIK, ASSOCIATE EDITOR CHICAGO DAIRY PRODUCE. 



Chicago. 



To the farmer who has had the opportunity of corning into direct 

 contact with the consumer of butter, as one who is selling butter to such 

 consumer, little need be said on the first half of this subject the necessity 

 of making that butter GOOD. 



On the making of good butter, good all over, good all through, and 

 good all around, depends the prosperity, the very income, of the farmer 

 who keeps cows for the production of milk. The consumer of butter, who 

 is the man out of whose pocket comes the price that means the milk pro- 

 ducer's profit, has the right to dictate to the maker of butter what kind 

 of butter he shall make for him. The farmer has been too slow to realize 

 this. The farmer has gone right ahead and made butter good butter, 

 indifferent butter, and poor butter as if on the assumption that the con- 

 sumer had no choice in the matter and would have to take what there was 

 to be had. But as population has grown and consumers of butter multi- 

 plied, the demand for good butter became more and more insistent, and 

 to-day is so markedly earnest that the effort of every farmer, of every 

 creamery man, and every buttermaker, must be strongly enlisted in pro- 

 ducing the only grade of creamery butter now wanted the premium-taking 

 Fancy Extra. 



It is this insistent demand for a uniform quality of fine butter that is 

 the foundation of our present day creamery system, as it is only through 

 the creameries that sufficient butter of desired flavor and uniformity and 

 quantity can be produced. There is, to be sure, a great quantity of good 

 butter churned in the farm dairies millions of pounds of it that finds 

 a more or less- satisfactory market and a more or less satisfied consumer. 

 But wherever there is a good creamery wherein is employed a good butter- 

 maker, the producer of milk will without the least question of doubt serve 

 his own interests in the highest and fullest degree only when he becomes 

 a regular patron of that creamery. 



"Good butter send us good butter," is the demand from the market 

 to the butter producer. The necessity of making good butter is seen in 



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