1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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tubs. This is known in this section as 
tub butter, and may be bought for 15 to 
17 cents per pound, while genuine but¬ 
ter is 28 to 30 cents according to quality. 
I can understand why people living in 
a city or town where they could not keep 
a cow, or, perhaps, when hard times 
compelled economy, would buy the in¬ 
digestible stuff ; but in the country, to 
see people with their own cows giving 
milk, and making butter, sell the butter 
and buy oleo—for their own table, dis¬ 
gusts me—I confess that I cannot under¬ 
stand it at all. Upon further inquiry, I 
have discovered one neighbor who makes 
from 8 to 10 pounds of butter per week, 
and sells it in town for 30 cents per 
pound the year ’round ; yet every four or 
five weeks, a 10-pound tub of oleomar¬ 
garine will come to him by express from 
the Woodlawn (Oleo) Dairy. Yet that 
neighbor is always crying that there is no 
money in farming. 
On the Town Farm, nothing is bought 
in the way of butter; it is all oleomar¬ 
garine or tub butter , as they call it. One 
of the overseers of the poor uses it on 
his own table, and says that it is good 
enough for the inmates of the Town 
Farm. But the superintendent has to 
use it just the same, or buy his own but¬ 
ter out of his own pocket, in spite of the 
fact that he is engaged for so many dol¬ 
lars per year and keep. Still the Town 
Farm keeps a large herd of cows, and 
sells milk to a Boston contractor for 2% 
cents per quart. 
This is not all ; I could fill The R. 
N.-Y. for a month with the names of peo- 
vle who keep cows, who (nun farms, and 
who rrutke butter to sell (but not to eat 
themselves), and who use oleomargarine 
and butterine on their own tables. The 
only way I can account for it is by what 
they call New England thrift; but I call 
it stingy and miserly to sell the best and 
ruin their health with this poor substi¬ 
tute for butter. How can they expect to 
get a market for butter, when the peo¬ 
ple who make butter support, by their 
patronage, the enemy who is killing the 
dairy trade with oleo manufacturing ? 
So long as the people who live in the 
country and keep cows, will buy oleo 
or butterine, and encourage opposition 
by using counterfeit butter, so long will 
it be manufactured and sold. From my 
inquiries in the towns around here, at 
the markets and groceries, I am informed 
that their trade in oleo and butterine 
is nine-tenths country trade, not town 
trade ; the other tenth seems principally 
to be in low-grade boarding houses. I 
have investigated this thoroughly, hav¬ 
ing been about two months digging for 
these facts. Now, what do yim think of it? 
Norfolk County, Mass. wa. wylie. 
A MILKMAN WHO EATS “OLEO.” 
The R. N.-Y. continually reiterates 
that a plenty of inferior goods tends to 
reduce the prices of all similar classes of 
goods. In face of this, and the competi¬ 
tion of butterine, open and concealed, 
what is the state of the butter market ? 
Why ! good to extra butter is only for 
the rich, fair to good for the well-to-do, 
“ cow grease ” for the multitude ! I 
milk cows, but sell milk and buy butter. 
For a year, the price has ranged from 
26 to 38 cents per pound, a large part of 
the time 34 to 36 cents. As I must econo¬ 
mize somewhere, I eat bread, and let 
the hired boy eat butter and bread. Fre¬ 
quently it is so rancid that “not any” 
is vastly preferable. 
Last winter, I met an old acquaint¬ 
ance, a “ drummer,” and he cleverly led 
the way to butterine. Being on the last 
end of a month of frowy butter, I was 
inclined to listen to the “song of the 
siren.” A 20-pound tub of best butterine 
would cost $4, and so I said, “ Send it.” 
Having used cottolene instead of lard for 
years, I had very little prejudice in the 
matter. 
It came in due time ; it looked very 
nice, it did not taste bad, and it was 
cheaper. I read what The R. N.-Y. said 
about an anti-color law for butter, and 
the Massachusetts law prohibiting the 
coloring of oleo. I say that that law is 
an outrage, and the dairy interest will 
deserve the reactionary blow it will be 
sure to receive. I am not 40 years old, 
and remember when my elders were air¬ 
ing their likes and dislikes of firkin but¬ 
ter. At the same time, it was considered 
an act of moral turpitude to color butter. 
Now look at the capital devoted to manu¬ 
facturing butter color! The American 
people are much addicted to the use of 
salted, yellow grease on their bread, 
potatoes, etc. They do not favor rancid 
grease, which, however, is so common 
that its absence, or the degree of ran¬ 
cidity, has become, to a large extent, the 
standard of quality. 
1 earnestly hope that the Massachusetts 
Anti-Color Law may be extended to in¬ 
clude butter. I would then buy butter 
by taste and smell, and buy it cheap, 
too, for a while, I think. To be sure, 
farmers are having hard times, but they 
need to learn to recognize their friends, 
and where to look for their enemies. 
Let them undertake to show the public 
how to distinguish between butterine 
and butter. Butterine has no smell of 
butter, and very little taste. As I told 
the seller, I had eaten bare bread so 
long that it seemed good to have some 
non-rancid yellow grease with it. You 
may fight oleo to the soap kettle, and 
deliver the last cow-robber to the meat 
block and the farmers will still be on 
the rack, because interest, rent and taxes 
will continue to absorb more than the 
aggregate increase of wealth. 
Massachusetts. e. l. small. 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
LINES TO A PIG. 
I know many animals of different color and shape, 
Manner of life, and social degree, 
That run on the land, and fly in the air, 
And swim in the depths of the great, cold sea. 
But among them all I know not one, 
Be it rare or common, small or big, 
That fills my heart so full of delight 
As a little, fat, spotted, chub-headed pig. 
Whoever saw contentment so real, so grateful, 
In any greedy, fussy, mortal man, 
As is stamped on every square inch of a pig 
Fast asleep in a tipped-over milking can ? 
And the humor of the happy little chap! 
The qulrl of his tail, and the cock of his ear, 
As he stands so still pretending to listen. 
Though he knows very well there’s nothing to 
hear. 
Many thousand times more funny to me 
Is his queer little wiggle, when he tries to play, 
Than any joke that was ever cracked 
By a humorist “star” on the stage for pay. 
Then, did you ever know such honesty in man? 
Why, though pigs, by chance, be as black as tar, 
They make no pretense of being white, 
But they’re willing to pass for just what they are! 
Their noses at times may get a bit dirty. 
Their habits of life may not all be quite neat— 
But their soiling is all on the surface, 
It does not reach down into the meat. 
Oh, the dear little chubs, how I love them! 
And I don’t care if they are nothing but swine ; 
But I’m sure ’tis not true that they have no souls, 
For I know they have a portion of mine. w. k. r. 
Wild Cherry Lightning. —In The R. 
N.-Y. of July 20 and of August 3, are re¬ 
ports of cattle being poisoned by wild 
cherry. Our farmers’ insurance com¬ 
pany of Cattaraugus County, were noti¬ 
fied to send an appraiser to the towns of 
Lyndon and Franklinville to adjust the 
loss by lightning of two cows, each be¬ 
longing to two parties. I went first to 
Lyndon to examine and report. By in¬ 
vestigation, I found that one cow had 
died on the spot where she, no doubt, 
had eaten wild cherry leaves. The other 
cow was 20 rods away from the cherry 
that had been cut the previous morning. 
The leaves and twigs were eaten by the 
dairy of some 15 cows. Some seven miles 
from there, another party had been cut¬ 
ting bushes, and browsing his dairy of 10 
or 12 cows for the past 10 or 12 days, and 
was very confident that he had cut no 
cherry. But by thoroughly examining 
the ground and bushes he had cut we 
found six small wild cherry trees from 
which his cows had eaten the leaves. 
These, two cows were but from 10 to 12 
rods from the cherry, and both cows 
died within 25 feet of each other. In 
neither instance was there any indication 
of lightning, and taking the reports from 
so many men in The R. N.-Y., the board 
of control of our insurance company 
rendered their decision to that effect. 
J. C. S. of Virginia, in The R. N.-Y. of 
August 3, tells us that the families of 
Amygdalus, Prunus, Laurus are also 
dangerous for cattle to eat. We poor 
fellows away here in the woods in Cat¬ 
taraugus, don’t know enough to know 
what he means. o. h. smith. 
A Feathered Watchdog. —The Port¬ 
land Press tells a story of a Bible agent 
who visited a back-country farming 
neighborhood in Maine. He called at 
the first house : 
HIGH-CLASS 
Registered Jersey Cattle 
CLOVER HAY WANTED. 
ROIIT. F. SHANNON, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
lETDQrVQ FOR SALE—Young Bulls 
M Ei 1% CL I and Heifers. Dams by 
Stoke Pogis 5th; Ida’s Rioter of St. L.; Landseer's 
Harry, etc., sire son of Prospect Rioter. 
JAS. T. ARMSTRONG. 1044 Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa 
A. J. C. C. Jersey Cattle and Chester 
WHITE HOGS.—Four choice Heifers and Bulls, 4 to 
It; months old. Chester White. Pigs: Ilappy Medium, 
King of Chester Whites, heads the herd. Come and 
see or write. C. E. MORRISON. Londonderry Pa. 
CHENANGO VALLEY 
burgh, Jr., Proprietor. Dorset Horn, Shropshire and 
Rambouillet Sheep, Dutch Belted and Jersey cattle; 
also Poland China. Jersey Red and Suffolk Pigs. 
For Sale or Fxchange 
TWO SHROPSHIRE BUCKS 
There seemed to be no one at home, but before 
he had time to knock at the door, he was sur¬ 
prised and startled by a most ferocious and un¬ 
expected attack. A big Plymouth Rock rooster 
came at him like a battering ram, with lowered 
bill and flapping wings. The Bible agent recov¬ 
ered himself and kicked out frantically at the 
enemy. Luckily his foot struck it in the breast 
and over went the rooster. But the fierce old 
clatterer was up and at him again like a flash. 
This time a well directed kick sent the bird roll¬ 
ing over and over. But it gathered itself together 
for another rush, and the Bible agent seized a 
hoe that was leaning against the house and 
raised it on high. This somewhat daunted the 
rooster. It stopped short, raised itself on its toes, 
gave utterance to three defiant crows, and then 
retreated in good order with a stately tread. The 
Bible agent found that there was nobody in the 
house. As he continued on his way, he soon met 
some men in the hay Held. lie shouted out : 
“ Look here, if you don’t look out for that rooster 
of yours, he’ll kill somebody or get killed him¬ 
self.” At this, the men almost rolled on the 
ground with laughter. One of them came up and 
explained that the boys had so plagued the fierce 
old rooster, that he had become as ugly and 
aggressive as any savage watchdog. 
Rkgulatk the Bowels with Du. I). Jayne's 
Small, Sugar-Coated Sanative Pills. Tasteless, 
Painless. Safe. At proper Intervals, one pill is usu¬ 
ally sufficient.— Adv. 
One a yearling, the other four years old; weight, 
226 pounds. II. P. DEMAREST, Warwick, N. Y. 
# S and # • O b u y s 
choice Ram Lambs and 
Yearlings. Don’t breed 
_ from scrubs when you 
can get thoroughbreds at these prices. Order now 
and you get the pick. 
W. A. BASSETTE, Farmer, Seneca Co., N. Y. 
WOODSJHE FARM. DO R» SETS 
of ours are better than ever before this year. We 
have Ram Lambs tit to go to any flock In the world. 
We have tine, strong, lusty fellows that are just ach¬ 
ing for the chance to get at that common flock of 
yours and breed It up to a paying one. We sell them 
at prices that you cannot afford to let them alone. 
We can show letters from pleased customers in sev¬ 
eral States. Ram Lambs, $16 up. 
J. K. WING. Mechanlcsburg, Ohio. 
SOUTH DOWN SHEEPYS“=;';‘v“r,'; 
ling and Lamb Rams to select from. Come and see 
or write. L. B. FREAR, Ithaca, N Y. 
You are requested to examine the exhibit from the 
Willswood Herd 
Berkshire Swine and Guernsey Cattle. 
New York State Fair. Syracuse, August 2(i to 30, and 
New Jersey State Fair. Waverly. September 2 to 6. 
See exhibit of “ P. A B, Compound ” for live stock. 
WILLS A. SEWARD. Budd’s Lake. N. J. 
DCPIfCUIDCC -For Sale, four Litters and 
U tri i\ w III lit. v four Boars, two years. All 
registered. Cheap. PARK FARM, New Brunswick.N.J 
DIRECT-UM BIT. 
Best Combination Bit made. 
Severe or Easy. 
as you want It. 
Sample mailed, XC lift 1.00. 
Nickel #1.50. 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON CO., Racine, Wis. 
CHESHIRES! Th tX,, F - ,,,M 
Is the Banner Herd of the world. Awarded 
more than three times as many First Premi¬ 
ums (at the World's Fair, Chicago) as all the 
rest of the Cheshire exhibitors put together; 
17 First Premiums and Special Mention. 
Lion’s share of First Premiums and Gold 
Medal at N. Y. State Fair, 1894. Why not 
buy the best! Prices low. Correspondence 
solicited. 
B. J. HURLBUT, Clymer, N. Y. 
BEFORE 
BUYING 
ANEW 
HARNESS 
Send 2-centstamp for 80-page Illus¬ 
trated Catalogue of Custom Hand¬ 
made Oak Leather Harness, sold 
direct to consumers at wholesale 
prices. Why not buy from first 
hands and save the middleman’s 
profit. You can buy by mail as 
well as though here in person. 
Making to order a specialty. 
KING Si CO., No. 10 ( hurch St., Owogn, N.Y. 
CANNED MEAT 
FOR POULTRY. 
This food is nice, fresh meat, 
carefully cooked, ground fine 
seasoned a n d hermetically 
sealed. Will keep an unlimited 
time until opened. Conveniently put up in 8-lb. cans. 
Especially adapted for chickens and moulting fowls 
Ground fine, it can be mixed with soft food, and 
fed to give each fowl an equal share. Price, 30 cents 
per can; $.'i per dozen. HOLLIS DRESSED MEAT 
AND WOOL CO., 20 North Street, Boston, Mass. 
S. W. (SMITH, Coe, 
B KKK8HIRK, Chester White, 
Jeraey Bed mud Poland Chin* 
PIGS. Jersey, Guernsey and 
Holstein Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep, Fancy Poultry. Hunting 
and House Doga. Catalogue, 
•nvllic, Chester Co.. Pen am. 
C IIICSTKR WHITES- Have you been disappointed 
swindled in buying pigs ? If so, try the old true 
type Chester Whites, bred by G. R. Foulke, West 
Chester. Pa. Have broad, dished face, lop car, straight 
hair and back.good body, bone and ham; aregrowthy, 
not coarse. Only breeder guar, satis, or frt. both ways 
Reg. Poland-Chinas 
and BERKSHIRE8. Choice 
large strains.8-week pigs not 
akin. Poland-China Boars 
all ages. Hard time prices 
HAMILTON Sc CO., Coehrnnvllle, Ph. 
P atent Slow-Feed Manger; $1(10 each; 9.000 
sold. 50 Warren St., New York; 140 N. Broad St. 
Philadelphia, and 53 Elm St., Boston, Mass. 
Special Purebred Poultry 
free to those booking orders 
for POLAND-CHINA 
FIGS before September 1. 
F. H. GATES & SONS, 
Chittenango, N. Y. 
RECORD TIGHT-SEAL PACKAGE 
FOR 
BUTTER AND LARD, 
Seals Tight Instantly, and Ovens 
Instantly. What the country 
has always wanted and nevei 
been able to obtain until now; 
made in nine sizes, from one 
pound to 00. Quotations on ap 
plication to the RECORD 
MANUFACTURING CO., 
oCouneaut, Ashtabula Co.. O. 
USE 
TAYLOR’S 
FUMA 
CARBON- 
Bisulphide. 
For killing Woodchucks, Prairie Dogs, Gophers 
and Hats, Insects in Grain, Seeds, etc. Shipped 
In 50-pound cans by the manufacturer. 
EDWARD It. TAYLOR, Cleveland, Ohio. 
I flf) ^Oice Docks. Must go quick to make roon 
luu Brookside Poultry Farm, Columbus, N. J. 
Farm Cream Separators^:;;?, 
I . M. SHARI LES. West Chester, Pa., Elgin, 
han 
atalogui 
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