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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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THE COLOR OF BUTTER. 
Are Butter Colors Necessary ? 
We observe that some dairy breeders are 
objecting to the use of artificial color for 
butter, as they claim that when the Jersey or 
Guernsey cattle are fed on proper food, no 
such butter color is needed, even in Winter. 
Is this true? Have you found that your cat¬ 
tle will make naturally yellow butter in 
Winter, and if so, what Winter ration 
comes the nearest to pasture grass? In 
your judgment, would a law prohibiting 
the use of coloring matter be unjust to 
other breeds of cattle? 
A Just Law.— It is true that when 
Jersey cattle are fed on a well-balanced 
ration of good early-cut Alfalfa or 
clover hay, with ground corn, oats, bran 
and corn silage, butter color is not 
needed even in Winter. The color may 
not be as rich a golden as June grass 
pasture will produce, but it is yellow 
enough for our purpose. The above ra¬ 
tion comes nearest to pasture grass. In 
my opinion laws prohibiting adultera¬ 
tions of all kinds are just. 
Lincoln, Neb. wm. m. clark. 
Must Use Color— Although we have 
a herd of registered Jerseys, and by 
some fellow-breeders thought to be a 
fairly good one, to suit our custom with 
butter of the proper color, we have to 
use color, not because it is our wish, but 
because our market demands it. We 
feed corn silage, mixed hay, cut and 
mixed with the silage; bran and gluten 
feed. If there is any law to prohibit 
the use of color, I think it snould be to 
prohibit its use by the oleomargarine 
people. Jos. t. iioopes. 
Bynum, Md. 
Jerseys and Guernseys. —The Island 
cattle (Jerseys and Guernseys), un¬ 
doubtedly impart a yellower color to 
butter (distance from parturition, and 
character of food considered), than do 
cows of other breeding. Jersey cows 
fresh from October to January, fed good 
clover hay, with chopped corn, anu oats 
and bran, produce butter of rich yellow 
color. I have never fed silage. Good 
clover hay, and bright, well-kept corn 
fodder, constitute best substitute for 
grass. A law prohibiting the use of 
coloring matter would neither be un¬ 
just to other breeds of cattle, nor to the 
genus homo. Butter, as well as food of 
whatever variety, should be clean, and 
as free from extraneous matter, opaque, 
transparent, or of any color, as it may 
be possible to fabricate the same. 
Millersburg, Ohio. jno. g. bingham. 
Customers Want It.—A lthough I do 
not put any coloring matter in the but¬ 
ter I make now, still I know that some 
people and some markets require a 
higher-colored product than what I now 
make. To make good butter no coloring 
matter is needed, no matter what breed. 
But if the consumer wants high-colored 
butter and wishes and is willing to pay 
for it, why not give it to him? I keep 
Guernseys. They color their butter bet¬ 
ter than any other breed, yet I could 
never feed in Winter such foods as 
would cause the butter to be as rich in 
color as in Summer. The consumer is 
to say whether no color is “needed.” I 
have never fed carrots; otherwise I 
have never found that my cows made as 
high-colored butter in Winter as in 
Summer. Good feeding of corn products 
I have found to aid in giving a yellow 
color to butter. But the care and in¬ 
telligence of the buttermaker must be 
exercised, or the color will be very 
easily warmed out of the cream. 
I do not think that a law prohibiting 
the use of coloring would be any more 
unjust to other breeds of cattle than to 
the Jersey and Guernsey, for, to my cer¬ 
tain knowledge, there are those who 
have no dairy blood in their herds who 
are making butter for select customers 
without coloring it. Noi do I see why 
the question of coloring butter should 
be disputed. Butter pure and simple 
should contain such matter, harmless 
and needful, as tne consumer wants. 
Jersey breeders do not eat all the but¬ 
ter they make, nor perhaps do any 
other owners of cattle consume aa the 
butter product of their respective 
breeds. The farmer, the dairyman and 
breeder of to-day must raise and manu¬ 
facture such product as the public de¬ 
mands. Butter consists not only of the 
butter fat shown by the Babcock test, 
but also other ingredients. Some want 
their butter without salt, others with¬ 
out color, and if it were preferable, no 
doubt some would want it without mois¬ 
ture. I would also say that coloring 
butter is one thing; it is manufacturing 
the article according to the demands of 
public health and tastes, but fraudu¬ 
lently to put color oh a matter that is 
not the product of the cow so as to se¬ 
cure better price, regardless of health 
or the rights of others, is a wrong not 
so much on the owner of the cow as on 
the consumer of butter. In our State 
we have a law protecting the purchasers 
of fertilizers. Is it not a lack of com¬ 
mon sense when a State or a Nation 
protects the purchaser of food for the 
land, and allows food for the stomach to 
be sold for what it is not? Can we, as a 
Nation, stand by such practices, regard¬ 
less of the health of our people or the 
strength of their pockets? While I am 
proud of the great Nation that the peo¬ 
ple own, still, is there a nation, king¬ 
dom or empire but what protects its 
people in this line more than we protect 
ourselves? m. d. cunningham. 
Kansasville, Wis. 
BUSINESS DONE IN 0LE0 
In the Various States. 
A short time since, Representative 
Tawney, of Minnesota, calleu upon Sec¬ 
retary Gage for a statement of the 
amount of oleo shipped into the various 
States during the year ending June 30, 
1899. The Secretary replies that the 
total amount was 79,695,744 pounds, dis¬ 
tributed as follows: 
List, of Columbia 
Maryland .. 
Virginia . 
Illinois . 
Pennsylvania .... 
Ohio . 
New Jersey . 
West Virginia _ 
Indiana . 
Colorado . 
Kentucky . 
Kansas . 
Louisiana . 
Massachusetts. 
Michigan . 
Minnesota . 
Missouri . 
Nebraska . 
Rhode Island . 
Texas . 
Nevada . 
Alaska . 
Alabama . 
Arkansas . 
Arizona. 
California . 
Connecticut . 
Delaware . 
Florida . 
Georgia . 
Idaho . 
Indian Territory .. 
Iowa . 
Maine . 
Mississippi . 
Montana . 
New Hampshire .. 
New Mexico . 
North Carolina .. 
North Dakota .... 
Oklahoma . 
Oregon . 
South Carolina ... 
South Dakota . 
Tennessee . 
816,848 
1,761,950 
1,159,400 
18,638,921 
11,433,311 
8,830,969 
5,875,975 
1,206,863 
3,923,228 
1,123,537 
1,490,577 
1,658,544 
1,042,502 
2,083,889 
2,092,521 
1,343,865 
3,133,313 
1,924,985 
3,594.984 
1,518,264 
625 
18,080 
226,053 
380,389 
78,767 
74,923 
134,255 
40,475 
590,225 
495,004 
58,224 
152,278 
97,922 
102,274 
104,622 
446,022 
455,583 
115,850 
110,224 
7,710 
117,398 
41,260 
258,159 
68,432 
614,640 
Utah . 8,450 
Vermont . 2,990 
Washington . 63,345 
Wisconsin . 714,742 
Wyoming . 39,547 
New York State received only . 222,788 
The statistics of butter handled in 
New York City during the year ending 
October 31, 1899, shows a total of 103,- 
864,680 pounds, as against 222,788 
pounds of oleomargarine received in the 
whole State of New York during the 
past year. It will be seen that the 
amount of oleomargarine is about one- 
flfth of one per cent as compared to 
that of butter. On reading these fig¬ 
ures some one will start up and say that 
if only 222,788 pounds of oleo were sent 
into New York State what have New 
York State dairymen to fear from it? 
The answer to that is easy. The States 
of Illinois and Pennsylvania alone con¬ 
sume over 30,000,000 pounds of oleo. 
That drives an equal amount of butter 
out of consumption, and this butter is, 
of course, shipped to eastern markets 
for sale, thus competing with the prod¬ 
uct of eastern dairies. 
We are often asked about exports of 
oleo. They are not comparatively large. 
Last year 4,328,536 pounds were export¬ 
ed, Germany and the British West 
Indies 'being the largest buyers. The 
Hawaiian Islands took 57,920 pounds, 
and Porto Rico 41,098. A much greater 
business is done in the exports of oleo 
oil. Last year 132,579,277 pounds of this 
were exported. Holland took 81,451,126 
pounds, and Germany 29,973,1/23 pounds. 
The bulk of the oleo made in Europe is 
made in these countries. Secretary Wil¬ 
son has made tne point that Americans 
send grain to Denmark to feed the cows 
that make butter which drives our own 
butter out of the English market. This 
oleo-oil trade is worse yet in its effect 
upon the butter market. 
Breed of Cattle.— Which breed of cattle 
would be likely to prove most profitable to 
one engaged In general farming and keep¬ 
ing a few cows? Profit from same to be 
from the sale of veal calves in Philadel¬ 
phia and New York, and beef as well as 
butter In the local market, which is limited. 
Butter now sells for 25 to 30 cents per 
pound to private custom. subscriber. 
R. N.-Y.-We would prefer good stock of 
some milking strain of Short-horns for such 
purpose. 
Hydrophobia in Pennsylvania.— The 
papers have contained some alarming 
stories about mad dogs in Pennsylvania. 
Secretary John Hamilton sends this report: 
The facts with regard to the outbreak of 
hydrophobia in Centre County of this 
State, are, that a dog that was affected 
with rabies bit a number of cattle, as well 
as a number of dogs; in several instances 
rabies developed and the animals had to be 
slain. The State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board required that the district be quar¬ 
antined for a brief period, until the danger 
from bitten animals was over, so as to 
protect neighboring communities. The dog 
originally affected was overtaken and 
killed, and it is believed that all of the 
animals which he attacked have been safely 
quarantined, and that the danger from the 
spread of this trouble is practically over. 
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One of the greatest Jersey Bulls was Pedro 2187. 
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