1807 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
559 
Live Stock Matters 
THE LAW AGAINST BUTTER / NE. 
WHAT WILL BE ITS EFFECT ? 
As our readers know, the State of Il¬ 
linois has enacted a law which prohibits 
manufacturers of butterine from color¬ 
ing their product in imitation of butter. 
The following opinions of dairymen 
will be interesting to those who have 
studied the history of this legislation : 
Increased Demand for Good Butter, 
It would be difficult for me to predict 
the result of the recently passed butter¬ 
ine law ; but it is my opinion that it will, 
in the course of a year, at least, increase 
the demand for good dairy and creamery 
butter, and enhance the value of butter 
and dairy stock. But I presume that 
there is a large supply of butterine 
already manufactured and colored which 
will be worked off in some shape, mostly 
as butter, I presume, and as the butter¬ 
ine men have large interests at Kansas 
City, Omaha, St. Louis, etc., they can 
ship their material to those points and 
manufacture there. What we need now 
is a similar law passed by Congress and 
rigidly enforced. w. s smith. 
Illinois. 
Sound Ideas by H. B. Gurler. 
I see by the Chicago papers that some 
of the Chicago manufacturers of butter¬ 
ine are going to test the law. I have 
feared that they would take this course, 
not that I think our law will not stand 
the test of the courts, but it means that 
they will continue to make the goods as 
formerly until the matter is decided by 
the courts. The enforcement of the law 
in Illinois would, doubtless, have more 
effect than in any other State ; tut I 
should not, in that case, look for any 
very marked advance. I do not think 
that the enactment and enforcement of 
a similar law by all the States, would 
cause anything like a boom in the butter 
market; but it would create a healthy 
condition, and that is what we wish to 
secure I do not look for any advance 
in the price of cows in Illinois ; they are 
higher than any other stock now. I am 
intensely interested in the work that is 
being done to develop a foreign market 
for our butter. I am highly pleased, 
but not at all surprised, at what is being 
accomplished in this line. The improved 
price of beef cattle is going to be a factor 
in the States west of the Mississippi in 
the corn belt. Men will not milk cows 
when they can make an equal profit 
growing and feeding steers. 
Illinois. 
National Legislation Should be Secured. 
Unless the recent Illinois anti-oleo 
legislation shall be held unconstitu¬ 
tional by the courts, it will prove invalu¬ 
able to the dairy interests of our State, 
and its benefits will be at once felt by 
dealers and breeders of dairy cattle. A 
National law to the same effect would 
be generally beneficial to dairy interests 
throughout the country, and should the 
Illinois law be maintained, National 
legislation of like character should be 
secured. o j bailey. 
Illinois. 
A Hopeful Opinion. 
It would be difficult, at this time, to 
tell what effect the new law will have 
in this State. I believe that the butter¬ 
ine men have been hurt more by the 
new law than by any previous one in re¬ 
gard to bogus butter. The bill was very 
hard fought on both sides, but the dyna¬ 
mite bomb has exploded in their ranks, 
and I understand, on good authority, 
that the butterine people are pulling up 
their plants and moving them out of the 
State. Will this stop the trade in the 
bogus article ? It may, but is there not a 
law which will admit the article in the 
original packages ? It is true, we have 
a great corporation to fight, but should 
this law prove to be all that its framers 
expect, I would look for good cows and 
dairy products to advance, at least, five 
per cent in value. By this law, the 
dairy people get all they ask for. Now, 
will they get what they wanted ? I am 
inclined to believe that they will, and 
that we have set a good example for 
other dairy States. d f. milleb. 
Illinois. 
What Governor Hoard Says. 
In my opinion, the effect of the new 
law will be very seriously to interfere 
with the illegitimate and illegal sale of 
the counterfeit. That it will thoroughly 
and completely stop the trade in the 
bogus article, I do not believe, any more 
than laws against stealing have been 
successful in eradicating theft. I see 
that the manufacturers are going to test 
the constitutionality of the law. I can¬ 
not believe that they are sincere in this 
proposition. The law is framed essen¬ 
tially along the lines of the Massachu¬ 
setts law, which was successfully fought 
from the lower courts to that of the 
Supreme Court of the United States, with 
constantly affirmed constitutionality. 
No doubt the oleo men of Chicago ex¬ 
pect by their attitude to intimidate the 
friends of pure food and honest butter, 
but the sentiment of the State was very 
powerfully aroused by the dairymen in 
securing the passage of the law, and this 
sentiment will not easily subside. 
One difficulty exists in Illinois, which 
we deprecate considerably, that is the 
lack of a dairy and food commission, or 
a bureau which has for its special object 
the enforcement of the law. I think the 
law will have the effect of stimulating 
to a certain extent, the dairy industry ; 
it will give courage ; it will make the 
dairy farmers feel that their cause is not 
hopeless amid this fearful onslaught of 
unconscionable monopolies and selfish 
corporations, which have taken so com¬ 
plete possession of the legislatures and 
courts of the country. The great prob¬ 
lem, however, remains the same. All 
the anti-oleo legislation in the world 
will not put intelligence, understanding, 
education, and skill into the hands of 
ignorant farmers, men who keep cows 
with no idea of the economies involved 
in the proposition. The great loss that 
is being felt everywhere, comes to us 
through this factor. Such a large per 
cent of worthless and expensive animals 
kept as cows, and the tax that the in¬ 
dustry pays to this expenditure of ignor¬ 
ance, rather than knowledge, is so fear¬ 
fully large, that it almost discourages 
me at times in any attempt to rectify it, 
or relieve it. Every creamery in the 
land is a living daily lesson on this ques¬ 
tion, and the farmers who patronize 
these creameries, to a very large extent, 
do not seem to be alive to the importance 
of reducing the number of their cows, 
and improving the quality so that profit 
may take the place of loss in the yearly 
work of the animal. w. D. hoard. 
Editor Hoard’s Dairyman. 
STOCK AND DAIRY NOTES. 
For a 100 quart-a-day milk route, 
where we made milk for quality as well 
as quantity (quality pays in the end), 
we should expect to keep from 12 to 14 
cows. Cows ought to go dry from six 
weeks to two months, so that two or 
three would have to be dry nearly all 
the time. It is a hard matter to keep 
an even run of milk when foods vary so 
much as in the common summer pasture 
feeding method, and it will take skillful 
work not to have a shortage in August 
and November, or a big surplus in May 
and June. Plan to have more of the 
cows come in from July to December 
than the corresponding period, as the 
shortage will come in the former period. 
Cows will give more milk per year, that 
come in from September to December, 
than at any other time of the year. 
Common cows will not average more 
than eight quarts per day the year 
around. Where soiling or entire indoor 
feeding is practiced, the quantity can be 
much more easily controlled, and they 
can come in at about equal distances 
apart throughout the year. 
Severalj[grades of cream are sold in 
this market; that containing about 30 
per cent of butter fat ranks first and 
gives satisfaction. It will whip high 
and easily, and that is the ordinary 
housewife’s criterion for good cream. 
Considerable cream is sold here contain¬ 
ing 15 to 20 per cent butter fat, but it 
kills trade instead of drawing it. We 
use the deep, cold-setting process cream 
entirely in our business. For making 
ice cream that w’ll increase 25 per cent 
in body by whipping for vanilla or “ ex¬ 
tract” cream, the higher per cent of fat 
the better. Fruit creams will whip 
with a lower per cent of fat, as the bulk 
of fruit seems to make up for the higher 
per cent of fat. A great many who sell 
cream at retail and use the cold, deep¬ 
setting process, have trouble because 
they try to get off the last cent’s worth 
of cream. Not over one half or two- 
thirds of the top or denser cream should 
be used. Make butter from it or put it 
to some good use. Tell the housewife 
if she wants to whip cream or beat eggs 
with about one-third the labor of the 
old style method, to get a Saltman’s 
Columbia egg beater ; it costs from 10 
to 15 cents at any tin store. 
Conn. H. G MANCHESTER 
The paroxysms of Whooping Cough are at once 
relieved by Dr. D Jayne’s Expectorant, and if this 
medicine is continued, It almost invariably effects a 
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Guernseys. 
225 purebred Guernsovs of the best American and 
Island breeding. Butter average, whole herd, ,’U 8 
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your own selection. 
ELL.ERSLIK STOCK FARM, 
RHINECLIFF. N. I, 
It is UNLAWFUL to color oleomargarine, but it is 
LAWFUL to use bulls of 
Willswood Herd 
Guernsey Cattle. 
A choice bull calf, yearling heifer, and a few cows 
WILLS A. SEWARD. Budd’s Lake, N. J. 
JERSEY CATTLE FOR SALE. 
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Y.—Dutch Belted and Jersey Cattle; Dorset and 
Rambonlllet Sheep; Poland-Chlna. Jersey Red and 
Suffolk Pigs; Whito and Bronze Turkeys, Peafowls 
and Blooded Chickens. J. D. VAN VALKKNBURGH. 
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Wa-wa-nund, Lewiston, N. Y. 
75 Head of Registered Chester Whites 
now.ready for shipping, from 
two to eight months old, 
sired by my prize boars 
Chester 2nd 6017, Eureka 
King 6961, George R., 7369 
and out of choice reg. sows 
Order soon and get the best. 
Send 2-cent stamp for catalogue and prices. Come 
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WALTER. Eureka Stock Farm, West Chester, Pa. 
Two Poland-ChinaSows 
bred for fall farrow, for sale at $15 each A bargain. 
F. II. GATES & SONS, Chittenango, N. Y. 
$100 Reward. 
O UR entire stock of Barred, Buff & White P. Rocks 
and 2C0 Selected I’ekln Ducks; must be sold. Prices 
cut in two. Ground meat, $2 per 100 lbs. Stamp for 
catalogue. Brookside Poultry Farm, Columbus. N. J 
For many years we have advertised 
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and also will refund 
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27 Beverly Street, Boston, Mass. 
POULTRY LECTURES 
In any part of the country, a specialty. SAMUEL 
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Pawtucket, r. 1 . 
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