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•Pit RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 5, 1921 
The Discussion About Oleo 
Loyalty of Dairymen 
Is it selfish for dairymen to use oleo, or 
is- it just stupid? Does injuring himself 
and his own business, and proving a 
traitor to all his fellow dairymen, consti¬ 
tute selfishness? It hardly looks that 
way ; it looks more like idiocy or insanity. 
Personally I lay no claim whatever to 
extraordinary intelligence, but I do con¬ 
sider myself perfectly capable of defining 
the attitude of the loyal dairyman who 
patriotically refrains from using oleo on 
his own table and thereby reducing the 
demand for, and consequently the price of. 
his own product. Futhermore, my sixth 
and seventh grade pupils can do the same, 
and so can anyone capable of reading the 
dictionary intelligently. Webster says: 
“Selfishness—the exclusive regard for 
one’s own interest.” If that does not 
prove an alibi for the oleo-eating dairy¬ 
man, I fail to comprehend what would. 
It should be entirely superfluous to 
mention the difference in food value be¬ 
tween butter and oleo. but since the dif¬ 
ference is eo great and so well known, in 
what way does the controversy affect the 
purse of those who are endeavoring to 
economize in the bill of fare? If they 
prefer to use oleo anyway, what difference 
does it make to them if butter does cost 
$1 a pound? Do they expect the price 
of the two articles to be identical, regard¬ 
less of their relative value? As for me, 
I don’t care to raise my daughter*on oleo, 
and I don’t consider it entirely selfish for 
me to prefer that the other members of 
my school flock be fed plenty of good but¬ 
ter. Ag a matter of fact. I am sure they 
all are, and most of them bring milk to 
school, also plenty of bread well buttered. 
My people are entirely and permanently 
out of the dairy business, but we keep a 
cow or two, make our own butter, and use 
all the milk, butter and cream we can. 
Neither are we so criminally selfish that 
we can derive any satisfaction from see¬ 
ing our dairymen neighbors and their 
business ruined; their loss will not be 
OUr gain. MRS. E. M. ANDERSON. 
which we have already quite enough. The 
farmers as a class are no better and no 
worse than any other class of manufac¬ 
turers or traders. They are only human 
beings, with all of a human being’s nat¬ 
ural propensities to err, particularly on 
the selfish side. A city man of my ac¬ 
quaintance. who came to live in the coun¬ 
try, said he was surprised to find so 
much dishonesty among the farmers with 
whom he dealt in buying bay. grain, etc., 
from them. Tie said Guch practices would 
not be tolerated for a minute in good 
business houses in the city, or in busi¬ 
ness circles, and I can well believe it. 
If farmers as a class cannot stand upon 
their own feet, let no one try to hold them 
up. Coddling will not help them. Let 
us get a straight, clear view of these 
matters—dispassionate, unprejudiced, re¬ 
membering that what is for the common 
good is for the good of each one in the 
long run, inevitably. Let us not be so 
narrow as to think only of ourselves; 
that is just what we say about the other 
fellow. BURTON COON. 
Dutchess Co., N. T. 
Shrink in Milk 
I am milking a cow that freshened De¬ 
cember 10. She was in excellent con¬ 
dition, and I was careful to bring her to 
her grain gradually. But the 25th she 
was giving nearly 60 lbs. of milk a day 
on three milkings. T dropped to two 
milkings and she fell off, but came back 
to about 50. I feed a mixture of 200 lbs. 
ground oats. 100 lbs. bran. 200 lbs. corn- 
meal, ”00 lbs. gluten. 100 lbs. each of cot¬ 
tonseed and O. P. oilmeal. I fed a pound 
to three pounds of milk. By the first of 
the year she was getting 16 lbs. grain and 
giving from 2” to 27 lbs. in the morning 
and from 21 to 24 at uight. I was very 
regular in milking and feeding. Satur¬ 
day morning she gave 26 lbs., and at 
night only IS, and Sunday 24. at night 
less than 15. S. F. W. 
The heavy grain ration has probably 
caused indigestion, and in such a case 
the concentrates should be reduced to 
1 lb. for every 4 lbs. of milk yielded daily. 
If the milk is still lessening in amount, 
resume miking three times daily. The 
feed may gradually be increased as im¬ 
provement in milk flow results. If the 
adder is inflamed, give the cow a physic 
of Epsom salts, and afterward a table¬ 
spoonful of powdered saltpeter in drink¬ 
ing water once daily. Bathe the udder 
with hot water three times daily, strip 
clean and at night rub in a mixture of 
one part each of pure turpentine and 
fluid extracts of poke root and belladonna, 
and five parts of sweet oil. a. s. a. 
An Early California Lamb 
The group picture above is sent us 
b.v M. .T. Overacher, Santa Clara County. 
California. He says this picture was 
taken Thanksgiving morning, and surely 
the background shows that nature has 
given California much to be thankful 
for. The picture shows the first lamb 
of the season, and the little fellow seems 
proud to think that he is a pioneer. Mr. 
Overacher Gays that the girl in the pic¬ 
ture is his 16-year-old daughter. She has 
her own flock of sheep, and takes full 
charge of them, and she also helps her 
father keep track of the cattle. It is 
evident that the old sheep is well ac¬ 
quainted with her mistress, and the lamb 
also has fu.ll confidence in the girl. It 
is a great thing when our boys and girls 
can be interested in the farm stock, and 
have animals of their own to care for 
and come under their responsibility. 
There are times when it turns out to be 
a girl's lamb and father’s sheep, or the 
boy’s colt and dad’s horse, and it is about, 
the worst combination of ownership that 
ever can be started on any farm. 
No Use for Oleo 
Aside from the idea of supporting an 
industry, does a buyer or user of oleo and 
like products get as much nutriment for 
liis money as he would provided butter 
was bought? No. No man will stand 
for petty thefts; then why rob himself 
by using substitutes? The meanest thief 
is one who robs a child : then why deprive 
children of the vitality they would get 
from butter by giving something inferior? 
Nature gives no substitutes: then why 
go against nature for the Gmail financial 
gain, and sacrifice health? F. nn n. G. 
The Meaning of “Selfish” 
I note with interest what O. W.. on 
page 39, has to say about the oleo ques¬ 
tion. T imagine he is situated in the 
fluid milk district, and is getting a spread 
of nearly $20 a ton more for his milk than 
the grain is costing. But does lie stop 
to realize that for every pound of oleo 
used it creates a surplus of from 20 to 
25 lbs. of milk? T have no quarrel with 
town or city people using oleo. especially 
if they can buy it for what it is: but 
for the dairyman depending on milk for 
his income, it is nothing short of crimi¬ 
nal Talk about being narrow and selfish. 
If it isn’t narrow and selfish to buy oleo 
that enters into direct competition with 
his own product, because it is cheaper, 
then T don’t know its meaning. 
We have a few of the same class We. 
Their plea is that they can’t get good but¬ 
ter. At least they can make their own 
supnlv. At the present time in this 
section tin 1 oleo question is not troublin s. 
as there is little market for milk or but 
ter. and everyone is using butter for the 
reason they cannot sell their butter. 
Cattaraugus Co.. N. Y. c. w. u. 
Eats Oleo and Sells Butter 
T am a farmer keeping five or six cows. 
We make butter and sell it to customers. 
We use oleo almost entirely, partly be¬ 
cause we can save money by so doing 
and partly to accommodate the customers, 
who often want more than we can supply. 
If we used more butter somebody else 
would have to use less. Are we selfish? 
Tf all farmers used only butter, many 
others who now use it would have to do 
without entirely. Tt seems, to me« that 
you are looking at this thing from tin' 
theoretic standpoint. You think of oleo 
only as a manufactured substitute for 
butter, and not as a true food, whereas 
some of the “nut butters” are just as 
truly “food” rg butter itself, and should 
i,o so classed and considered as “food.” 
Why should not a “nut” butter be used 
in place of cows’ butter as well as “com¬ 
pound” in place of lard, or chicory in 
place of coffee? Furthermore, as a busi¬ 
ness interest one is just as legitimate as 
the other. The owner of the cocoanut 
plantation and the chicory raiser must 
live as well as the butter maker, and so 
long as their products are wholesome and 
economical I do not see why they should 
be proscribed. As a matter of fact, they 
are a boon to many of the poor. Butter i 
at a dollar a pound and eggs at a dollar a ; 
dozen would not make the world hannier. 
Perhaps you do not realize that in 
always taking the side of the farmer yon 
are really promoting class hatred, of | 
The Ready Ration For Dairy Cows 
TKe feed fot* 
biggest profits 
That is what Larro is guaranteed to be—(not 
the feed for which you pay the least money) 
—but the feed which makes you the most 
money. 
Pick out one cow—any cow you choose—and 
let the gain in her milk yield prove how cheap 
Larro really is. 
If you don’t get more milk than before, and if 
you don’t make more profits from Larro 
(never mind what you paid for it), take back 
the two empty sacks, and any Larro you have 
left, to your dealer and get your money back. 
Write for names of Larro users in your neigh- 
. borhood and your nearest dealer. 
The Larrowe Milling Company 
605 Larrowe Bldg. Detroit, Mich. (5) 
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‘K DAIRY QCTWS 
100 Lbs.Net 
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Feed MO pound* Larro-!eed toany 
one cow. then il your own fig¬ 
ure* do not show that »he gave 
more milk on L*rro-leed.o» it lor 
any other reason you arc not 
entirely satisfied, return your 
empty aacki and unused Larro- 
teed and cel every cent ol your 
money back. 
Dealer* selling Larro-leed are 
authorized to carry out the 
terms ol thu guarantee. 
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