More Oleo Discussion 
The letter on page 202, by Barton 
Coon, is both stupid and selfish, , We als-i^ 
have fi\e or six cows and have 14o acres) 
<>f land where we could keep four times 
that n iber if we saw any profit in it by 
working If! to 20 hours a day, or by giv¬ 
ing the profit to hired help and the deal¬ 
ers. But as it is at present we prefer to 
use all milk, cream, butter and cheese in 
otir family of four that we can. in place 
of oleo or any other substitute. As to 
The It. N.-Y. promoting class hatred, he 
may be right. But The R. N.-Y. is fori 
producer and consumer on one side, and 
the middleman and the political crooks 
on the other. And all farmers and dairy¬ 
men must choose by which they will 
stand. Let Mr. Toon come to our county 
and we can show him six retired middle¬ 
men to one retired farmer or dairyman. 
Sullivan Co,, N. Y. e. w. eggi.er. 
Like J. B. I). I also live in the center 
of the county which boasts of the most 
registered ITolsteins of any equal area in 
the world. But T do not believe that the 
dairyman deserves credit for the entire 
dairy situation. Although sometimes in 
place of butter, too, he lets oleo do. 
Who is to blame? The blame is just 
as much the grocer’s as the consumer’s 
We are equipped to make butter, but as 
our local grocer would not sell it we went 
back to selling the whole milk. Although 
everyone knows that good homemade but¬ 
ter is superior to any creamery butter 
made. Why do dairymen and other con¬ 
sumers buy oleo? First, it is cheaper; 
second, it is eatable, which is not always 
the case with the butter bought in the 
country stores. I have asked our grocer 
a number of times why he does not buy 
h s butter from some of the creameries 
in the State. That would be a direct help 
to the industry in this locality, in place 
<f selling Creamery Butter, which is 
nothing but a cold storage product. And 
a lot. of it sold here has been kept alto¬ 
gether too long to encourage consumption. 
It has been said that no man has a 
light to find fault, unless lie can offer a 
remedy. Let every man keep his milk 
home twice every month for butter, or 
three times if needed This should be an 
agreement with the .mtrons and opera¬ 
tors of each local station, and also with 
the League. It would be a just and easy 
way of pooling, and would not require an 
extensive system of accounting, and con’d 
be started at any time and discontinued 
any time, when a better system may have 
been established without loss to anyone. 
'Fhe direct influence this would have on 
the dairy industry in this State is easily 
apparent if one-fifteenth to one-tenth o'" 
all the League’s milk was kept iff the 
market each day, and no one would hr 
any worse off for it. It would give every 
farmer’s family a sufficient supply <>i 
good butter, and in some cases a little 
surplus for a village friend. 
It is a poor business principle for a 
dairy man or any other fanner to sell his 
products at wholesale and buy them back 
at retail, either from cold storage or the 
substitute. The only safe course for the 
New York dairyman to pursue is to diver¬ 
sify all he can; raise his own supplies as 
near as lie can ; keep only the number of 
cows he can feed, and the surplus will 
disappear. This much preached “special¬ 
izing” has made the farmer a slave of 
commerce. j. a. m. 
Hats off to Dutchess County for'hav 
ing a farmer who eats oleo and boasts 
of It. We have some here in Washing¬ 
ton County, but they usually send the 
wife or the hired man by night to make 
the purchase. Mr. Coon says they use 
oleo, partly to save money; looks as if it 
was the whole part, and as to accommo¬ 
dating customers, if he is the only one 
who makes butter in Dutchess County, 
we have 200 dairymen in Cambridge who 
have been without a market for milk for 
four months, who would be glad to send 
‘butter down to Dutchess County and let 
Mr. Coon cut out his wagon grease. Mr. 
Coon says “nut” butter may be a boon to 
many of the poor. Is that any reason 
why a farmer should cut his own throat 
and his neighbor’s? 
1 am not at all surprised that the city 
man found dishonesty among farmers. 
What can one expect, when men will feed 
their wives and children on stuff that will 
stunt a rat that he may sell a few pounds 
of butter and make a few cents? I re¬ 
peat one sentence in Mr. Coon’s letter, 
which he should read over at least once; 
“Let us not be so narrow as to think only 
of ourselves. HAItKY C. MEN NETT. ‘ I 
Washington County N. Y. • 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.103 
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