| Show I i OTHER SIDE Of BUTTER f Y President p Si w F Jensen of Cream ti s ery Company Gives in De DeI DeI I 1 tail Some Causes I H F FOR 1 RECENT RECORD RISE RISEt t r rI I I 4 Interesting tb g Statements the theO J O i In the Cost of at Production The e agitation over the advance In price of butter continues unabated In accordance with Its policy ot of sIdes of at n a question The News prints the following article contributed b by Mr tr Jensen president lIt of at the Jensen Creamery company COmpall giving his vew us as to the cau cause e ot of the high price of at butter Editor price or of butler r Is Isnow Isnow now higher than It has been for tor 25 5 years r ars This necessary product has at al ni mast st become became a luxury and It Is natural that the public and the press are l seek seeking e I Ing to discover the cause of these high prIces Having followed this bu business far fOI 20 years and made a study of at same sameI I can perhaps give you the thc main causes S find will endeavor to do so OLEO INTERESTS For many years ears there thelO has been a constant warfare between the producer and dealers In pure butter and b he imitation product called oleomargarine or ai is 11 manu manufactured principally from tallow lard cotton seed oil all and a certain per percentage of butter The best and oJ ix pensive grades ot of oleomargarine coil tamn 30 per cent ot of butter buttel and the cheaper grades contain very little butier but butter ter ier Oleomargarine Is perhaps a pure pun product but the public must rod e that It Is not an easily digested dg The Th melting meiling point of at butter Is dt de degrees grees which Is the temperature or of th the human body making butter n a Y very ry easily digested food tood and same can lIe be fed to babies bable It If I remember correctly the melting point or of tallow Is s Jc Jc groes and thus oleomargarine It 1 not ail an cas easy food to digest Perhaps to 90 p pr r cent cont or of the oleomargarine Is manufactured t red 11 by Armour Co the Swift Packing company compan Cu Cudahy Nelson Morris and other othel large meat packers packer The meat packers have also become the largest buyers buers and distributors of better In this country It Is well known among butter dealers that they are arc today large owners of storage but butter ter so the they ate ale lu In a position to boost the price ot of butter and thus open up a market for tor oleomargarine which Is the product they desire to eTh and pl lisps haps through their publishing bureau they expect to Influence legislation ao o oIS IS as to open wide the sale of for and In the stead of butter This winter the pu II g bureau of the oleomargarine Interests through the press of the country Is trying to In the public mind that th there re reIs Is a b butter trust and that the public Is 18 imposed upon b by said butter trust Aside from the influence the oleo mar Interests can bring to bear III hi advancing butter prices there Is per no food tood manufacturers In the tied States that Is less under th l control l of at r Interests I kno know ot of no man In this country that has hns mode much money from dealing In butter antI the history Is complete with fail failure failure ure There is 15 perhaps no industry to III the competition Is so O keen and the farmer the producer Of dairy prod products Is the man who Is getting the money In all ot of the Intermountain country the milk producer Is toda today re receiving receiving from 36 to 42 cents per pel pound butter fat PUBLIC WANTS THE BEST Another cau cause e or of high prices Is the tact fact that the American public Is more and more demanding the best of at every ever and that Is true of butter There Is practically no sale for the grade ot of butter that does doe not possess the best qualities The Inspection ot of cows for and the killing of stock t found und infected with this disease Is a ane ne necessary reform but we cannot close our eyes eves to the fact that It has In introduced ed a risk among the tow cow own owners owners ers and Is keeping many ot of them back and discouraging them I believe a al l w should be enacted and that the state should compensate the owners ot of tubercular cows COW when same sarno are aro killed for tor the public good HIGH PRICED GRAIN With corn 60 cents a bushel wheat 1 a bushel ha hay 16 to 20 per ton all q r tM I 1 and Mississippi val nl 1 e Is 18 ji not t r ninth h ic t tM t lios The Iro arc f Ie com ings r f f w t tand cows and alt all that hilt we receive from the f to o that tic e tHen Crest mid mida a e e west est Iq noW p producing from 40 t to tofA fA J I r Nit ress f than has ben P q uc j th rho last four years ars at this tittle othe o the year car The middle west bS b I mean Illinois Missouri Iona the tho Da 3 otas N Nebraska It ineas and Is th thc 0 only section In this country countr where here more n ore but butter r Is produced than the states tates th themselves cnn can use UMe for home cp consumption sump lon and this middle west Is supplying butter to all the other states In greater or lesser quantities and when the production In these middle western states rails falls off or decreases 40 4 to 50 per cent producing less but buttor tor than they have produced In 25 years then we must expect an In prices and It becomes easier casler for forthe forthe the special Interests such as the meat packers who are Interested In oleomargarine garine to advance the prIce of butter be beyond ond what Is reasonable and fair The he late spring of 1901 when cows were more lore or less starved In all parts of t the country on account of shortage of feed has also born ben a factor In a small butter production When a cow J starved In the spring she does docs not recover during that Haw Ho eter Cler Ul Be hIgh prices ought to be lL a stimulant to the so wo we mo may hope that thal In the future prices ot of but ter may b como more mOIe reasonable There Is hi a great need ot of education and Instruction among the milk ane and cream producers so that dalr dairy products can ho be produced at a lower cost Edu Education cation will accomplish reform quicker and better them than fines and the force of W P F JENSEN President I JE JENSEN SEN CREAMERY COMPANY |
