The Hermiston herald., May 01, 1930, Page 5, Image 5

THUHSDAT, MAT 1, 1»SO
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The Dairy Situation-No. 2
Why Have Butterfat Prices
Gone Down?
WIPE OUT
The answer is very simple, and has nothing to do with the recent stock
market crash.
There Is more butter on the market today than can be sold.
This
surplus amounts to over 45,000,000 pounds.
Naturally, with so much butter on hand, prices have dropped.
Creameries cannot get the high prices they used to get for good quality
butter. There is too much of It.
The Federal Farm Board recently made the statement that butter today
is being sold at less than the cost of producing it. That means that
everybody having a hand in the butter business loses. There is no profit
in cream or butter when prices are low.
But what has caused this big butter surplus? Who is to blame for it?
Let one of the foremost authorities on butter marketing in the United
States answer this question. "In my opinion dairying has not been over
developed, notwithstanding the 45,000,000 pounds of surplus butter.
Rather I would say that-the manufacture and sale of oleo, butter sub­
stitutes and cooking fats has been overdeveloped to tho detriment of
butter.
The Federal Farm Board further says: "The farmers of the country
are themselves partly responsible for this condition because of their fail­
ure to use their own butter.
“We urge the farmers of the nation to help improve the prices of
dairy products by using more butter.”
Statistics show that farmers buy 70 per cent of all oleo and other butter
substitutes. This has saved the farmers over the entire country about
15.000,000.
But this so-called saving has cost the dairy farmers of America $175,-
000,000 in lower prices.
Every nickel you save in buying oleo costs you and the butter Industry
$1.75.
■ Can anybody call that a saving?
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THE DAIRY
SURPLUS
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Your Consideration of This Problem Will
Mean Protection to General Health
and National Security
the farmer ; cannot continue to produce dairy foods at a
LOSS, AS ANY SUCH LOSS HAS A DIRECT BEARING ON THE PRODUCT
ION OF ALL OTHER FOODS THAT COME TO YOUR TABLE FROM THE
FARM. THE DAIRY INDUSTRY RETURNS TO THE FARMERS OF THIS
COUNTRY NEARLY ONE-FOURTH OF THEIR AGRICULTURAL INCOME.
There is No Substitute for
Butter and Dairy Products
If each person in the United States
would consume onelmore pat of battsr
each day for one month, or if tach
member of the rural communities of
this country would consume one-half
an ounce more of butter a day for
the next two months, the surplus
would be disposed of.
“Butter for Health
Is Nature’s Wealth”
There is an Over Production in AU Foreign Counties, Hence the Only Relief is Increased
Consumption at Rome.
Use AU the Butter and Milk Products You Can
The above advertiwment, the fiv t of a w rie. in behalf o f the dairy mdu.try w a. made p o « ib l. through the co-operation of the following b u rin ... firm , and ...o c i.tio n .
with The Hermiston Herald.
Hermiston Creamery Co.
Mutual Creamery Co.
Swift & Company
F. B. Barker, Hermiston
Dorr Garrison, Sfcrrfto®