Blunted Tastes

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 23 February 1888, Page 3

Blunted Tastes

Probably one of the prolific causes of poor butter results from the common use of tobacco and other stimulants, which blunt the tastes of dairymen and render them incapable of enjoying or even perceiving the delicate and delicious aroma of fine butter. This also accounts for the use of poor, strongly flavoured salt, because it is cheap, the users asserting — probably honestly — that they can distinguish no difference between such salt and the finer brands. Dairymen with tastes thus blunted send poor butter to. market, expecting to get top prices for it, and are ready to swear that the quality of their butter is as good as that of anybody's. They put on exhibition at fairs, to compete for premiums, stuff that no one with acute tabte would think of eating. There is says Mr T. D. Curtis, in the Rural New Yorker, no way of accounting for Buch stupidity, except through the blunted tastes of dairymen, resulting from the use of deadening stimulants like tobacco, whiskey, beer, and perhaps highly-Beasoned foods. A dairyman should be a clean man, with all bis natural tastes and sensibilities in a healthy and active condition,