Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-09-07
Western DIARIES.

OuF EaSCefu 1rlenuS are HOOu zeal
exercised over the fact that the West
carried off the first premium at the
Centennial Exposition. 1t is a salts.
faction to know that Northwestern
State was the successful COMPETE
itor. The following article on eastern
and Western diaries will be read with
interest.
In the Eastern markets dairy pro-
ducts are classed as Eastern and West
ern. the former being much superior
to the latter. Eastern producers and
consumers have been startled and sur
prised at the result of the recent COM
petition between the dairymen of the
United States at the Centennial Expo
sition, Iowa having carried off the first
prize. Upon this subject the New
York Bulletin makes the following re-.
marks: The announcement that an
Iowa creamery has carried off the first
prize over all exhibits of butter from
other States, at the Centennial Exhibi.
ton, naturally attracts the attention
of the trade. The products of our own
State has always been considered su-
perier to that of any other section of
the country, and the result of this
competition from Iowa is to many Il
little surprising. Yet, after all, VIC
find large number of our dealers who
look upon the award as a just and nat
ural sequence Of what is mildly attrib-
uted to the carelessness on the part of
many New York dairymen.
Relying upon an established rep
utation to carry them through, they
have neglected giving that careful at
tention to the product of the churn
common in former years, and hence
this season complaints are numerous
that a large percentage of water has
been worked into stock, as if for the
purpose of increasing weight, but at
the sacrifice of solidity and staying
qualities-a fault which has developed
itself very decidedly during the pres
ent warm weather. There is, no
doubt, just as good butter produced in
some sections of the State to-day as
heretofore, and it is claimed that a
proper representation of some makes
at the Centennial Dairymen's Associa-
ton building would have retained the
laurels for New York. But it is also
admitted that these really first class
offerings are the exception rather than
the rule that constantly studying the
wants of the cities on the seaboard, the
West has dispossessed itself of the idea
that almost anything would do to send
to New York, Philadelphia or Boston,
and, steadily improving on the pro.
duct, it now begins to produce grades
on which it is not uncommon to obtain
rates equal to those of the best State,
outside of few special diaries which
preserves their superiority simply by
precticing the old-time care in prepar-
ing butter for market. Ohio, Iowa,
Illinois, and other large sections of the
West, are all magnificent dairy coun
tries, and will obtain the supremacy
for which they are striving, unless our
dairymen at once awake to the neces.
stiles of the case, and by proper ell.
ergy re-established the rapidly waning
celebrity of New York State butter. It
would not be amiss for certain of our
cheesemakefs to apply the same ad.
monition to themselves CORRESPOND.
ing evil beginning to exhibit itself in
that product also, though to a smaller
extent.
We have always commended that the
West has all the facilities over the
East for making good butter. Es-
pecially is this SO in the three north.
western States of Iowa, Wisconsin and
Minnesota. All that is required is ex.
perience. The butter product in these
three States could be built up into
mammoth proportions. Had we the
dairy women Of the East in the West
it would help matters very much. If
there is any one thing neglected on the
farm in tho West, it is the butter in.
terest.