The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-02-12

IN MlnneEOtaa
Does not this show at a glance without demon
s1ratlon or figures the rapid prosperity tina,
would attend the production of dairy goods Il
our State if but skill and care were shown II
their MANUFACTURED?
LACK OF sYsrKM.
Now what shall we do as a remedy for th.
present defective system, or rather lack of svs
tenn, as now" practlced in butter and cheese
making in this State?
First-I would think it of the greatest i'm.
portance that a dairymen's board of trade bf
established in this city and Minneapolis, where
butter ana cheese may be sold without the in
is so generally practiced in ths cities of Che
East, securing greater profit to our producers
We need in this city or Minneapolis general
dairy furnishing store that would keepa COM
plete outfit for cheese and butter factories; q
house that would manufacture cheese yats.
mug cans, and full line of furnishing goods
Tor butter and cheese factories and farm deiries
we should no longer 60 to Chicago and Elgin
for this line of goods.
ADVANTAGE OF ASSOCIATION.
We cannot too strongly urge the ADVANTAGE
OF association or the fuctory system of making
both butter and cheese. Sixteen wears apo
by skillful dairyman, by the name of vii.
iiams, in Oneida county, N. Y. He obtained
nigh prices for his cheese. He found that he
could buy milk of his neighbors. and mann.
facture it into cheese, and sell it for more than
they could get. His example was followed,
ana II LED to the establishment of thousands OF
such factories in the United States and Canada,
Later, better factories (creameries. so-calledl
were introduced, which have all the ADVANTAGES
over the farm dairy plan as the cheese factory,
Inc advantages of the factory system are IN
making a uniform quality, and with skilled
persons to handle the milk, fine quality OF
goods, as we'll as saving the expense of fitting
up suitable rooms and implements for makine
on the farm, and the saving to the wife and
tamlly OF great amount of work in having
the milk taken to a factory.
DRoUrH
here would digress from this subject a
moment to repeat what stated to yo- q year
ago, that statistics tell us that all over the
Eastern and Northern States cereal crops are
seriously injured by drouth or other causes
once in three or four years."
The total loss of crops in a large area of our
state for two and three years in succession
part of last season the PROSPECTS, of an
abundant yield of wheat was never better but
which proved such a disastrous failure in the
southern part of the State, that those made
the most money by applying the torch and
burning over their wheat fields, instead of at
tempting to harvest their crop, shows very
plat. ~ the folly of taking so many chances
on the production of a single crop. can not
better illustrate the precarious profits of pro-
duclng crop of wheat than to quotes part of
letter to me from q farmer of McLeed coun.
ty, dated Jan. 7th, last. The writer saws:
I'VE have been well off until the, shoppers'
came ana eat us out year after year., and this
year, with the blight of our wheat crop, we
are worse off than ever before. We have had
to mortgage our farms to get along, thinking
next year would be better, but it is worse and
worse for us. We can not pay our interest, so
they take our farms from u.s.
DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES.
Now those farmers have to leave what would
have been the fruits of their labors. had thew
practiced diversified farming, and seek free
homesteads, and make new effort To- succeed.
We all know the great hazard that a+tends the
growing OF grain crops. The production of
good crops is generally attended with low
prices. Then we are 80 distant from the great
populous centers for consumption Of our sur
plus grains, in the Eastern States AID Europe,
that their carriage by rail eat up. the small
margin left for the labor of production, and
the cry is ''hard timesE' We can no longer
charge this to the hi Oh rate Of freight charged
Dy railroad companies when we consider the
distance they have to carry these. productions
to reach our consumers.
am satisfied that the railroads between us
and the seaboard cities are carrying our surplus
productions as cheaply "a they can afford to,
and that the owners of stock in these roads do
not begin to receive the return from their in
vestment that we would (if We had it) in &C.
commodating neighbor with a loan.
CHEAPER TRANSPORTATION.
We see this does not do, and the CIV is for
cheaper transportation to the East. This de-
mand brought together the great convention
recently in this city to press upon the atten-
ton of Congress tho immediate necessity of
Improving this great internal water route of
TINS country: that has its Western terminus in
this State. That will be Of great benefit to US,
but is closed six month in the year.
CONCENTRATION.
Our BEST most profitable line of policy to
pursue, as dairymen and farmers of this State.
both now and in tho future, il to concentrate
our productions into the least bulk possible.
We now have the invention of refrigerator cars
that can take the beef fattened upon the mil
lions of acres of our free grasses, dressed ready
for the stalls OF the meat market in any of our
largest Eastern cities, or. it. can be transferred
to vessels fitted up for that purpose and landed
in Liverpool, and take the preference by our
English cousins over their own beef cattle.
Concentrate our corn into pork, moro of our
grasses into woodland we have served tho prob
lem OF cheap transportation, comparatively al
least. Actual experiment has demonstrated
the fact thatl wool shipped from this ou1
climate of dry, pure air; to New York or Bos-
ton, will gather more than sufficient weight in
moisture in transit to pay the freight. SILL
more, of the 100000 acres of the prairie
grasses growing in our State, which chemical
analysis shows to be- more nutritious thar
timothy, should be- converted through ou1
mich COWS into butter and cheese. which in
cost of transportation follows close upon tba,
of wool in reaching our customers, as We have
so much value concentrated in SO little bull
that the rates of freight compared with that OF
wheat or other grains is insignificant, and the
difference is but a tride in comparison whethe,
it goes east by water or rail.
OUTER FACTORIES.
Let us again turn our attention to the sub
ject Of butter factories. It il nv belief that
the sooner they are constructed and patronized
by farmers the sooner will the,g great North Sta.
State get q reputation equal to Jones county,
Iowa.. My belief for this is founded upon, the
fact that the few butter factories ca.
tablished in Minnesota have. proved q success,
It is very evident that these few factories have
been started by men who thoroughly under.
stand their business. They have this past sea.
son especially, established. splendid. reputa-
ton by the introduction of their goods into
other States and obtaining GOOD, round profit.
able prices for their goods. Col. Thompson. OF
the Wells factory. has received good prices and
established good reputation in St. Louis fol
his butter. 5.-- - ~
WESTERN BUTTER.
Only q few wears ago good Western hntter II