Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-07
THE ST. PAUL DAILY FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 1879

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Ing moro or less confusion. Nevertheless by
his slow and distinct enunoiation, Mr.. Gardner
was able to attract and hold the attention Of
MS hearers intently to the end, and at the con-
cluslon he was rewarded by enthusiastic de-
nominations of approval.
hon. VIM. Fowler moved the thanks of the
convention for the address and that a conv ha
requested for publication. Adopted.
THE ADDRESS.
Mr.. Gardner commenced his addreus with \
brief statement of facts and figures showing
Inc steady and rapid development Of the butter
and cheese business of the country, and said:
MINNESOTA.
minnesota is doing something in helping to
swell the grand total of American dairy pro-
auctions. In 1876 our State had 1856. l49 miloh
COWS as reported by our State statistics for that
year. In 1877, 2O0,627; an increase of 49, 78
over the year 1876. The same proportionate
increase would give US now 2l6, lO5 milch COWS.
Now the question naturally suggests itself as
to the quantity of butter and cheese produced
and the quality of the same In 1876, with
LOO, l49 COWS, we produced IL 34S 97l pounds Of
butter and 1,O52,S48 pounds of cheese. AS
Stunning that it would require 90 pounds of
oheese to make one pound of butter (the rule
- SAo A1s~oooAA OVtStOo) VuV CU06S6 -DrOOOC6 OF
that year would be equivalent to 1880, $40
pounds, or a total of l4,979,841 pounds of
butter.
INTERESTING FIGURES.
This gives us a fraction less than 81 pounds
as the average product of butter per cow-a re-
markable small yield. We have now arrived at
figures that become interesting.
Our 2l6, lO5 COWS, at an average Of 81 pounds
OF butter each, gives US "a last years product
II, QUA BUS pounds With our experience in sell
ing and watching the market reports, who will
say but that 10 cents per pound
would be q fair estimate of the average price?
This would make the value of our State dairy
productions 81, ESQ, $50 for the present year.
Who will question but that in having better
skill and the more approved appliances in it's
manufacture that for this product we should
not have an average price of Is cents per
pound! Five cents per pound would add to its
value $S75,225. Now we will look a little fur
Their. 1t is no remarkable or unusual thing,
with proper care and feed for 2-year-old
helfer OF the native stock to produce in eight
months 200 pounds of butter.
POSSIBLE PRODUCTION.
The COWS of this State, if they but have the
care, quantity and quality Of food Sthey should
have, will produce at least $50 pounds of but
ter per annum. Hence, we have to charge TO
neglect in those essentials the difference be-
tween 81 pounds and $50 pounds, or 50 pounds
per COW, which gives US IA, oil ,245 pounds, at
10 cents per pound amounts to 1926, 6S7.
Add to this amount S cents per pound, as the
loss in quality on the actual product Of $685.
40, as given above, and we have the grand
total of $3, ILL., rs as the actual loss to the
dalrymen of this State the past year from the
neglect to provide the requisite care and food
for their COWS and the want of the proper skill,
or neglect in manufacturing desirable quail
ity Of dairy goods.
NATURAL ADVANTAGES.
We have the raw material in abundance. All
oyer our State are the most nutritious native
grasses grown anywhere, in any State OF in any
part of the world. In our COWS we
have the machines which, il kept
in the proper condition will produce milk that
as to quantity and quality cannot be excelled.
The
IMPROVED BREEDS
ere improved machines which will produce the
material for the finest quality of goods. Sur
mounted as are in all directions with these
conditions for success, why do we not succeed
Why is it that our bovine factories are operated
year after year without profit to their owners
loss of over 100000 from the product of
less than 100000 mich COWS, is e fact for
serious consideration.
WHAT Is THE REMEDY?
Think moment of this neighboring CITY of
Minneapolis. Who has not heard of the North
Star Wooden mills? Who has not he ard of their
those mills have world wide reputation for
the fine quality of goods manufactured.
Why is it?
In the first place they have good qualities of
wool and wheat. Our State has a reputation
for the growth Of g fine quality of wool and
wheat. The owners Of these mills procure the
best machinery for manufacturing their pro-
ductions. Then they must have skilled opera
tors to run this machinery without which it
would be simply impossible for those mills to
achieve success and establish an enviable repu-
tation wherever their goods are introduced.
UNsKMLED OPERATORS.
Our grasses, climate water, machinery as ap-
piled to COWS is all right to manufacture good
quality of dairy goods, and our failure to es-
tablish reputation for fine qualities of butter
and cheese and obtain fair profit in their
manufacture is owing entirely to a want of
skill or neglect on the part Of our operatives
our dairymen and dairy women. This is the
rule the dairy interest of our State is con-
Quoted at present.
Week after week all through the past year we
see quoted in the market reports of this CITY
and Minneapolis common store packed butter
3 to 5 cents per pound; cheese, ordinary, S to 6
cents. Tons upon tons have been sold at these
prices. We note the close the past season of
the Clearwater. Anoka and other cheese fac.
tories IN financial Distress patrons OF the last
named factory being required to take their
share of the cheese and endeavoring to sell it
upon the best terms possible.
SAD EXPERIENCES
They have had all the sad experiences they
desire with these factories. They were sur.
rounded with I'LL tho natural conditions TO,
success; but the operator, the cheese maker.
did not understand his business, and the enter.
prise ended a disastrous failure. Negligent,
careless, unskilled operatives, butter and
cheese makers, is the only cause for the present
rule of great loss in quantity and quality Of
dairy goods produced in our State.
1t is pleasant and highly gratifying to note
the exceptions to this rule. I know of some
CHEESE FACTORIES
that are making as fine a quality of cheese as
is manufactured in the best factories in the
season at 8 to 80 cents per pound; as high az
the best New York factories.
Along the line of the Southern Pacific good
butter sells readily at 20 cents, and choice,
made by skilled hands, is selling at Is cents.
This is being done where cows have free pastur-
age, and where hay can be put up for 81 to
$1.5O per ton: This is being done in other
POI 10 VI Jul 0OdUCs 1A0 UcbU Ud1I1Sb OIL DuGIer
in New York are selling at Is to 10 cents per
pound. Cows pastured on lands worth from
$50 to $3.50 per acre. Hay worth from $40 to
$12 per ton, COWS higher in price than here,
bran to feed them from Minnesota wheat;
quantity of milk reduced from an extensive
abortion among their cows, a disease unknown
in Minnesota.
Does not this show at glance without demon
stration Of figures the rapid prosperity that
would attend the production of dairy goods in
our State if but skill and care were shown in
their manufacture?
LACK OF SYSTEM.
Now what shall we do as remedy for the
present defective system, or rather lack of sys-
tenn, as now practiced 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 he
established in this city and Minneapolis. where
butter and cheese may be sold without the in
PREVENTION of the middle man in the market az
is so generally practiced in the cities of the
East, securing greater profit to our producers
We need in this city or Minneapolis general
dairy furnishing store that would keep q COM
plete outfit for cheese and butter factories: q
house that would manufacture cheese yats.
milk cans, and full line of furnishing goods
for butter and cheese factories and farm dsiries.
We should no longer go to Chicago and Elgin
for this line of goods.
ADVANTAGE OF ASSOCIATION.