Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-07
THE DAIRYMEN.
co: CLUSlON OF THE VERY INTER-
ESTING MEETING.
Mrs. WadswOrth Reads an Essay on Butter
Maklng-Are Men or Women the Best
Butter Makers?-Awarding Premiums
Giving Personal Experience-Election Of
Officers.

The second days session of the Mime
sofa Dairymen's association was called to Or
der at 10 o'clock yesterday morning by
President Gardner. The attendance was
fair and the interest taken in the proceed.
ings was manifested by the close attention
given to the remarks made by speakers.
The president, on motion, appointed a
committee consisting of W. G. Hendrickson,
st. Paul, G. LIE Vescoute, Hastings; and A.
P. Foster, to award premiums on the butter
and dairy implements exhibited.
An essay was then read by the secretary,
prepared by Moses Hutchinson, of Ovation
na. The paper was an able and interesting
one on the subject of butter-making. The
object of the association was to discuss the
practicability of making the North Star
State as renown for its dairy products +
especially butter-as it is now for fancy
flour. Dairymen are and have been in a
dilemma similar to what millers were when
they supposed the grain of flour was made
by grinding the kernel-they could not
agree upon any style of mill
stone or method of grinding, but
they learned that the grain was not
formed by grinding but formed in fine glo-
bules while the kernel was growing. Gilt
edge butter can be made if large per cent
of the globules are destroyed, but it cannot
be left for any length of time without loos-
ing it's flavor. The question arises is there
not false theory in the regard of the man.
ufacture of butter. Butter globules are the
fruit of animal life, if the COW is not in
perfect health the butter will spoil by long
keeping. The COW is the means whereby
the dairy man must convert the product of
his land into milk, and his profits depend
much upon the per cent. of food his COWS
convert into milk. A COW may be perfect
for making beef yet her milk would not
pay for the food she eats; many advocate
that COWS can be so bred that they will be
good for both. I admit they can in part, yet
if they excel in one they lack in the
other.
Mrs. L. H. Wadsworth, of Waseca, then
delivered an address on the subject of max
ing granulated butter. The lady prefaced
her remarks by calling attention to the alb
sence of ladies' from the meeting, in her
opinion as the wives of dairymen did the
most of the work incidental to making but
ter, she thought they should attend the
meetings of the association. A description
of what she saw at the International dairy
exhibition in New York was very interesting.
She then gave minute account of how
eranulated butter, of which she showed q
sample, was made. The cream used was
raised in the Cooley creamery at 40 degrees,
the milk skinned every twelve hours; the
cream was then heated to 120 degrees by i'm
mersing the can containing the cream in hot
water; it was then allowed to cool to 60 de-
grees and then put in the churn. When it
commenced to curdle a quantity of water,
about six quarts, to which was put two hand
fuls of salt, was put in to cool it. The but
ter was then washed twice in cold water,
care being taken not to move
the mass any more than necessary,
the butter was then allowed to stand in q
strong brine about two hours and then
packed in the jar in which it was brought to
St. Paul. This manner of preparing butter
was new idea, the method keeping the
butter in a better manner than it could be
after being worked. .Messrs. Higgins &
Hoyt, of New York, were at present engaged
in having butter which was prepared in this
| way sent to them, and one lot having been
sent to England, after a six weeks journey,
| worked and found to be as sweet as though
| it had Just been taken from the dairy. Mrs.
Wadworth had only been two years in the
dairy business, but thought a rectangular
churn was the best that could be Obtained
From what experience she had, the Jersey
breed of COWS were the best butter makers.
The cream made best butter when it reached
a slightly acid state.
Mr.. Clifford thought there was no
need of heating the cream to
such high degree and that while more but
ter could be made from having the cream
q trifle sour it would not make as sweet but
ter as could be made from sweet cream.
MIR. Chaplin thought there was no neces-
sity to heat the cream to more than los de-
grees, he was also of the opinion that cream,
slightly sour made the best butter.
Mr.. Clifford said he had been in the
dairy business for twenty years, and he
ought to know more about the matter than
one who had, from their own statement,
only been engaged in the work two years.
Mr.. Hutchinson thought two years scienti-
fc experience was better than century of
practical experience.
Mr.. Deering, while being much pleased
with the remarks of Mrs. Wadsworth,
thought her idea that the wives of dairymen
did the most of the work in butter making
was entirely wrong. In his experience he
had always had the work done by men, be-
cause he found the work of cleaning up
after women was more bother than to do the
same work. He had examined some of the
finest diaries in the country and found that
men were the makers of the best butter in
the markets.
Mr.. Joseph Haskell, an old settler of
Washington county, who made butter forty
years ago, stated that the difference between
the preeent method and the one then used
was very great, but as his wife made what
butter they then used he could give no de-
scription of how it was prepared.
The members expressed their thanks to
Mrs. Wadsworth for her remarks by rising
vote.
The meeting then adjourned to meet at 2
o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Meeting called to order at o'clock.
The secretary, w. j. Abernethy, presented
q letter stating that owing to business en-
gagements he would be compelled to resign
his position. On motion the resignation
was accepted, and H. E. Newton, of Mime
apolis, was elected secretary pro tenn.
President Gardner then brought up and
read description of the patent can, known
as the Fairlamb milk can, which is used in
ootharifo cream from the farmers and tax