Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-04
THE DAIRY DEPARTMENT.

The DAIRY UEH ARI MEN L.
This department is certainly credit to
the fair. and one Of considerable interest
to the farmers. The exhibits embrace some
very fine full cream cheese, some half
skins, and few Swiss cheese, in all mum
bering about 200, ad all the products OF
Minnesota factories. There are some
twenty or more creameries represented
showing some very choice butter, fully
equal to that made at Elgin, ILL.,, which
has the reputation of making the best but
ter made in the states. large number
of farmers, their wives and daughters have
made butter especially for the fair, and
the people of Minnesota need not feel
ashamed of the product Of their farms
and creameries, indeed they have
made a long stride toward per
lection. and the state fair officers are de-
serving of much praise for booming this
industry. IN which they have been ably
seconded by the officers of the Butter and
Cheese association. The Hberality mani
tested in this department will add thou
sands of dollars to the wealth of the state.
and in the future people will bless this first
effort made to encourage this enterprise.
Besides the creamery and farm dairy
butter. several ladies have sent in butter,
which has been wrought into all possible
shapes, the artistic moulding of which
would please the most esthetic taste and
win praise from the epicures. 1t is almost
impossible to accurately imagine the
shapes which it has been made to assume,
but there you will find birds. stars, sheep and
a full grown COW, together with flowers,
leaves, and in fact almost every con-
ceivable object is here represented. The
ladies are entitled to much praise for their
hearty cooperation in assisting to make
this department worthy of the state. In
one wing of the building
A REFRIGERATOR
forty feet long, eight feet high and four
feet deep has been erected, the front of
which is glass, thus giving visitors fine
opportunity of seeing the butter and
cheese without handling it. On the top of
this building is large ice chest, with a
capacity for 1000 pounds of ice, by the
means of which the refrigerator is
kept at an even temperature,
many degrees colder than the tenn
perature outside, thus preservingthe butter
and cheese in splendid condi-
ton. On a portion Of the roof of
the refrigerator are pyramids of cheese
boxes, butter tubs, and cream cans. Atthe
western extremity of the refrigerator
shelves have been arranged whereon a
magnificent display of cheese is made. In
close proximity to this is a pyramid of
Ashton salt, which is so essential for the
manufacture of butter and cheese; on the
opposite corner of the angle is a pyramid
of Higgins salt on Shelf, on the side Of
which is magnificent solid silver cup,
valued at $50, which will be awarded
to the maker of the best butter
saited with Higgins Eureka salt. The
winner of this prize will of necessity feel
no little pride in his good fortune. The
cup is elegantly engraved, containing be-
sides the inscription, blank being left
for the name of the winner, perfect pic
ture of noble looking Shorthorn COW.
which looks as though she were waiting
for the poetical milkmaid to relieve her of
her heavy burden. This is assuredly a
prize worth having. The Ashton people
offer prizes amounting to $50 in cash fol-
the best butter and cheese salted with
their salt In the center of the dairy de.
partment will be found large assortment
of
CREAMERY FIXTURES,
including an engine which is in opera
ton. being driven by boiler, outside the
building and some thirty feet away from
it: also the celebrated rectangular and
square box churns; dog powers for churn-
ing; creamers, cream gathering and cream
raising cans, the we'll known Peerless but
ter color; butter and cheese packages
cheese presses, and in fact, almost all the
utensils used in operating a butter an6
cheese factory. The display is much lar
may be taken as additional proof that Min
nesota is bound to become dairy state al
no distant day.
MAKING BUTTER.
The superintendent of this division /:
now making arrangements to show the peo
pie here how creamery butter is made
Milk from the fine herds now here will bs
used, the cream will be raised in the build
ing, and butter will be made in the pres
ence of the visitors, feat never before at
tempted at any state fair, and one which
cannot fail to interest all. This event viii
probably occur on the Governors day.
next Thursday, and will in itself pay tht
farmers who may go many miles to at
tend the fair. This will prove practica
object lesson of almost incalcula
BILE value to those who conte mplate star
ing in this business. We have no doub
that this delicate operation will be wit
messed by thousands of persons who vii
no longer wonder how such elegant butte
can be made as is turned out at the cream