Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-15

cover how fruiltless and vain has been their wor
ship. The perceive scattered all around them
multitude of fatal wrecks, the sad evidences ot
unwisdom in methods, the mournful results Of
uninformed and uninstructed industry.
The bhghting curse of mortgaged farms anC
implements of husbandry was fast crushing out
all desire for manly efforts, since the futur,
promised nothing but foreclosure and ruin.
| Is it any wonder then, gentlemen, that they
| turned willing ear to the heralds and prophets
of more saving gospel?
1t is strange that they hailyou as the Messiahs o
new dispensation that assures deliverance from
the crushing burden of debt and embarrassment
that for years had kept upon their industry its
paralyzing hand?
The warmth of our welcome, gentlemen, is
doubly strengthened and intensified by the
character of our environment. We are already
prepared by the disastrous experience of a quar-
ter of a century to receive your doctrines. You
will find us ripe for humble and obedient dis
cipleship; quick to embrace your faith and eager
to profit by your teachings.
We have read of your achievements in the
fields OF your early endeavors. We know some
thing of the success that has crowned your eff
forts in the good specialties you advocated dur
ing the seventeen years of your organization
We trust with your counsels you Will impart tC
US your confidence and that in a future not fan
distant we may be enabled to emulate your wise
example.
And now, gentlemen, 1 again tender you
hearty welcome and in behalf of the officials ol
this beautiful city we proffer you its freedom
and of its citizens the most abundant measure
OF their hospitality.
Col R. G. McGlency responded on be-
half of the officers of the association in a
cordial appreciation of the warm and hos
pital reception rendered them and express
ed hope that benefits looked for from
this meeting would be reached.
ANNUAL ADDRESS.
The following address of the president,
W. D. Hoard, Esq, of Fort Atkinson, Wis.
was then listened to with great interest
and attention varied with expressions of
approval in the shape of good honest ap
plause.
Gentlemen of the Northern Dairymen's As
sociation: 1t affords me unmingled pleasure
to great you on this, our seventeenth annual
meeting, and to notice present so many of the
old and tried workers whose fashioning
thoughts have so greatly nodded have so great
ly moulded public sentiment on the important
questions we yearly meet to consider.
Allow me to call your attention to the peculil ar
circumstances under which we meet. Of late
years our annual meetings have been held in old
and well established dairy districts, where right
theory and intelligent practice had worked out
justifying results. But now this pioneer as
scciation of the West has ventured
once more on pioneer ground. We are
assembled to-day in the bright
and beautiful city of Mankato, in the heart of
southwestern Minnesota, which constitutes one
of the most inviting fields for dairy enterprise
in this entire land. We come here as guests,
cordially invited and right royalty welcomed.
and doubt if any of you can remember any
such pioneer dairy meeting as this You are
called to meet in this distant portion of the
Northwest with the hope that your deliberations
may have a marked effect in stimulating thought
and action toward the promotion of dairy hus-
bandry in Minnesota. Many of the most earn
est and intelligent citizens of this enterprlsing
commonwealth have united their efforts
in securing your attendance here. 1t is
an honor to this association that it has been
selected for the accomplishment of such i'm
pOrtant work, and | trust our labors may be per-
formed with that harmony and thoroughness that
shall fully justify all anticipations.
OBJECT OF THE ASSOCIATION.
The object and purpose of this association is
the promotion of dairy knowledge in the North
west. That is a plain and simple proposition,
yet it covers the whole ground wide variety
of interests are included, yet all reciprocal.
The milk producer feels its influence IN the in
struction and stimulus it imparts to him concern
ing his portion of the work. The butter and
cheese manufacturer values it for the technical
knowledge here impaired. The manufacturer of
dairy utensils joins the ranks, for it helps him
as it ought to. The railroad and transportation
companies recognize the value and effect of so
important an agent in furthering the producing
capacity of the country, from which, like the
farmer, they draw their sustenance. All general
business interests give it aid and comfort-for
IL Al c,,1t ol-at
feel. To group all these different interests and
make them work in harmony cannot fail to re-
suit in the promotion of material
prosperity. Dairymen, more than any
other class of agriculturalists, seem
to possess the ability to work in concert with
each other and all others in the promotion of
their interests; and what are their interests are
the interests of the community at large, so felt
and recognized everywhere.
There is strong power in organization.I will illus
trate with one example: In 1872 the cost of ship
ping cheese from Wisconsin to New York in COM
mon freight cars was about two and half cents
a pound The Wisconsin Dairymen's s association,
which had lust been organized and had not over
a half-dozen active men IN its ranks instructed
its secretary to visit Chicago and, as
its duly authorized representative, Sc
cure, if possible, more favorable meaus
and rates of transportation to the seaboard.
The result of that visit was the agreement on
the part of a leading refrigerator line to trans
port cheese from Wisconsin, in refrigerator cars
to New York for one cent per pound. Nineteen
twentieths of the dairymen of the state could not
then see the value of organizing and keeping up
such an organization, but the difference of
cent and halfa pound soon helped their vision
wonderfully. A half dozen men accomplished
this; the great Indifferent majority reaped the
benefit of it. By means of this organization was
established the now famous Elgin dairy board
of trade, whose transactions last year amounted
to over two millions of dollars. Other boards
of trade have also been established. By virtue
of the three leading associations of the country,
the Northwestern, the National But
ter, Cheese and Egg Association,
and the Wisconsin association, the dairymen of
the Northwest vera enabled to hold dairy fair
last December that eclipsed any previous at
tempt of the kind in this country. By the aid
of this and sister organizations the dairymen of
the Northwest have become recognized as a
living force in the land. Another of its objects
is to increase the profit of farming and enhance
the productive value of real estate; another, to
educate and enlighten the farmer in all that per-
tains to this branch of agriculture, and thereby
increase his respect both for his business and
himself. We strive to take him out of the great
majority who persist in crude and wasteful farm
ing, and place him among the few that are
saved. The ''betterment" idea lies at the root
of:dairy farming. 1t opens to b m new pOsibili-
ties; offers him larger and surer rewards; con-
fronts him with q constant succession of new