The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-12-20
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BUTTER AND CHEESE.

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Abstract Of the Proceedings of tho
Annual Meeting Of the Mime
sofa Butter and Cheese Associ.
acknowledgements and Discus.
sions.
The third annual meeting of the Mime
sofa Butter and Cheese association was h.ld
At Austin, Mower u unity. The attendance
vas Large, and the proceedings during three
days session were OF considerable interest
10 farmers, and especially to dalrymen.
President G. E. Martin OF Rochester pre-
sided.
An address of Welcome was made by
Rev. E. 4. Lathrop Of Austin, and re-
Spouse by G. A. Houston OF Iowa, who at
tended the first Minnesota Dairymen's assp-
citation at Rochester two years ago. He
said: THAT part of lowe which had given
attention to stock raising and da,rying has
exceeded every other part in prosperity, as
Is seen in the cou forts, Improvements and
conveniencss of farm lie there. We be.
lieve that Southern Minnesota, which lies
in the great dairy belt of this grand coun-
try, is TO be lifted up into great prosperity
by mere attention to this great interest.
In five years more the change from who
10 carrying will be wonderfully eppsr.
enl."
President Marvin delivered an annual ad-
dress. He said the growth OF this industry
during the past few years is marvs Gus. Sin.
clio counties in our State tAat few years
since only made from $4,000 to 100000
pounds of butter and cheese, annually have
Increased Under its creamery and factory
system to 500 900, and in some cases to
~ I do
has porporiionately increased the amount of
beef, pork, poultry and eggs produced as
these pIoducts ways increase tn the same
ratio with butter and cheasa. From b repu-
tat;en CT manufacturing onlv the most COM
laoc grades of butter and cheese, tAe pro-
duct Of the Northern dairy has SO improved
that it is highly comElimented and sought
after in ali the leading markets because of
its suDerior BODY. texture a:d flavor.
The solution os the oleonsrsarine Of ad4
liberated product question 1t seems to ne
is to produce goods OF the highest possible
quality and standard: Cooperate to make
them on the most economist practicable
plan; place them on the markets ut prices
that will guarantee their use by the masses;
ins1s: that impure goods shall DC sold for
what they are, and soon their demand will
want Of patronage. To successfully accom-
p!ish this the patrons must sustain the
manufacturer and be willing that he should
| realize fair pto6t. which will! enable him
to success ully prosecute his business.
Secretary Rice Of OAnsted county made
Al address in which he spoke of the a1van.
tsges Of paying increased ATTENTION to the
COW. These arc 3e5n IN increased thrift, ill.,
ds:stfy, peace. and culture. Olmsted cQun>
ty in four years has doubled her number CT
| COWS, else o: sheep. and auadru,. I'd her
n ~ =, V<,ct
captions, raisec IS much wheat as this wear,
| Rochester stores keep hardly any book &C.
| counts; $500 q month is paid Tor Olmste ed
| county cream, and three farm mortgages ase
now paid otf where one is put on. Four
| teen u rstad county men have gone to
Europe this year to bug stock.
! A large volume OF statistic. we're intro.
| duoed 20 which bret reference lnay he
| made.
| TIE value OF this years butter proauc:
! Il MlDrescta,at an average v2l1ation Of 81
certs per pound, will exceed Il. zoe co, End
that Of Last year WAS Use 10 IS Gee. Ia
! 1880 these wasn't q single creamery il the
state worthy the na:>>..s ard The Ola ereotsj
a. acs!Hree willy 10 1881 vas much CON.
I nlented upon. To-day there are seventy
| sixstle ciaanle;iss or butter fac,o.iee, and
taeir humber Is being s;gnt eLted almost
| every month. The SUCCESS Of farmers iu
Northern Iowa, in raising mich cows and
! selling the proa'ct, stimulated Interest in
the matter IN Southern Minnesota an! from
| the Manchester creamery in Iowa, es:ab
sprung up in both states. The middle aad
central northern portions CT Minnesota ars
slso beginning to fl;io tbs example OF the
more so.the ~ raits. scd good judges pre-
dirt that within the next
! decade the va!ue of the annual fairy
prcduc. il Minnesota will exceed ton
millions OF dollars. The methods emp " ed
have ben described Frequently. A cream.
cry IS built in .cw..i or s:usll city in t;ie
ccntSr Ut good grazing country: Farmers
| with Milch cows are sapplied viii, cans OF
| in will make pound OF butter, and ore PAID
BY the icch, the price -a,sing from n:ne'
teen to twenty-five cents, though the latter
is unusual and regarded very high. The
fa1mers generally acknowledge that they
! receive more 70. the cream when sci il
this way than they couil max. il they .na2
u!actursd it into butter and then soli it
The creallesiss have wagons and re;:ulsl
routes from which tla cream is gathered a.
Offer os neeaed. Few Of the farmers have
any large herds, tie object being to make
the dairy interest an adjunct to the regn! !.
agricultural pursuits. The steers wer
raised for beef and enough OF the heifers ar
kept to insure large enough herd Il
make the Business pay. AS the creamerie
ave the milk on the farms the CT Ives dom
nave to be killed as formerly
and q usual adjunct of tn.
cat'la herd is drove Of hogs, to whom IT,.
surplus milk is given. Both hogs and Cat
,le require earn Tor fsttering purposes, ane
it is e. mated that in FILLMORE the largest
dairyirs county in the state, $1,000 acre.
were planted in corn list year, es ayai1 q
$1,000 acres in 1882, the latter acreage heirs
.rgely IN exc IS Of that of former wears
| Ine cseau.eries do not furnish butter fl
home Consumption, bat send their rro3uc
to the east, or to large home cities Ike St.
Paul aud Minneapolis. The making Of
cheese does not meet with much favor, and
the amount manufactured in the state in
ries take ell the milk, leaving nothing for
fattening Ives and hogs.
| From Advance shees Of Commissioner
Mnlalrss' statistics for 1888 it appears that
there were 2i7 0GO, COWS in thu stats of Min
neSota in 1888: butter made in 1882,
amounted to 1875, 7s8.
| The number of pounds Of butter for 1888
is not given or estimated but at II 10
pounds to the COW, the yiell of 1882, the
product for the presen: year will reach IT,
| 747 1854, or mere than COlC0O in excess OF
|
| above taols is q column in which it is sta.
ted that. there are thirty. tkree cheese fac.
tories in the state,
With the growth of the dairy interest
came the interesting query "What is the
most profitable breed If cattle for Mime
sota's uses?' The question has not been
fully settled, since the yesrs of trial have as
yet been so few. Many farmers have spent
large sums for pure bred bulls, and the i'm
provement in quality ia one OF the
most notable outgrowths of the las.
few years. Shorthorns, Holsteins, Polled
Argus ana Jerseys ha We been brought in,
and at the Mankato convention last wear
Messrs. Mckinney of Minnesota and Curtis
OF New 1~fz were unqualified in their ad.
vocacy of the Jerseys as cream give1s. They
might lave quoted the remark of a Penn.
sylvania owner of small-framed breed.
who averred "You can pick up your Jersey
COW and carry her when you want her, but
set her down and milk her and 1t will tire
you to carry away the cream" The Polled
| Angus with large frames and sturdy consti-
tutions, are regarded highly as beef cattle,
and Shorthorns, Holsteins and other breeds
| have their warm advocates, the predelic-
tions of the owners probably governing their
Judgment to some extent.
Tie first paper read was on Creameries