The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21
BUTTER AND CHEESE.


sofa Butter and Cheese Associ.
siGns. ~
The third annual meeting of the Mime
sofa Gutter aud Cheese association was held
at Austin, Mower U unity. The attendance
was large, and the proceedings during three
days session were Of considerable interest
to farmers, and e'ps}ially to dairymen.
President G. +. Marvia Of Rochester pre-
sided.
An address Of welcome was made by
Rev. E. Il. LathrOp of Austin, and q re-
Spouse by c. A. Houston Of Iowa, who at.
tended the first Minnesota D4irymen's asSo.
citation at Rochester two years ago. He
said: That part of Iowa which had given
attention to stock raising and darrying has
exceeded every other part in prosperity, as
il seen in the comforts, Improvements and
convenience of farm life there. We be.
lieve, that Southern Minnesota, which lies
in tbs 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 whe I
to dairying will be wonderfully appar'
ent."
President Marvin delivered an annual ad-
dress. He said the growth of this industry
during the past few years is marvellous. Sin,
Gle counties in our State that O lew years
since only made from $4,000 to 100000
pounds OF butter a1d cheese, annually have
increased under its creamery and factory
system to 100000, and in some cases to
more than 100000 pounds a year. This
has porportionately increased the amount of
beef, pork, poultry and eggs produced as
these p5o2uCts ! Rsys increase in the same
ratio with butter AND cheese. From q repu-
tation of manufacturing onlv the most com.
mon grades OF butter and cheese, tae pro-
duct of the Northern dairy has so improved
that it is highly compljmentPd and sought
after in ali the leading markets because of
its superior body. texture AID flavor.
The solution OS the oleomergarlne or adj
ulterated product question it seems TO me
is to produce goods of the highest possible
quality and standard; cooperate to make
mem on the most economical practicable
plan; place them or the markets at prices
that will guarantee their use by the masses;
insist that impure goods shall be sold for
what thty are, and soon their demand will
so diminish that factories must el Ose for
want of patronage. To successfully accom-
plish this the patrons must sustain the
manufacturer and be willing that he should
realize a fair profit, which will enable him
to success uIly prosecute his business.
Secretary Rice of 0lmsted county made
an address in which he spoke of the advan.
tsges of paying increased attention to the
COW. These are geen in increased thrift, In
dustry, peace, and culture. 0lmsted coun.
ty in four years has doubl ID her number of
cows, also OF sheep, and quadruplsG her
number of hogs; and never, with two ex.
Ceptions, raised IS much wheat as this year.
Rochester stores keep hardlC any book &C.
counts; So, 6G0 q month is paid for Olmsted
county cream, and three farm mortgages are
now paid ott where n is put on, Four"
teen Oh nsted county men have gone to
Europe this year 10 buy stoca.
A large volume of statistics were intro
tHoed TO which brief reference may be
made. e.
The value OF this years butter product
in Minnesota. at az average valuation of 80
cents per pound, will exceed SIS, 300, 600, and
that OF last yeBr was lose TO 50. O06. In
1880 there wasn't q single creamery in the
state worthy the name and the one erected
at Spring W iIsy in 1881 was much COM
mented upon. To-day there are seventy
sizBble creameries or butter factories. and
their number is beIng augmented almost
every manth. The success Of farmers in
Northern Iowa, in raising milch COWS and
selling the product, stirn1lated interest in
the matter in Southern Minnesota and from
the Manchester creamery in Iowa, estab-
lished no longer than 1878, scores have
sprung up in bOth states. The middle and
central northern portions Of Minnesota are
slso beginning to follow the example OF the
moro southeil y parts, ard good judges pre-
dict that within the next
decade the yslue of the annual fairy
product in Minnesota will exceed ten
millions OF dollars. The methods employed
have baen described frequently. A cream
cry is built in q town or smsl city, In the
center of a good grazing country. Farmers
with mitch COWS are supplied with cans OF
such diameter that an inch of cream there
in will make a pound of butter. and are paid
by the inch, the price ranging from nine-
teen to twenty-five cents, though the later
is unusual aud regarded very high. Inc
amer generslly acknowledge that they
receive more for the cream when sold In
this way than they couli make if they man
niacturedi il into butter and then Soil IL.
The creameries have wagons regular
routes from which the cream is gathered as
often as needed. Few Of the farmer; have
any | ,rge herds, the object being To make
the dairy interest an adjunct to the regular
agricultural pursuits. The steers were
raised for beef and enough OF the heiiers are
kept to insure a large enough herd to
make the business pay. AS the creameries
l.ave the milk on the farms the calves don't
have to be killed as formerly
and a usual adjunct of the
cattle herd Is drove of hogs, to whom the
surplus milk Is given. Both hogs and cat.
lis require c srn for fattening purposes, and
il Is es mated that in FILLMORE the largest
dairyir & county in the state, $1,000 acres
were planted in corn asst year, as against
81, COO acres IL 1882, the litter acre age beiEg
largely in excess of that of former years.
The creameries do not furnish butter fr
home consumption, but send their product
to the east, or to lsrge home cities like st:
Paul and Minneapolis. The making OF
cheese does not meet with much favor, and
the amount manufactured Ia the state In
1882 was but PAT, 1876 pounds. Cheese facsc-
ries take eli the milk, leaving nothing for
fattening csIves and hogs.
FROM advance sheets of Commissioner
Melmres' statistics for 1883 it appears that