Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-21
BUTTER AND CHEESE.


Annual Meeting OF the Mime
sofa Butter and Cheese Associ.
atIon-Addresses and Discus
sions :tss Is 81: t&l p. ~. /. - zsEtS#z1. i. \
The third annual meeting of the Mime.
sofa Butter and Cheese association was held
at Austin, Mower county. The attendance
was large, and the proceedings during three
days session were Of considerable inteJes.
TO farmers, and especially to dairymen.
President G. E. Marvin of Rochester pre-
sided. .' "s.s.-< -.~ ID.
An address of welcome was made by
Rev, e. R. Lsthrop of Austin, and a re-
Spouse by G. A. Houston of Iowa, who at
tended the FIRST Minnesota Dairymen's asso-
citation at Rochester two years ago. He
said: .'That part of Iowa which had given
attention to stock raising and dairying has
exceeded every other part in prosperity, as
is seen in the comforts, Improvements and
conveniences of farm life there. We be-
.lieve that Southern Minnesota, which lies
in the great dairy belt of this grand coun-
try is to b. lifted up into great prosperity
by more attention to this great interest.
In i've years more the change from whe t
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
sic counties in our State that few years
since only made from $4,000 to 10000
pounds of butter and cheese, annually have
increased under its creamery and factory
system to 100000, and in some cases to
more than 100000 pounds year. This
has porportionately increased the amount of
A~oP ~ lr1r~
these products al ways increase in the ascne
ratio with butter and cheese. From + repu-
tation of manufacturing only the most COM
mon grades of butter and cheese, the pro-
duct Of the Northern dairy has SO improved
that it is highly complimented and sought
after in all the leading markets because of
its superior body, texture asd flavor.
The solution os the oleomargarine or adj
liberated product question it seems to me
is to produce goods of the highest possible
quality and Standard; cooperate to make
them on the most economical practicable
plan; place them on the markets at prices
that will guarantee their use by the masses;
insist that impure goods shall be sold for
so diminish that factories must close for
want of patronage. To successfully accom-
plish this the patrons must sustain the
manufacturer and be willing that he should
realize fair profit, which will enable him
to success ully prosecute his business.
Secretary Rice OF Olmsted county nlads
an address in which he spoke of the advan-
tages of paying increased attention to the
cow. These are aeen in increased thrift, in
dustry, peace, and culture. Olmsted coun.
ty in four years has doubled her number of
COWS also OF sheep. and Quadruplad her
number of hogs; and never, with two ex.
captions, raised as much wheat as this year.
Rochester stores keep hardly any book &C.
counts; $4,000 month is paid for Olmsted
county cream, and three farm mortgages are
now paid off where one is put on. Four
teen Olmsted county men have gone to
Europe this year to buy stock.
A large volume OF statistics were intro
duoed to which brief reference may be
made.
The value or this years butter product
in Minnesota, at an average valuation OF 30
cents per pound, will exceed S. 100000 and
that Of last year was lose to IS, 600. In
1880 there wasn't a singls creamery in the
state worthy the Dame and the one erected
at Spring Valley in 1881 was much COM
mented upon. To-day, there are seventy
sizeble creameries or butter factories, and
tReir number is beng augmented almost
every month. The success of farmers in
Northern Iowa, in raising milch cows and
selling the product, stimulated 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
more southe'ly parts, ard good judges pre-
dict that within the next
decade the value of the annual fairy
product in Minnesota will exceed ten
millions of dollars. The methods employed
have been described frequently. A cream
cry is built in town or smsll city in the
center Of a good grazing country. Farmers
with mich COWS are supplied with cans of
such diameter that an inch of cream there
in will make pound of butter and ere paid
by the inch, the price ranging from nine
teen to twenty-five cents, though the latter
is unusual and regarded very high. The
tanners generally acknowledge that they
receive more for the cream when sold in
this way than they could make if they man.
utactured it into butter and then sold it,
The creameries have wagons and regular
routes from which the cream is gathered as
often as needed. Few of the farmers have
any large 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 heifers are
make the business pay. AS the creameries
leave the milk on the farms the calves don't
have to be killed as formerly
and a usual adjunct of thu
cattla herd is drove of hogs, to whom the
surplus milk is given. Both hogs and cat
tie require corn for fatteniug purposes, and
IL is es mated that in Fillmore the largest
dairyirg county in the state, $4,000 acres
were planted in corn lsst year, as against
$1,000 acres in 1882, the latter acreage being
hugely in excess Of that of former years.
home consumption, but send their product
to the east, or to large home cities like St.
Paul and Minneapolis. The making of
cheese does not meet with much favor, and
the amount manufactured in the state in
1882 was but 247, 1856 pounds. Cheese facto-
RES take ell the milk, leaving nothing for
fattening calves and hogs. ~
From advance sheets Of Commissioner
Malmres' statistics for 1883 it appears that
there were 247, 600, COWS In the state of Min
nesota in 1888: butter made in 1882,
amounted to 17,736, 1888.
The number of pounds of bntter for 1888
is not given or estimated, but at II 8 10
pounds to the cow, the yield of 1882, the
product for the present year will reach H.
747, 954, or more than 6O), 600 in excess of
the product of 1882. Coupled with the
above table is column in which it is sta.
ted that there are thirty-tkree cheese fac
tories i'll the state,
With the growth of the dairy interest
came the interesting query 'What is the
most profitable breed of cattle for Mime
sota's uses?" The question has not been
fully settled, since the years of trial have as
yet been SO few. Many farmers have spent
large sums for pure bred bulls, and the i'm
provemens in quality ia one of the
most notable outgrowths of the las:
few years. Shorthorns, Holsteins, Polled
Argus and Jerseys have been brought in,
and at the Mankato convention last year
Messrs. McGlincy of Minnesota and Curtis
Of New 7 ork were unqualified in their I'D.
vocacy of the Jerseys as cream givers. They
might have quoted the remark of q Penn.