Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-19
THE DAIRY.

Learning Wisdom by EXperience-A Call
For a Union Dairy Meeting.
The seventeenth annual meeting of the
Northwestern Dairymen's association,
which has just closed its session at Manka-
to, and which has been so fully reported in
the GLOBE, marks an epoch in the era of
progress in agriculture in Mime sofa
which is fraught with the highest benefit
to our entire commonwealth and should be
hailed with delight by each and every citi-
zen. The success which attended the meet
ing, both as regards the crowds which
were constantly at its every session, the
upabated interest manifested from first to
last in every exercise and talent and ability
of those to whom was delegated the dis
cussion of the different topics has never
been equaled before in the history of the
association. Had it not been for the block
AIDED condition of the roads and the uncer-
tainty of travel, the city of Mankato would
have been taxed to its utmost ca
pacity to accommodate all who came.
When the impoverished districts of the
older states of Wisconsin and Illinois, ex-
hausted, are rendered unremunerative by
long succession of the cultivation of
special crop are made again productive,
and their farmers homes made to take on
thrifty and prosperous look by the intro
duction of mixed agriculture and the
vigorous prosecution of dairying,
southern Minnesota at least can see the
cure for her manifest ills, and thespontan-
eous gathering of so large number of
her farmers and the interest manifested
and good acknowled to have been receiv-
ed, tells that they are alive at last to their
own best interests.
In no section of Minnesota has the con-
tinued succession of wheat raising under
mined the fertility of her remarkably pro-
ductive soil more than in
the southeastern part, and the many
successive failures of that crop for the
most total stagnation of business and has
at last taught her farmers not to put their
trust IN that land exhausting cereal.
A conversation few days since with one
of the leading bankers of Rochester elicit
ed the fact that the introduction of cream
cries and cheese factories within the past
two or three years had already worked won
ders for the farmers in that community
Old neglected and nearly worthless bust
ness paper was being sought for and re-
deemed, and Epointing TO 4 their streets
crowded with teams ne said "Three years
ago these streets looked like graveyard
compared to this and the introduction of
the diary on the farms wrought this most
happy change"
It is to be hoped and confidently expected
that the lessons inculcated at the meeting
at Mankato will give an impetus to the
introduction of the dairying interest
among our farmers and it is highly impor-
tant that all engaged or engaging in this
new branch of agriculture should avail
themselves of every opportunity to OBJ
tain information. Below will be
found the call for union
meeting of two separate state organiza-
tions having practically the same end in
view, and which it is now proposed to
merge into one. This consolidation,
which is invited by the call signed by the
presidents of the respective societies, is a
step in the right direction, and the meet
ing will no doubt be well attended.
UNION DAIRY MEETING.
4 union annual meeting of the ''Minne-
sofa Butter and Cheese association" and
the minnesota Dairy association" will be
held at Rochester, March and 8, 1898.
As the executive officers of the two asso-
Citations, we extend cordial invitation to
all who are interested to attend. Rochester
will give you a hearty welcome.
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