The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1883-12-20

Abstract OF the Proceedings of TIE
sofa Butter and Cheese Associ.
ation-Addresses and Discus.
sions.
The third annual meeting of the Mime
sofa Butter and Cheese association was htli
at Austin. Mower q, unity. The attendance
was large, and the proceedings during three
days session were of considerable interest
to farmers, and e e,islly to dairymen.
President C. Il. Marvia of Rochester pre-
sided.
An address of welcome was made by
Rev. L. r. Lathrop Of Austin, and d re-
spcnse by O. A. Houston Of lowe, who at
tended the first Mimi ssota Dairymen's asso.
citation at Rochester two years ago. He
said: THAT part of Iowa which had given
attention to stock raising and dalrying has
exceeded every other part in prosperity, as
is seen in the comforts, Improvements and
conveniences of farm l lie there. We be-
lieve that Southern Minnesots, which lies
in the great dairy belt of this srana couta-
try, is TO b. lifted up into great prosperity
by mere attention TO this great interest.
In Eve years more the change from whe
10 clarifying will be wonderfully sppsr.
en,."
President Marvin delivered On annual ad-
dress. he said the growth OF this industry
during the past few years is mary. sus. SIN
gle counties in our State that a few years
since OILY made from $4,000 to 100000
pounds OF butter aad cheese, annually have
increased under Its creamery and factory
system to 500, 600, and in some cases to
more than 100000 pounds year. This
has poreoriionately increased the amount of
beet, porK, poll ry and eggs produced as
these pfoaucts 1 Ways increase IN the same
| ratio with butter and cheese. From 81 repri-
tStion of manufacturing onlv the most COM
mon grades OF butter and cheese, tae pro-
duct Of the Northern dsiry has SO i'm approved
that 1t is highly conl mented and sought
after in 81 the lesding markets because OF
its superior body. texture AID favor.
The solution os the OeOmargafine 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 practlcabie
plan; place them on the markets. at prices
| that will guarantee their use by the masses;
| insist that lie pure goods snail be sold for
what til, y are, and soon their demand will
so diminish that factories must q )se Tor
want OF patronage. TO successfully accom-
plish this the patrons must sustain the
| manufacturer and be willing that he should
| realize iair profit, which will enable him
| to success uliy prosecu e his business.
Secretary Rice OF Olms.ed county made
an address in which he spoke of the advan.
| tages Of paying increased attention to the
| COW. These are seen in increased thrift, In
| Gustry, peace, and culture. Olmsted coun
| ty in iour years has doucl d her number of
| c.w VS., slso OF sheep. and qusdrul ] ID her
number OF hogs; and never. with two ex.
cap,ions, raised SO much W. eat IS this year.
| Rochester sores keep hardly any b,ok &C
counts: IS coo month is paid ior Olmstsd
| county cream, and three farm mortgages are
| now paid OF where one is pitt on. Four
| teen OF nstsd county men lave gone to
| Europe this year to buy stock.
] & large volume OF statistics were intro.
duoed to which brief reference may be
made.
Tue val1e OF this yesr's butter product
| in MiDneso.a,st a. average Y. nation of 81
cents per pound, will exceed So, 10000, and
(! that OF last year was lose 10 IS eco. In
| 1880 there wasn't singl5 creamery in the
stste worthy the name and the one erected
| at Spring LEY in 1881 was much conf
| mented upon. To-day there are seventy
| siZetle creaneTies or butter factories, and
| their number IS beng augmented almost
| every II nth. The success Of farmers 10
| Northern Iowa, in raising lnilch cows and
| sci jng the product, stimulated Interest in
!
| the Manchester creamery in Iowa, eStsb-
| lished no longer than 1873, scores have
| sprung up in both states. The middle and
! central northern portions of Minnesota are
| .iso beginning to foil ~ the example of the
more southe IL 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 dell ,rs. The methods employed
l =, Z "a
/ cry is built IN town or sni.u city In the
| center OF good grazing country. Farmsrs
| with miich cows are Supplied with cans OF
| suoh diameter thai al inch of cream there
| in will make pound Of butter, and are paid
by the inch, the price ranging from n'ne-
teen to twenty five cents, though the latter
is unusual and regarded very high. The
fa1mers genersl lily acknovl edge that they
! receive more for the cream when scli in
| this way than hey couli lake if they man
| ufactured it into butter and then soli it.
| The creameries have wagons and regular
| routes from which the cream is gathered as
| often as needed. Few of the farmers have
| any ,rge herds, the object being to make
| the dairy interest an adjunct to the regul ar
agricultural pursuits. The steers were
! raised for beef and enough OF the heifers are
kept to insure large enough herd to
make the business pay. As the creanierle
ave the milk on the farms the CT Ives don't
have to be killed as formerly
and usual adjunct of the
| cattle herd is q drove of hogs, to whom the
| surplus N Tx is given. Both hogs and cat
Ia require csrn for tattening purposes, ans
it Is es inated that in Fillmore the largest
| daIryir 6 county in the state, So COO acres
were Ll.nted in corn ] st year, ss AGAR st
81, 600 acres in 1882, the Litter acre sge bell g
] rgely in exc IS Of that Of former years
| Tne creau,eries do not furnish butter +
/ home CONSUMPTION, but send their product
| to the east, or to large home cities Ike 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, 1873 pounds. Cheese facto-
| fastening calves and hogs.
From advance shee's of Commissioner
Mslnres' statistics for 1883 it appears that
| there ere PAT 600, COWS in the state of Min,
nesota in 1888. butter made in 1882,
| amounted to IL, 1856 7oS.
The number OF pounds of butter for 1898
is not given or estimated, but at II III
pounds to the COW, the yield of 1882, the
| product for the present year will reach H.,
747,9l4. or more than GO ,Goo ia excess of
| the product of 1882. COui led with the
above table is Column in which it is sta
| ted that there are thirty three cheese fac.
! tories in the state,
| With the growth of the dairy interest
came the interesting query 'What is the
most prof taole breed # cattle for Mime
sota's uses?" The question has not been
fully settled, since the years of trial have as
| yet been so few. Mary farmers have spent
large sums for pure bred bu l., and the i'm
provement in quality il one of the
most notable outgrowhs of the las.
| few years. Shorthorns, Holsteins, Polled
| A gus ana Jerseys have been brought in,
| and at the Mankato convention last year
| Messrs. McGiincy of Minnesota and Curtis
OF New Y~rk were unqualified in their ad-
vocacy of the Jerseys as cream givers. They
| might have quoted the remark of Penn
| sylvania owner of a small-framed breed.
who averreo "You can pick up your Jersey
COW and carry her when you want her, bat
set her down and milk her aud 1t will tire
you to carry awsy 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-
tons of the owners probably governing their
| judgment to some extent.
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