Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-17

degree OF excellence should ABOVE all
! things be sought for as, if there is varia-
ton in the quality of packages
produced by the same per-
son or factory, the product is
liable to be graded by those of the poorest
degree of quality. The good dairy pro-
duct. like the good man, suffers from be-
ing found in bad company. The producer
who is content with less degree of excel
lence than can be made from the material
at his command, has mistaken his vocation
and ought to quit US. The dairyman to
succeed must strive to meet all four of the
conditions named. To avoid shortage,
producers shauld weigh and record the
exact weight of the solid butter, weighing
the tub before and the package
after, anG request prompt reports from
the buyer. The difference between the
market value of the creamery and dairy
butter being at times out of all due pro-
portion, has excited a great amount of
comment, and has led to the belief that a
gigantic creamery ring had been formed to
control and rule the market. The farm
alone possesses all the possibilities for the
product of the most superior grade of but
ter. The dairyman alone can control every
circumstance necessary to the production
of the best that can be made, and it is
the known product Of certain herds
and dairies which, as a matter of
fact bring the fancy prices, the varying
quality and appearance of the products of
the thousand different dairies and the uni
form quality and appearance of all cream
cry butter must answer the question III
measure; while creamery butter can be
handled without the inspection of each
separate package, while each lot of dairy
butter must be tested. Each time it is
handled as sold. Again the purchaser in
buying creamery butter is most sure of
what he is to get when the producer is IN
known to him. For these and other
reasons is their variation
due, and as at times the
creamery product is sufficient to supply the
market demand or nearly so. The mis-
cellaneous daily article is a.drug on the
market. There is no reason why with
proper effort on the part of the dairymen
of from fifty to hundred COWS could not
arrange with commission merchants or
others to sell without throwing their sup
ply into the general market. The paper
was full of practical and valuable infor-
nation.
Following the paper read by Mr.. Curtis,
was very able paper on
MIXED FARMING,
for Minnesota, by VIM. B. Straight,
Mr.. Straight began with the
old adage mot to risk all your
eggs in one basket" He would say that
exclusive farming was just exactly doing
that which these who had been engaged in
exclusive wheat farming were doing.
Many of them had found their mistake to
their cost. He doubted if history would
establish the permanent success of special
farming. The instance of exclusive cot
ton raising had not proven successful, as
the bills paid for other commodities has
always eaten up their profits, much of
which products, like corn, bacon, ETC., they
might produce themselves. But
the worst feature about ex-
elusive farming was the abstraction
from the soil by the culture of any spe-
cial crop for succession of years of GER
tain qualities which soon exhaust and rem
der it worthless, and mixed agriculture
and rotation of crops tends to keep the
soil in its primitive state, or rather i'm
proves it for dairying and stock raising are
incorporated into the system. Mr.. Straight
advises the farmers of Minnesota to sell
all their hog and grain on the hoof or IN
butter and cheese. The paper was very
practical, and to the point, as touching
a vital point in the agricul-
tural history of the state. Mr..
Straight has come to Minnesota to engage
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embarking large amount of capital and
bringing to the business a large and ex-
tended experience. He is building four
creameries at present, AMI will no doubt
double the number before the close. of the
season.
Following the paper of Mr.. Straight Mr..
George Lawrence, of Waukesha, Wis, read
paper upon cream gathering and its ad-
vantages. Mr.. Lawrence said progress
was the order of the day IN all things. The
individual farm dairy has in a measure
been superseded by the cheese factories,
supplemented by the combined cheese
factories and creamery and this by the
creamery. While this plan has some dis
advantage it has its advantages. First, it
is the only place where the farmer is paid
for his milk according to its value. 1t en-
courages farmers to breed better COWS and
to feed and care for them better, and it
leaves skim milk to raise the calves; and
also it saves labor in the house or hauling
the milk to the factory. 1t saves peddling
your butter and receiving sure pay for it.
Mr.. Lawrence made clear and lucid ar
gument in favor of the process.
Mr.. A. G. Gregg, of Marshall, was then
introduced and gave his practical expert
ence in winter dairy farming, which was
quite interesting, and closed the afternoon
session.
The blizzard which struck here about II
a. M, is bowling with its usual vehemence
when it lets itself loose in this section.
Gov. Hubbard, who attempted to reach
home this afternoon returned with the
train, which was unable to proceed much
beyond the city limits. When interviewed
regarding the matter he remarked that he
was using his executive authority to raise
the blockade. Gen. Baker is at home
in the bosom of his family oblivious of the
condition of the elements while the mem
bers of the association, we'll housed and at
present being we'll fed, are not entirely
unhappy.
THE BANQUET.
At p. m. promptly the hall was filled,
and about 25O persons, guests of the city