The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-28
BUTTER AND CHEESE.

sofa Butter and Cheese Assoct.
ation-Addresses and Discus.
sions.
The third annual meeting of the Mime.
sofa Butter and Cheese association was held
at Austin, Mower &, unit. The attendance
was large, and the proceedings during three
days session were of considerable interest
10 farmers, and espe,ielly to dsirymen,
President G. E. Marvin Of Rochester pre-.
sided.
An address of welcome was made by
Rev. E. L. Lsthrop of Austin, and q re.
Spouse by c. A. Houston OF Iowa, who at
tended the first Minnesota Dairymen's assO'
ciation at Rochester two years ago. He
said: THAT part of Iowa which had given
attention to stock raising and da,rying has
exceeded every other part in prosperity, as
Is seen in the mforts, Improvements and
lieve that Southern Minnesota, which lies
in the great dairy belt of this grand coun-
try, is to BIZ lifted up into great prosperity
by mere attention TO this great interest.
In five years more the change from whe
to dairying will be wonderfully sppar.
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 tsat q few years
since only made from $1,000 to 100. 600
pounds Of butter and cheese, annually have
increased under its creamery and factory
system to 500. 600, and in some cases to
more than 1000. 600 pounds a year. This
has porportiopately increased the amount OF
beef, pork, poul ry and eggs produced as
these products q ways increase in the same
ratio with butter and cheese. From Il repu-
tation Of manufacturing ONLY the most com
mon grades OF butter and cheese, tae 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 ad.
liberated product question it seems to me
is 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 fol
what they are, and soon their demand will
so diminish that factories must close fol
want of patronage. To successfully accom-.
p'ish this the patrons must sustain the
manufacturer and be willing that he should
realize a fair profit, which will enable him
to success uliy prosecute his business.
Secretary Rice of Olmsted county mada
all 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 fou years has doubl ID her number of
csws, also OF sheep. and quadrupl. ID her
number of hogs; and never, with two ex.
ceplions, raised as much wheat as this year.
Rochester stores keep hardly any book &C,
counts; So. 900 a month is paid for Olmsted
county cream, and three farm mortgages are
row paid oil where n is put on. Four
teen OF nsted county men baye gone to
Europe this year to buy stock.
A large volume Of statistics were intro.
dUoed 10 which brief reference may be
made.
the vslle OF this years butter prod0ct
in Minnesota, at an average valuation of 81
cents per pound, will exceed So, 500, 600, and
that OF last year was close TO IS. Geo. Ir
1850 there wasn't a single creamery in tbs
state worthy the pane and the n erected
ut Spring Valley in 1881 was much com
men'ed upon. To-day there are seventy
sizsble creameries or butter factories, end
taeir number is beng augmented almost
every month. The success of farmers ir
Narthern Iowa, in raising mich cows AnG
selling the product, stimulated iaterest 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 anC
central northern portions of Minnesota arr
also beginning to follow the example of the
more southe,ly parts, ard good judges pre-
dict that within the mex
decade the vslue of the annual fairy
product in Minnesota will exceed tel
millions Of dollars. The methods employed
have b9en described frequently. A cream
cry is built in a town Or smsll city in the
center Of Il good grazing country. Farmers
with milch cows are supplied with cans o.
such diameter that an inch of cream there.
in will make a pound of butter, and are paie
by the inch, the price ranging from nine
teen to twenty-five cents, though the lattel
is unusual and regarded very high. Thu
tanners generally acknowledge that they
this way than they could make if they man
ufactured it into butter and then sold it
The creameries have wagons and regular
routes from which the cream is gathered 81
often as needed. Few of the farmers hav'
any large herds, the object being to max
the dairy interest an adjunct to the regull
agricultural pursuits. The steers wcr
raised for beef and enough OF the heifers ar
kept to insure a large enough herd Il
make the business pay. AS the creamerie
lsavethe milk on the farms the calves dom
and a usual adjunct of til.
cattle herd is a drove of hogs, to whom the
surplus milk is given. Both hogs and cat
lie require corn for fattering purposes, ane
it is es mated that in Fillmore the largest
dairyirg county in the state, 65,0 900 acres
were planted in corn last year, as agairs
$1,000 acres in 1882, the Latter acreage being
largely in excess of that of former years
The creameries do not furnish butter fcl
home consumption, but send their produc
to the east, or to large home cities like St
Paul and Minneapolis. The making o.
cheese does rot meet with much favor, an6
the amount manufactured in the state in
1882 was but al, 1856 pounds. Cheese facto.
ries take all the milk, leaving nothing for
fattening cslves and hogs.
From advance sheets of Commissioner
Mslnres' statistics for 1883 it appears thai
there were 247, 900, cows in the state of Min.
nes0ta in 1888. hutter made in 1882,
amounted to II, 756, 78s.
The number of pounds of brtter for 1899
is not given or estimated, but at II s IL
pounds to the COW, the yiell of 1882, the
product for the present year will reach H..
the product of 1882. Coupled with the
above tabls is q column in which it is sta
ted that. there are thirty-three cheese fac.
tories i'll the state,
With the growth of the dairy interes,
came the interesting query What is the
most profitable breed Of cattle for Mime.
sota's uses?" The question has not beer
fully settled, since the years of trial nave as
yet been so few. Many farmers have spent
large sums for pure bred bulls, and the i'm.
provement in quality is one of the
most notable outgrowlhs of the las;
few years. shorthorns, Holsteins, Polled
argus Il Jerseys have been brought in
and at the Mankato convention last yea
Messrs. McGlincy 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 a Penn.
sylvania owner of a small-tramed breed
who averreo "Yoa can PICK up your JERSEY
Gov and carry her when you want her, but
set her down and milk her and 1t will tire
you to carry awsy The cream" The Polled
Angus with LARGE ira moo apG aturdy rouotj