River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-12-20
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RITTER AND CHEESE.

| 4D5tPaEA VI IilC AONSN
| Annual Meeting OF the Aiiho'
sofa Butter and Cheese Associ-
ation--Addresses ana DISCUS
sions.
erhs third annual meeting OF the MIME
20 g1ttsr and Cheese association was heli
:. Austin, Mower C unty. the at'ehuance
ace, and the proceedings during tnlee
Has -" asss,o :, were of consideranls interest,"
"' $50 an. especially to dalfyileh'
President C. E. MA, eVih %
sided. was made by
An address OF welcome and re-
Pew r r. Lathrop Of Austin, Who st.
suonse by C. A. Houston of Iowa, ;, $50
tended the first Minnesota Dairymea's
citation at Rochester TWO years ago. h.
| sgid: .sThat 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
conyeniences of farm life there. we De
lieye that Southern Minnesota, which lies
| in the great dairy belt of this grand couH-
try, is 10 be lifted up into great prosperity
by mere attention TO this great interest.
In five years more the change from Whe
| 10 dairying Will be wonderfully appar-
ept."
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 lev years
| since only made from $1,000 to 100000
pounds of butter and cheese, annually have
| increased under its creamery and factory
| system to 500, 600, and in some cases TO
more than 1905 600 pounds year. rms
has porportionately increased the amount of
! beef, porB, poul ry and eggs produced as
these pyoaHcis t ! ways increase IN the same
| ratio with butter and cheese. FROM b 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 mpltmented ana sought
after in eli the Leading markets because OF
its superior body, texture SD flavor.
| The solution oS the oleomargarlne or ad-
saltoratod product question it seems to me
| is TO produce sUous OF TIE inquest 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
| what they are and soon their demand will
| 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 Olnlsted county made
an address in which he spoke of the advan-
tages of paying increased attention to the
COW. These sre seen IN increased thrift, in
dustry, peace, and culture. Olmsted cOun-
ty in four years has dou0l ID her number of
COWS, also OF sheep. aud quadrul ed her
| number of hogs; and never, with two ex-
ceptioDs, raised as much wheat as this year.
| Rochester stores keep hardly any book &C,
counts; gS 900 month is paid for Olmsted
county cream and three farm mortgages are
row paid of 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
| t'uoed TO which brief reference may be
| made.
The value OF this years butter product
| in Minnesota, at an average valuation OF 30
cents per pound, viii exceed SIS, 300 600, and
that OF last year was lose to 10 O06 In
1880 there wasn't siggl9 creamery in the
| state worthy the pame and the one erected
| at Spring Valley in 1881 was much COM
mented upon. To-day there are seventy
| aizsble creamerie5 or butter factories. and
tseir number is beng augmented almost
| every month. The success of farmers in
| Northern Iowa, in raising milch cows and
selling the product stinGlated Interest in
the matter in Southern Minnesota and from
| the Manchester creamery in Iowa, estab-
lished no longer than 1873, scores have
| sprung up in both states. The middle and
central northern portions of Minnesota are
also beginning to follow the example OF the
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. Il cream
| cry is built in town or smsll city IN tue
center of good grazing country. Farmers
| with milch COWS are supplied with cans or
such diameter that an inch of cream there
in will make pound of butter, and are paid
by the inch, the price ranging from nlne-
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 coul / make if they man
ufactursd it into butter and thea sold 1t.
| 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 regular
| agricultural pursuits. The steers were
raised for beef and enough OF the heifers are
! kept to insure a large enough herd to
| make the business pay. AS the creameries
| ave the milk on the farms the cslves don't
have to be killed as formerly
and usual adjunct of the
cattle herd is drove of hogs, to whom the
surplus milk is given. Both hogs and cat
ll9 require Germ for fatteping purposes, and
il is e3 mated that in + llnore the largest
| dairyiI e county in the state, $4,000 acres
were planted in corn last year, agairsC
81, 600 acres i'll 1882, the hitter acreage being
| 4rgeIv in excess of that Of former years.
| The creameries do not furnish butter fer
home consumption, but send their product
| to the east or to large home cities Ike st.
| Paul and Minneapolis. The making Of
| cheese does rot meet with much favor, and
| the amount manufactured in the state IN
| 1882 was but 247, 1856 pounds Cheese fscto-
| ries take all the milk, leaving nothing for
| fattening calves and hogs.
| From advance shee;s ct Commissioner
! M.lmres' statistics for 1883 it appears that
| there were 247 O00 cows in the state of Min
nes0ta in 1888 hutter made il 1882
| amounted to IL, 1856 1888.
| The number OF pounds Of butter for 1888
| is not given or estimated, hut st II 8 10
| pounds to the COW, the yijli of 1882, the
| product for the present year VIII reach IL
| TAI, 954, Or more thsn G050CO in excess Of
| the product OF 1882 Coupled with the
| above tanl, is column il which it is sta
| ted that there are thirty-th three cheese fac
| tories in the state,
With the growth of the dairy interest
came the interesting query "What is the |
most profitable breed II cattle for Mime |
| sota's useS2" 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 |
| provement in quality Is one of the |
most notable uutgrowths of the las |
| few wears. Shorth0rns. HOlsteins. Polled |
| A. gus and Jerseys have been brought IN, |
! and at the Mankato convention last year |
| Messrs. McGlincy of Minnesota and Curtis !
| OF New Y0rk were unqualified in their Ad, |
vocacy of the Jerseys as cream givers. They |
| might have quoted the remark of Penn |
| sylvsniR owner of a small-frsmed breed, |
who averred You can PICK up your Jersey |
| COW and carry her when you want her, bat |
set her down and milk her and 1t will tire |
you to carry away the cream" The Polled |
Angus with large frames and sturdy cOnsh- |
tuti0Ds, are regarded highly as beef cattle, !
aud Shorthorns, Holsteins and other breeds |
have their warm advocates, the predelic- |
tons of the owners pTobaoly governing their |
judgment to some extent.
HE first paper read was on Creameries
and Their Object, by f. A. Richardson of |
Austin. He said:
These are varied and many.
First-it is TO make better butter larger In |
quantity and more uniform in quality. In |
proof of this we simply refer to the daily |
market quotations. Our whole attention is |
paid to this one branch of industry. New |
plans and methods are tried constantly. We |
watch oHr cream and churn it at the right |
time. We gain a uniformity and qusR-
tity that 200 or 300 patrons guessing at the |
condition of the cream cannot reach.
SecoDd-ln the wake Of better butter |
comes better breed of catls. A farmer is
no longer Satisfied to milk a cow that does |
not yield good flow OF rea Onably rich |