The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-20
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BUTTER AND CHEESE.

BUTTER AND CHEESE.
Abstract Of the Proceedings OF the
q Annual Meeting OF the Mime.
/ gotta Butter aud Cheese ASCOT.
:. ation-Addresses and Discus go
ID siOns. g
The third annual meeting of the Mime
sots Butter and Cheese association was held
at Austin, Mower q unity. The attendance
was large, and the proceedings during three
days session were of considerable interest
TO farmers, and especially to dalrymen.
President G. E. Marvin of Rochester pre-
sided.
An address of Welcome was made by
Rev. E. R. Lathrop of Austin, and re-
Spouse by G. A. Houston OF Iowa, who at
tended the first Minnesota 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 com forts, Improvements and
conyeniences of farm life there. We be-
lieve that Southern Minnesota, which lies
in the great dairy belt of this grand coun-
try, is to be lifted up into great prosperity
by more attention to this great interest.
In five years more the change from whe
to dairying will be wonderfully appar'
enl."
President Marvin delivered an annual ad-
dress. He said the growth of this industry
during the past few years is marvs lous. Sin.
gle counties in our State that few years
since only made from $4,000 to 100000
pounds of butter and cheese, annually have
increased under its creamery and factory
system to 100000, and in some cases to
more than 100000 pounds year. This
has porportionately increased the amount of
beef, pork, poDl ry and eggs produced as
these products ways increase in the same
ratio with butter and cheese. From 3 repu-
mon grades Of butter and cheese, the pro-
duct At the Northern dairy has so improved
that il ID mighty conrlimented and sought
after in all the leadiug markets because of
its superior body, texture a.d flavor.
The solution Os the OleOmargarine or ad-
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 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 tn. Y 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 Olmsted 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
dustry, peace, and culture. Olmsted coun-
ty in four years has doubl I'd her number of
cows also of sheep. and quadru! led her,
number of hogs; and never, with two ex.
ceplions, raised as much wheat as this year.
Rochester stores keep har6lj any book &C.
COUNTS $4,000 month is paid for Olmsted
county creanl, and three farm mortgages are
now paid off where one is put on. Four
teen Olnsted county men have gone to
Europe this year to buy stock:
A large volume OF statistics were intro
tSuoed to which brief reference may be
made.
The value OF this years butter product
in Minnesota, at an average valuation of 80
cents per pound, will exceed SIS, 800, 600, and
that OF last year was lose to IS, COO. In
1880 there wasn't single creamery in the
stste worthy the Dame and the one erected
at Spring Valley in 1881 was much COM
mented upon. To-day there are seventy
sizsble creameries or butter factories, and
every month. The success of farmers in
Northern Iowa. in raising milch cows and
selling the product, stimulated Interest 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 and
central northern portions of Minnesota are
slso beginning to foil ow the example of the
more southe'ly parts, AID good judges pre-
dict that within IN + the o, next next
p product in Minnesota will exceed ten
millions of doll ars. The methods employed
have baen described frequently. A cream
cry is built in a town or smsll city in the
center OF good grazing country. Farmers
with mich COWS are supplied with cans of
such diameter that an inch of cream there
in will make q pound of butter, and are paid
by the inch, the price ranging from nine
teen to twenty. five cents, though the latter
is unusual and regarded very high. The
receive more for the cream when scld i'll
this way than they could make if they man.
ufactufed it into butter and then sold 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 regular
agricultural pursuits. The steers were
raised for beef and enough OF the heifers are
make the business pay. As the creameries
ave the milk on the farms the calves don't
and usual adjunct of thu
cattle herd is drove of hogs, to whom the
surplus milk is given. Both hogs and cat.
,le require earn for fattenirg purposes, and
il is es mated that in Flllnore the largest
dairyir county in the state, Is, 900 acres
were planted in corn last year, as against
argely in EXCESS of that OF former years.
The creameries do not furnish butter fir
home consumption, but send their product
to the east, or to large home cities like 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, 186 pounds. Cheese facto-
ries take all the milk, leaving nothing for
fattenng chlves and hogs.
From advance sheets of Commissioner
NJ lmres' statist1cs for 1883 it appears that
there ere 247 900, COWS in the state of Min
nesota in 1883: butter made in 1882,
amounted to II, 736. 1888.
The number Of pounds of bntter for 1883
is not given or estimated, but at II 10
pounds to the COW, the yisll Of 1882, the
product for the present year VIII reach H.
747,954, or more thsn eO),C0O in excess Of
the product Of 1882. Coup led with the
above tabl, is column il which it is sta.
ted that there are thirty. three cheese 1ac-
tories i'll the state,
With the growth of the dairy interest
came the interesting query "What is the
most profitable breed If cattle for Mime
sota's uses?" The question has not been
fully settled, since the years of trial have as
yet been so few. Macy farmers have spent
large sums for pure bred bulls, and the inn
prOvement in quality is one Of the
most notable outgrow.hs of the las:
few years. Shorthorns. Holsteins. Polled
Al gus and Jerseys have been brought ID,
and at :he Mankato convention last year
of New Y TX were unqualified in their adj
vocacy of the Jerseys as cream givers. They
might have quoted the remark Of a Penn
sylvania owner of q small-framed 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 consti-
buttons, are regarded big hly as beef cattle,
and 6horthorns, Holsteins and other breeds
have their warm advocates the predelic-
lions of the owners probably governing their
Judgment to some extent.
Ike first paper read was ca Creameries
nd Thenobjsct, by F. A. Richardson Of
Aussin. 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 our cream and churn it at the right
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