The Mineral argus., 1883-12-27
BUTTER AND CHEESE.

ation-Addresses and Discus.
sions.
The third annual meeting of the Mime
sota Bntter and Cheese association was htld
at Austin. Mower c, unity. The attendance
was large, and the proceedings during three
DAVIS session were of considerable interest
10 armers, and espe3ially to dairymen.
President @. E. Marvin Of Rochester pre-
sided.
An address of Welcome was made by
Rev. e. r. Lsthrop of Austin, and a re-
sponse by O.. A. Houston of Iowa, VINO at
tended the first Mimi sofa Dairymens asSo'
citation OF Rochester two years ago. he
said: That part of Iowa which had given
atterfion to stock raising and dairy1ng has
exceeded every other part 10 prosperity, as
ia seen in the co forts, inn royements and
convenience of farm life there. we pc
lieve that Southern Minnesota, which lies
in the great dairy belt of this grand coun-
try. is TO be lifted up into great prosperity
nv mere attention to this great interest.
In FIVE wears more the change from whe t
TO dsirving will be wonderfully appsr-
enU."
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 that a few years
since onIy made from $4,000 to 100000
pounds of butter and cheese, annually have
increased under its creamery and factory
system to 500. 900, and in some cases to
more than 100000 pounds a year. This
has porporiionately increased the o.
beef, pork, poUl ry and eggs produced as
these p5oaucts a ways increase in the same
ratio with butter and cheese. From n repu-
tation of manufacturing ONLY the most COM
mon grades of butter and cheese, the pro-
duet of the Northern dairy has so improved
that it is highly cOmplimeuted and sought
after in ali the leading mHrkets because OF
its superior body, texture AID flavor.
TIE solution % the olcOnlargarlne or ad-
liberated product question it seems 10 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 Cl )se FOX
want of patronage. To successfully accom-
plish this the patrons mUst sustain the
manufacturer and be willing that he should
realize Q fair profit, which will enable him
to success ully prosecute his business.
Secretory Rice of Olmsted county made
an address In which he spoke of the dvan.
tages of paying increased attention to the
COW. These are seen in increased thrift, in
dustrY, peace. and culture. Olmsted coun.
ty in four Es2SS has doubl4d her number of
cGws~aEfsO of sheSp. and quadruIlsd her
number of hogs; and never, with two ex-
cepiioDs, raised es much wheat as this year.
Rochester stores keep hardly any book &C.
counts; $8, 900 a mCnthNi is paid for Olmsted
county cream, and threeifarm mortgages are
now paid OIL where one is put on. Four
teen oil nsted county mon have gone to
Europe this year to buy stock.
A large volume of statistics were intro
Suoed to which bret reference may be
made.
Toe. value OF this years hutter product
in Mipnesota, at an average valuation OF 30
cents per pound, will exceed So, 300, coo, and
that OF last year was lose 10 So COO. In
1880 there wasn't o single creamery in the
state worthy the pane and the one erected
at Spring Valley in 1881 was much COM
mented upon. To-day there are seventy
sizsbIe creameries or butter factories. and
their BunIeer is beng augmented almost
every IN nth. The success OF farmers In
Northern Iowa, in raising milch cows and
selling the product, stimnl4ted interest in
the matter in Southern Minnesota and from
the Manchester creamery in Iowa., estab-
lished no longer than 1873, scores lave
sprung up in both states. The middle and
central northern portions of Minnesota are
slso beginning to follow the example of the
more southe ly parts, AID good judges pre-
dict that within the next
decade the vslue of the annual fairy
product In Minnesota will exceed ten
millions of doll irs. The methods employed
have baen described frequently. A cream
cry is built in a town or smsll city in the
center Of a good grazing country. Farmers
with mich COWS are supplied with cans OF
such diameter that an inch of cream there
in will make a 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
fahmers genertlly acknowledge that they
receive more for the cream when sold in
this way than they couli make If they man
ufactured il into butter and then sold it.
Tie creaueries have wagons and regular
r6~tes from which the cream is gathered as
often as needed. Few of the farmers have
any / srge 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 creamerie
lshveth milk on the farms the calves don't
have to be killed as formerly
and a usual adjunct of the
cattle herd is q drove of hogs, to whom the
surplus milk is given. Both hogs and cat
lie require earn Tor fattening purposes, and
il is es imated that in Fllmore the largest
dairyif & county in the state, IS, 900 acres
were planted in corn last year, as agaiust
1000 acres in 1882, the alter acres ge beiI g
largely IN EXCESS of that of former years.
Tn creauaeries DO not furnish butter 1 r
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 bnt 247, 186 pounds. Cheese facto-
ries take ell the milk, leaving nothing for