The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07
Hoard closed with thanks to the press for its
publications regarding the dairymen.
COMMITTEES.

| COMMITTEES, '
President Hoard appointed the following
/ committees:
Butter and Cheese-Hiram Smith, Sheboy-
gan Falls, Wis. II. W. Hurt2, Elgin, Ill j.
Mower, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Nominations d. w. Curtis, TT Atkinson,
Wis. J. B. Yoshury, Richmond, Ill; 7. G.
Truman, Independence, Iowa; E. g. Hunting
ton Window, MINI, r. II. Rose, Mankato.
Resolutions-C. +. Dexter, Chicago Ill. @. W.
Thompson, Wells, Mum. j, G, Lombard, Chi
cago, Ill. Il. G. JudsOn, Pennington, MINI.
c. r. Beach, Whitewater, Wis.
Ways and Means-A p. McXinstry, Winnie
bago City, MINI. Lovcioy Johnson, Stillman
Valley. III. w. S Green, Milford, Wisconsin.
Dairy and Farm Implements-A. D. lie Land,
Sheboygan Falls, Wis. l. M. Potter, Ele Claire
III. G. d. Holmes, Owatonna, Mimi.
I. c. Curtis of Rocky Run, Wis, read a
paper on the subject of Butter Making by
private dairymen."
His farm, twelve years ago, was very much
depleted and the speaker found himself at
that time, in debt by raising wheat He be-
gun to raise sheep, but did not make the bus
mess a success, and finally was driven into
dairying. AT first made fair butter and could
take premiums at home fairs, but when he
sent his butter to Milwaukee it did not COM
mand the highest price. The chairman of
this convention was the individual whose val
liable advice enabled him to become a good
butter maker and a successful dairyman. Mr..
GURUS SPOKE OF inc ulIItI6uCG DOW ecu CItdll-
cry and diary butter. The first is the product
of q factory with all necessary
improvements and appliances, and TO this fact
he attributed its superiority. In making but
ter one trouble lies III the cOnceit of the makers,
good cows well MIXED, well fed and kindly
cared for. Pure air and proper temperature
absolute are necessities for excellent butter.
Impurities absorbed in private farm dwellings
are injurious. The milk should be cooled to
sixty degrees in five hours, Milk heats quick
ly and cools slowly; II gals. milk
cooled from 80 to 90, lose one pint
One hundred pounds of milk contains one
pound more sugar than butter. Sweet cream
makes a good butter, but does not keep. To
give the granting quality a small degree of &C
cidlty is necessary; too much destroys II. Sol
idity is important in packing and neatness is
one of the best points to be attained. The
speaker recommended the use of Higgins salt.
Could see no advantage i'll sailing In brine.
Uses a little more than a pound of salt to sew
enteen pounds of butter. He (Curtis) takes
about one hour and a half to churn, work and
pack his butter Recommended cOloring but
ter. In cans set in water milk
cidity obtained afterward. Places water
around cans to height of mill Ghurns at six
ty-two degrees. He feeds his cons well, salts
stock three times a week; fences of bad water,
giving cows only such water as he would drink
himself. During drouth use corn fodder,
pumpkins, etc, never allowing the cows to
lose flesh. Does not try to obtain all there is
in Il COW in one year; keeps his COWS longer;
keeps his COWS up to regular quantity, because
when COWS once slacken up one cannot bring
them hack to original quantity.
H.. E. Hoard of Montevideo, Mimi, in a paper
on skim milk farming, compared wheat and
dairy farming. Showed the cost of raising
wheat ii upper Mississippi valley, and stated
that in his county about 600, 900 bushels of
wheat are raised annually, bringing in Chicago
about s500,000 1t costs $4,000 to send this
wheat to market, leaving about S1U0 net pro-
ceeds to each farmer. The speaker felt sure
the result would be much better if farmers
would turn their attention to dairying instead.
&. L, Dexter of Chicago followed with o paper
organizations for the Promotion of Special
Objects" with special reference to organizations
of the dairy interest.
Vice President ?. A. McKinstry of Winneba-
go City, Mimi, read a paper entitled Shortage
In the Creamery Gathering System"
By the term of shortage, as used by creamery
men, we mean that in buying a certain quality
of cream, which has been supposed to make a
given quantity of butter, and it fails to do so,
we say we are short on butter; or, in other
words, we bought cream enough to make so
many pounds Of butter, according to the stand
ard rules, and it failed to make it.
said the shortage
reported in Iowa for the vsar 1882 was 4 per
III vi III lll6 DlatltE mlilu1dEtOtCu w III
cream-gathering cr5ameries running on the
gauge, where / have no doubt that it was fully
as mue, for 1888 in Minnesota. What is the
remedy for the creamey man? i know of none
that can be adopted and deal justly with each
patron except the test churn plan he conclu-
ded by saying that unless the manufacturing
shortage shall be done away, cream-buying is
a~failure in Minnesota.
w. b. Straight did not wish the idea 10 go
abroad thSt the shrinkage was due to difference
in cream instead of the amour of milk turned
into cream. Nh. Johnson of Illinois asked for
instructions how to secure uniform Swimming.
MI, McKinstry answered:
BY having milk skinned daily by same per-
son and at same hour of day. He collected
cream for his creamery every second or third
day. Used a preservatiye, which the gatherer
adds as he procures the cream, which holds
back the cream from mature acidity. Ripen-
ing cream thiekens rs it grows sour; sweet
cream is thin. Butter from small churnings
does not ~granulate as well or as rapidly as that
from larger churnipgs. open m cream Jars
and cir cream frequently and leave exposed TO
air, for the reason thatthe cre&m takes up oxy-
gen, which affords a finer flavor to the butter.
President Hoard stated that:
One of the secrets of sscream shortage" was
the effect Of the churn on cream. In tho sea-
son of succnient food the churu receives it's
due proportion of buttor. BY feeding roots,
ensilage and succulent food the churn viii do.
its work with profit. Farmers who allow their
hay to ripen too much aud grow woody are de-
nyingt to the churn the proper returns its should
receive.
President Hoard then read a prize essay read
by ID. w. Garter, at the Wisconsin Dairymcn's
association. The essay was replete with valid
able suggestions.
II. d GurIer, or De Ealb, Ill, then read a
paper on the cow, the calf, and the pig
Those animals naturally go together in dairy
ing. Have raised them IN order of their mn
portance in the new parts Of the West, Ia
Illinois 7 would read COW, pig, calf. The COW,
If properly cared for is the most profitable ami
| NAL on the farm. WhenI commented dairying
nv B xould average only 80 pounds of
butter annually. 4 began to test milk. !
learned that the COW which produced forty
pounds of milk per day, produced one pound
Of butter per day, that tho COW giving 10