The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07
NORTHWESTERN DAIRYMEN.
Proceedings OF the Convention or
the Northwestern Dairymen's
Association at Mankato,
Minnesota
Synopsis Of Addresses and Other Inpor-
tant Information for Farmers.

| met al MALkaIO, Mlnu, On AutcNldy O'SA"AC
After music by the band Hon. NJ J. Severance
Judge Of the District Court eloquentlJ
welcomed the delegates in behalf Of Mankato,
extending the hospitality of the citizens. VIZ
welcomed them because they sought the applI-
cation of an intelligent system embracing the
observation of many states, to give a new i'm
pulse to one department of agriculture the
great foundation stone that lies at the very
base of all American industries and all endur-
ing prosperity. When the generous soil OF
America, either from a misconception OF Its
capacities, the true method of its development
or climatic catastrophe, refuses to respond to
tic toll of the husbandmen, every FURNISHED
spindle must cease to hum; every hammer
must rest cold on it's anvil, and the white sails
of will mildew on the shores of
| every ocean.
The secretary, r. P. McGIincy made an APP
propriato reply, giving statistics showing the
importance of the dangling business. He said
| that a man who owns 100 acres in Minnesota
has a competence, and a man who fails to sue
coed on this is probably a spoiled lawyer or
clergyman. If you want to succeed hold on to
your young stock. In order to acquirea repu-
tatiOn you must improve stock as horse-men
do. If Minnesota farmers will feed as liberal
ly as in Wisconsin and Illinois it will greatly
improve stock. Two thousand car loads Of
bran and shorts were shipped from Minneapo-
lis last year to feed Illinois cattle. Do bust
ness as carefully as thinkers and railroad men
do theirs, and on as careful business princi-
Piles, and you will speedily reach success.
President w. D. Hoard of Fort Atkinson,
Wis, enlivered his annual address.
The address begins with a reference to the
growing importance of agriculture and the
wondrous progress made therein of late. The
demand of the times is imperative for larger
Drained farmers. The necessity of employing
the mind as we'll as the hand in agricultural
operations was dwelt upon. The speaker then
said; The season of 1888 has proved a fairly
prosperous one for dairymen. Through the
extension Of the gathered cream system, very
many new communities are brought into line
and the milk of thousands of cows rescued from
an ignominious fate. There is q large class of
farmers that view all this with alarm. They
have been waiting ten years for the dairy bus
mess to fail. They have been fearful all the
time that the business would be Overdone, for
getting that if every man in the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddenly be-
come a skillful dairyman, it would not add one
COW to the present number. Skillful care and
management would no doubt increase the pro-
~ftableness of every COW brought under such
an influence. 1t is about time the honest milk
was rescued from the Pogram makers
and Bascom vendors at crossroads,
and for the profit of the
country given a fair show for what there is in
it. But there will yet remain ignorance and
slovenliness enough in the land for a long time
to give intelligence all the advantage it deserves.
The only phase Of the diary business that is
over-done, and that continually, is the making
of poor butter and cheese. You have seen for
the last eighteen years a steady appreciation of
the value of our dairy goods. There is a prin-
ciple in this, gentlemen. 1t teaches that our
only salvation lies in upholding ard increasing
the standard Of excellence. Common farm but
ter has the same old look, the same smell, the
same abused, banged and disheartened appear
ance that it had twenty years ago, and it brings
about the same price. Skim cheese is the same
fraud on human digestion that it ever was
has the same discouraging effect on consump-
ton and depressing effect on price. 1t FONTS
the same old moral that it ever aid "What
God hath joined together let no man put asun-
DER The makers of fine goods need have no
fears of the future,
PRODUCTION FOR 1865.
1t is a curious and instructive fact as shown
bv the last census. that the ratio of increase In
cows is considerably less than that OF popula-
ton. This may account in a measure for the
fact that the demand for dairy products has
been for a number of years greater than the
supply. The same fact affords also a good
guarantee of the future stability OF business,
providing that bogus compounds are not al
lowed to usurp the place of the honest product
of the cow. Left to a natural condition of
things the dairyman need have no fears g. the
lack of a remuherative market IN the trture,
He should remember, however, that If he al
lows himself to be driven from the field, either
through his supineness, or lack of conformity
to the market demand for excellence, he does
not deserve any better fate. In 1880 the State
of Minnesota contained 275,545 cows. Her In
| crease for The ten years previous had been of
| the rate of II Ito per cent annually. Measured
by the same rate of increase the state would
have in 1888 375,567 COWS. AL
lowing that TIE product of each COW was worth
| $35, the gross product would reach the sum of
| $13,144,S4a Iowa contained In 1885, SJ4,l is,
cows. Her annual percentage Of increase fol-
the previous decade had been Is lilo per cent.
This ratio would give the State in 1883 ], 1S9, IS.
COWS, whose earnings at $50 each would reach
the sum of $4i $3.50. Illinois contained II
1880 605, 9I3 COWS. The annual percentage ol
increase had been only31-2per cent. Applying
this ratio she would have in 1883 $50, S33 COWS
whose average earnings would amount to $3&2,
460, 1855. Wisconsin contained in 1850 1885,
cows. Her annual percentage Of increase hat
been 51-2 per cent, which ratio applied FOL
1883 would give her 557 $40 At s35 each thci
earnings would represent Sf9,505, $50. Th'
gross earnings Of al the cows of these fou
northwestern states for 1888, reaches the enor
nous sum Of $107, SS5 TO. BY this 1t can readi
ly be seen, gentlemen, that the interest yol
represent has reached a magnitude that call
for the very wisest administration. The tim
has come when SO great an interest should re
ceive all the aid that special education can give
Futher, il should be fostcred and protected b
the legislation OF these states.
Al general survey Of the question disclose
NOS only much that encourages us, but ais
very many mistakes. Ii seems to be q yer
difficult task 10 reach q large proportion Of til
milk producers Of the northwest and get thei
TO adopt the standard ideas OF the day in dairy
ing. They arc not dairymen; they have br
little real pride in the business, and what
worse, they will expend neither money nor tin