St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-15
OUR DAIRY INTERESTS.
The Profits and Advantages Which
the Farmers Can Sc
cure by Stock
Raising.
Election Of Officers and Pleasant
Social Conclu7
sion.
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Especial telegram to the Globe1
MANKATo, Feb. 1.-THE morning session
was opened by a paper from Mr.. o. C. Gregg,
of Camden Mimi, on the topic of ''Minne-
sofa as Dairy State.' Mr.. Gregg said that
he came as farmer from country farm
and would speak from his own experience of
twelve years. Minnesota was natural
dairy state, first because it was grass state
Wild grasses grew in abundance and most
luxuriantly. Minnesota is an oat state 1t is
the best crop for the sod for the first crop
that can be found. Barley and rye are nat
ural and good crops, and although we are
out of the natural corn belt and must select
our seed and choose our time for planting
with greet care, yet we are not any more apt
to have a recurrence of an 1888 failure than
We are to have a cyclone repeated Mime
sofa is a healthy state. If disease among
cattle was discovered it could be generally
if not always, traced to the negl'-
gence of the owner. The butchers could
testify to the healthy livers of Minnesota stock.
The extreme rigor of Minnesota winters had
been urged as reason why dairying was not
| likely to be success in Minnesota. He had
had no trouble in this respect ALI that was
necessary was warm stable, which could be
easily secured. There were four requisites.
| A good roof, pine board sides, battened on
the inside-mortared above the plates, and
well banked at the base. 1t should be well
lighted with windows south and east, and be
well ventilated.
Now he proposed to turn the cold
| of our Minnesota winters into
account for dairying purposes. 1t gives the
! fIo,,
sumed food and water in considerable guam
titles they would not produce milk in large
| quantities. All would agree that winter was
the best season for dairying The cold killed
the flies and other insects which are such
drawback to summer dairying. Then, too,
| in the winter butter can be more safely and
cheaply transported. He had found winter
dairying much more successful.
| Mr. Gregg was questioned with great de-
| gree Of interest by a number of practical
farmers, and gave minute description of
his home stable and the way he cared for his
COWS.
The second paper was read by the Hon.
Hiram Smith, of Sheboygan Falls, Wis, ex-
president of the Northwestern Dairymen's
association, upon the topic that ''Prescnt and
future success in dairying consists in lessen
ing the cost of the production of milk, butter
and cheese.p
After very interesting account of how
dairying should be done he said:
To sum up the whole matter 1t resolves
| itself into this proposition, that farm that
will support forty COWS, needlessly exposed
to out door storms and indoor cold, would
with the same feed in warm stables and pro-
tected from storms without, be ample to feed
forty-fve cows If the average receipts from
such cows annually should only be $35 per
COW, the five additional COWS would make
$175 annually. If this same farm will sup
port forty-fve cows, mainly on pasture grass,
hay, corn fodder and straw, it would if
part of the pasture and part of the
meadow were devoted to fodder corn.
! and field corn, and fed to the cows, together
with the purchase of twenty-five tons of bran
and five tons of oil meal, costing about 1878,
would amply support fifty cows and at the
same time increase the production of
milk, not less than $40 per COW, a net gain
on five additional cows of S175 and an addi-
tional gain on the production of SO per COW,
on fifty cows-by the proper mixture of feed
would amount to $780, together with $175
gained by the change would amount to to-
tai gain of $3.50, less the bran and oil meal
bought, 1875 or to net gain of
S415. This gain is obtained by the sub
stituting of warm stables for cold ones, and
by the proper mixture of feed. Exclusive Of
the cost of bran and oil meal bought in order
to make the proper mixture, add to this the
gain of winter over summer dairying as fol-
lows: A farm that will support fifty cows
that produce an average of $4,000 pounds of
milk per COW. while engaged in summer
dairying this milk would be worth not ex-
ceeding ninety cents per 100 pounds, on
225, 900 pounds of milk would amount to So
OPS, while the same farm, same cows and
same feed, if engaged in winter dairying,
would produce the same amount of milk,
worth not often less than S1.33 per 100
pounds or a total on 225,000 pounds
of milk of 50, 992, gain for winter dairying
over summer dairying of 1867, which added
to the former gain of S475, obtained from
warm stables and properly mixed feed, makes
a total gain for modern dairying over the old
system of 81, 442, a sum larger than the
original receipts from the same farm.
This is no fancy sketch or fine spun theory
made out of the wild guesses of amateurs,
but the statements above are actual transac-
tons in my own experience in the past
twelve years in bringing farm of 300 acres
that would hardly support forty COWS the year
round, until it now supports fifty-seven cows,
by adding liberal supply of bran and Oil
meal.
DAIRYMEN's ORGANIZATION FOR SOUTHERN
MINNESOTA.
number of gentlemen were drawn out
by the contents of this paper, and very
spirited and lively discussion ensued, which
consumed the rest of the morning hour.
After adjournment the dairymen of south
western Minnesota, organized a special
meeting, by the selection of Judge Burchard
of Marshall, Lyon county, as chairman, for
the purpose of the organization of a dairy
mems board of trade for southwestern Min
nesota, with its headquarters at Mankato.
Mr.. Noe, president of the Mankato city
board of trade, who introduced the subject
and who has been corresponding with dairy
men in this section, after a little discussion
and some remarks by Col. Mckinney, of the
Elgin board of trade, moved the following
resolution, which was enthusiastically adopt
ed:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this meet
ing that the time has now fully come for the
organization of butter board of trade a
Mankato.
| A resolution for the appointment of a com
mittee Of five on organization was adopted
afternoon Session.
The afternoon session was introduced by
the reading of paper by J. G. Lumbard, O
Chicago, entitled: Legislative Control of th,
, Railroads" This paper was apparently pre-
t pared from the railroad standpoint, and evi
IDENTIFY did not rest easily on the dairmen'
stomach. A resolution calling upon Gen