The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-02-21

in the Creamery Gathering System. = u IS
by the. term Of shortage, as used by creamery
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
I'D H. rules ss9d fa{ Fsd m sbarf5 Il
reported in Iowa for, the year 1882 was 4 per
| cent on all the butter manufactured by the
cream gathering creameries running on the
+ gauge, where Ehave No doubt that it was fully
| as much for 1888 in Minnesota. What is tho
remedy for the creamey man? know of none
patron except the test clurn plan. He conclu-
ded by saying that unless the manufacturing
shortage shall be done away, crean1-buying is
failure in Minnesota.
W. B. Straight did not wish the idea to go
abroad that the shrinkage was due to difference
in cream instead of the amount of milk turned
into cream. Mr.. johnson of Illinois asked for
instructions how to secure uniform skimming
Mr.. McKinstry answered.:
By having milk SKINNED daily by same per-
cream for his creamery every second or third
day. Used a preseryative, which the gatherer
adds as he procures the cream, which holds
back the cream from mature acidity. Ripen-
ing cream thickens as it grows sour; sweet
cream is thin. Butter from small churnings
from larger churnings. I open my cream jars
and stir cream frequently and leave exposed to
air; for the reason that the cream takes up oxy-
gen, which affords 9 finer flavor to tho butter:
President Hoard stated that:
One of the secrets of scream shortage" was
the effect of the chun on cream. In the sea-
son of succulent food the churn receives it's
due proportion of buttor. By feeding roots,
ensi1age and succulent food the churn will do
it's work with profit. Farmers who allow their
1,,rx4
nying to the churn the proper returns its should
receive.
President Hoard then read prize essay read
by D. W. Garter, at tho Wisconsin Dairymen's
association. The essay was replete with valu-
able suggestions.
H. B. Gurler, Of Dc Kalb, ILL.,, then read
paper on the COW, the calf, and the pig.
These animals naturally go together in dairy
ing. Have raised them in order Of their i'm
portance in the new. parts of the West In
illinois would read COW, pig, calf. The COW,
if properly cared for is the most proitab BILE ami
NAL on the farm When commenced dairying
my COWS would average only $50 pounds Of
butter annually. I began to test milk I
learned that the COW which produced forty
pounds of milk Per qlay produced one Pounaa
pounds per day produced more butter than the
COW that gave 40 pounds of milk per day I
sold off Improbable cows and found [ had
some that would not pay for the feed they
consumed; others would pay $50 after
paying for their feed Changed from sum
increased butter yield in few years from $50
to 1865 pounds per COW, and the profit above
price OF feed was an incHasc from SIS to $45
per COW, an increase of 2GO per cent. For the
year ending Jan. ], 1855, received s.: % worth
of milk for every dollars worth of feed con-
sumed by my COWS. We have one patron that
we paid $500 per COW last year. One patron
kept an accurate account Of feed consumed by
his dairy of fourteen cows last month For
grain feed, $42; hay, $2l1o: Total cost feed,
worth 81. so per LOO pounds OF $3.50, leaving
a surplus after paying feed of $3.50. Have
checked abortion by the use of bone meal fed
to the COWS with their salt I feed one-fourtl
bone meal, three-fourths salt. The calf is an
important animal with the dairyman, but there
is little profit in growing steer.
In the pig is little profit I give the follow
ing comparison of my most successful pig
feeding with that of my most successful calf
feeding:
Feb %, 1881, two grade Durham calves about
five months DID, weighed 1872 pounds; March LIST
they weighed 767 pounds, a gain Of IS pounds
in seven days; gain each per day, IL pounds
They were fed as follows:
280 lbs skim milk at 25c. .................$ 70
a lbs corn meal. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 70
70 lbs of hay at $1Oper ton. ............... IS
Cost per pound 40 cents, to compare with
the following:
Junes 1873, pigs weighed 327 pounds
June 81, 4::3 pounds, gain In thirteen days Of
96 pounds They were fed 40 pounds of skim
milk and III pounds of corn. Crediting the
milk with IL pounds per 100 would make ~
1-2 pounds increase from 80 pounds of shelled
corn. Figuring the milk at % cents per 100
pounds and the corn at 80 cents per bushel
(market price at tine) the pork cost 2-27-1OO
cents per pound.
In the evening it is estimated that sixteen
hundred people were in the opera house The
exercises consisted of an excellent musical pro-
gramme and spriShtly, well written, prac-
Teal paper by Mrs. Curries embodying her ex-
perience in butter making. But my own ex-
perience is to furnish good warm stable,
warm their milk, feed q little bran and shorts
or oats every day, and have a rack and keep it
filled with Your sweetest and best hay, keep
their stables clean, and they will have nothing
! to do but grow.
With regard to feeding mich COWS, I consid-
sez 1nixed bran and shorts, corn, pulnpkins,and
raang ok good sweet hay, as the best class Of
dom tttlle stand around in the yard,
aarihe \ storms md baisssreis: :, -'>,''.
On Fhlfsday the.1 4th the FIRST business was
The the r sIsbg q paper AE . Hon W.T. H.
Hs saM Prof. b Stewart fhe best authority on or
cattle feeding, gives as standard ration for
mich COWS, daily, "A pounds Of dry organic
subseAnce, and this ration should consist of 2
IL pounds albuminoids, Y ~ pounds of car
honateaApd 40zfo0 fat. Thirty pounds of hay
win produce the dry substance, but will be
deficient in albuminoids and fat; 30 pounds Of
hay at $40 per ton costs Is cents; much bet
ter ration, consisting of corn fodder 10pounds,
hay pounds, bran pounds, malt sprouts 5
pounds, corn meal 3 pounds, and oil meal 9
lo x,-Sn %1,o,,t sc
worth more as feed, and three times more for
manureal value. Modern dairymen are learn
ing that COWS coming into milk in the fall or
carly winter bring in much larger revenue
than summer dairying.
The reading of this paper was followed by a
spirited and vigorous discussion of the sub
ject and rapid fire of questions and re-
plies.
The second paper was that of O. C. Grigg of
Camden, Mimi, on the subject Minnesota as a
dairy state. This is emphatically grass
It was the home of the buffalo long before the
white men settled here. The writer thought
Minnesota an cat state and thought oats the
best crop farmers could raise. He mentioned
the erroneous idea that costly barns are re-
There is no necessity for an expensive
buildings stable with good roof, and sides
will battened on inside, and well
banked, viii keep stock comfortably through
our winters When the thermometer showed
the temperature to be SO deg. below zero out
side, the speaker found the temperature inside
his stable "a deg above Light and ventila-
ton ere important requisites Windows should
be on the south and east. Ventilators should
be placed in the roof, SO foul air may escape.
Plenty of good water should be within conven-
lent distance Of the barn. Another objection is
that the feeding season in this state is too long.
This is mistake Make the cattle debtors for
abundant feed and creditors for plenty of good
butter and cheese furnished in return. The
key to success is good feeding A Minnesota
winter gives wonderful appetite and q faculty
to convert food into milk
The committee appointed by Judge Blanch-
ard to report an organization of butter board
Of trade to be located at Mankato, to be emit
tied the Butter Board of Southwestern Mime
sofa was announced to be composed as follows;
Col Clark W. Thompson, Faribault county,
MINI; 2. B: Clark, Chippewa county, Mimi:
C. E. Marvin, Olmsted county, Mimi. E. G.
Huntington, Cottonwood, county, MINI. J. G.
Noe, Blue Earth county, MINI. Recess.
G. r. Beach followed with paper on the
subject "Is Dairying a Better Business for
Farmer of a New Country Than Grain Rails
ing?" The speaker began by contrasting the
farmers of Wisconsin under the wheat r,ising
system with that they now enjoy in the bust
ness of dairying. The dairying is more Ger
tain business than grain growing. One objec-
ton to grain growing is that profits arc nearly,
if not entirely, consumed in shipping and plac-