Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-22
NeRTHNEST TERN DllRYlIEl.
Proceedings Of the Convention Of
tho Northwestern Dairymen's
Association vt Mankato,
Minnesota. ss.#4
Synopsis Of Addresses and Other Impor-
tant Information for Farmers.

synppsis 81 Addresses ana Other 1mpor-
tant Information for Farmers.
The Northwestern Dairymen's Association
met at Mankato, Mimi. on Tuesday evening.
After music by the banl Hon M. J. Severance,
Judge Of the District Court eloauently
welcomed the delegates in behalf of MaEkato,
extending the hospitality of the citizens We
welcomed them because they sought the appli-
cation Of an intelligent system embracing the
observation OF many states, to give q 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 q misconception of it's
capacities, the true method of its development
or climatic catastrophe, refuses to respond to
the toll Of the husbandmen, every Furnished
spindle must cease to hum; every hammer
naust'rest cold on it's anvil and the white sails
Of commerce will mildew, on the shores of
every ocean .%.
The secretary, r. P. AIcGlinoy made an ap-
propriate reply. giving statistics showing the
Importance of the dangling business. He said
that man who owns 16O acres in Minnesota
has competence, and a man who fails to sue
coed on this is probably a spoiled lawyer or
clergyman. Hyou want to succeed hold on to
your young stock. In order to acquired repu-
tation you must improve stock as horse-rnen
do u Minnesota farmers will feed as liberal
" as in Wisconsin and Illinois lit 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-
pies, and you will speedily reach success
Sl1>>k ~
Wis, enlivered his annual address, "
The address begins with . 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 dwell upon. The speaker then
said; The season Of 1888 has proved fairly
prosperous one for dairynlen. Through the
extension OF the gathered cream system, very
many new communities are brought ic6o line
and the milk of thousands of COWS rescued from
an lgnOminlous fate. There is a 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 ovardone, for
getting that if every man in the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddenly be-
come sklllful clalrynlan, it would not add one
COW to the present number: Skillful care and
management would no doubt increase the pro-
htableness Of every COW brought under such
an Influence. 1t is about time tho honest milk
was rescued from the Pogram makers
and is or the vendors ppo Ct c hs
country given a fair show for what there is in
it. But there will yet remain ignorance and
slovenliness enough in the land for 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
h1lttnr nhanSn how fNy
the last eighteen years steady appreciation of
the value OF our dairy goods. There is a prin-
clple in. this, gentlemen. 1t teaches that our
only salvation lies in uphQlding and increasing
the standard of excellence. sCommon 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 It points
the same old moral that it ever did f7What
God hath joined together let no man put asun-
der" The makers of fine goods need have no
FEARS Of the future.
PRODUCTION FOR 1888
1t is curious and instructive fact as shown
by the last census, that the ratio re increase in
COWS is considerably less than That of popula-
ton. This may account in measure for the
fact that the demand for dairy products has
supply. The same fact affords also 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 natural condition of
things the dairyman need have no fears Of the
lack of a remunerative market in the future.
He should remember, however, that if he al
lows himself to be driven from the field, either
through his supineness, Or lack of conformity
70 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 at
the rate OF II LILO per cent annually Measured
by the same rate of increase the state would
have in 1888 375,567 cows. Al
lowing that the product of each COW was worth
,$35, the gross product would reach the sum of
$13, ,S45. Iowa contained in 1880 S54, 1877
COWS. Her annual percentage of increase for
the previous decade had been ID ITO per cent
This ratio would give the State in 1883 1S9, $50
cows, whose earnings at $35 each would reach
the sum of $41 ,646, $40. Illinois contained in
1850 e65;913 COWS. The annual percentage of
increase had been only 31-2per cent. Applying
this ratio she would have in 1883 $50 1888 COWS,
whose average earnings would amount to $32,-
4o9, $50. Wisconsin contained in 1880 AIS, $40
cows. Her annual percentage of increase had
been II per cent, which ratio applied for
earnings would represent $19,50 $50 The
gross earnings of all the COWS of these four
northwestern states for 1883, reaches the enor-
nous sum OSLO, Ss5, TO BY this it can readi-
~ be seen, gentlemen, that the interest you
represent has reached magnitude that calls
Tor the very,Wlsest administration. The time
has come when 80 great an interest should re-
celve all the aid that special education can give
,Futher, it should be fostered and protected by
the legislation of these states. - :
MISTAKES. -
A general survey of the question liscIoses