The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-11-27
bAIRYING IN MINNESOTA.
Eighth Annual Meeting Of the Minnesota


Dairymen's Association at Austin.
The fourth annual meeting of the Minnesota
Butter, Cheese and Dairy Stock association was
held at Austin, Mower county, last week. The
attendance was not very large, but the pro-
ceedings were Of interest to farmers
generally Mr. l. A. Pierce gave the
address Of welcome. Vice President O. G.
Gregg of Marshall, who presided responded
and proceeded to make the opening address of
Minnesota as a Dairy State" He especially
favored winter dairying. We must cease to
raise gram exclusively for sale in the markets,
and turn it into dairy products. We are yet to
produce the bulk of dairy products in this
products into sight Let us keep up with the
ever increasing demand for better dairy pro-
ducts, and arrange our darying 30 as to take
the best advantage of the great markets l
believe winter dairying to be one of the great
opportunities of prosperity to the Minnesota
farmer.
sour Dairy Markets" was the subject of dis
cussion Mr. A. p McKinstry, he said: Last
spring we organized the Mankato exchange,
and it has been great success We have sold
over 500, 600 worth of butter over the board,
and we have done better in that market than
we could do in New York. We have good buy
ers there near home getting quick remittances
and avoiding commissions and freights.
Our creamery products rate in New York, as
a rule, as "Western extra" AS soon as Min
nesota can demonstrate to other markets the
quality and quantity of our goods, buyers will
freely come in here and take all our products.
To consign to distant commission men is, to a
certain extent to place ourselves at their mer-
cy.
Mr.. T. Mower of Cedar Rapids believed the
nearest home market was the best market
1t is better to have butter merchants than
the present commission men. Men who own
the butter will work hard to geta good price
for it. Agents will never take the same trou-
BILE to get the best prices If men are butter
merchants the market will never get over
stocked. The best plan for q creamery is on
the cooperative principle. Most of the Elgn
creameries run on this plan. Itinterests every
patron. Every patron is q detective on his
neighbors to see that they sell good milk We
are agoing to have butter tests as to the purity
and value of milk to tell how much fat and
how much water there Is in milk.
Mr.. 0. G. Gregg, vice President, said: My
experience has been that home markets are
best. l say, don't consign to any city agent or
grocer, and leave it for him to sell at his dis
erection. Have some distinct understanding as
to limits of price before you ship. Ii you con-
sign at all. consign to a commission man.
can do better making my own sales in the great
markets than to have much to do with COM
mission men.
Secretary Rice said: 1t is only question
of time when the dairy markets
will be overstocked, unless we widen
in some way the consumption. In 1880 an av-
erage of an ounce of butter day was eaten IN
this country In Southern countries less but
ter is used than in the North. I think we can
make market IN the South. Mr.. Marvin a
few days ago sold $4,000 pounds of butter in
the New Orleans market We ought also to
pay more attention to the Western market
illinois is nearer to New York than Minnesota,
but there is great field to the west of us.
On the topic, ''the Dairy in Diver
sifed farming" Secretary Rice, said:
Exclusive dairying. is not good rule
be prominent and lead with it every line
of profitable farming Diversified farming is
the true rule On the oldest farm in Olmsted
county, where dairy has been introduced, more
wheat is raised per acre than ever. For sue
nent; you must build up permanent sod;
this takes several years. Changing pastures
every year is grave mistake. The speaker
then explained fully the method of making
permanent pastures. G. E. Marvin followed
on the Minnesota dairy and New Or
stand to-day with superior reputa-
ton. An important question is how
shall we show to the world what wonderfully
fine dairy goods Minnesota can produce? Five
years ago Minnesota was a wheat state and
everybody said dairying would not pay here.
But within four years our dairy interests have
grown over 300 per cent Thi1ty-six to forty
million pounds of dairy produce is Minnesota's
record this year with value of 10000, GOO.
Every creamery and dairyman in the state has
personal responsibility to advertise our i'm
mense dairy products. This is one of our
great resources.
Mr. A. ?. McKinstry read paper on "The
Progress of the Dairy Interest in Minnesota,
giving statistics which are familiar. If the re-
turns of butter made are approximately correct
the product in four years has increased four
fold, and the increase in the value of the
amount sold has at least doubled in price. The
increase in the number OF COWS used for diary
purposes has doubled in the same time, and
this has been done in the face of heavy de-
mand from the Montana rachmen for
heifers. He advocated winter dairy
ing, and said: I believe it is possible to
make our stables so warm and yet well ventil-
ated that they will not freeze, and so comfort
able and convenient that the cows could stay in
them for days without privation. l know by
experiment that there is difference of 20 per
cent between dairy so handled and one that
has to go outside the barn for water during
cold weather. / have found that COW will
drink forty pounds more water in day than a
steer of the same weight, and on nearly the
same feed, and that she will drink very much
more water if it be given to her two or three
times during the day IN the barn than if turned
loose in the yard to drink, and among
COWS the heaviest mixers are the
heaviest drinkers He said he had found
It is hard to ascertain just the amount and
the kind of food necessary and profitable as
ration for dairy cow Prices OF different
kinds of grain will govern and require changes,
but this year have adopted the following for
mula for dairy of twenty-five in milk: 15O
lbs bran, 100 lbs ground oats, LOO lbs corn
meal, 50 lbs oil meal This, mixed together,
will give about thirteen quarts to each cow per
day, and with oats at 16 cents, corn % cents,
bran 49, and oil meal 1923, will cost not far
from ten cents per day for each cow, and cow
reasonably fresh in milk that will not make q
pound of putter per day, will not pay for her
Secretary Rice said cream at II cents to-day
is good deal better than wheat at d cents l
have farm of 800 acres in Olmstead county,
100 of which is properly my stock farm Dur
ing the past twelve months have MIXED IL
cows, s of them heifers, II half grade Jerseys
and sold the cream at the Rochester creamery.
The cream alone has paid all the. expenses OF
running the whole $40 acres and something
over. These expenses include the harvesting,
threshing and binding of 40 acres OF wheat
which is left as clear profit
Vice President o. G. Gregg of Marshall runs
a wintar dairy. He will milk thirty cows this
winter; COWS are fresh in the fall. The grain
raised in summer on the farm is ground ana
fed to these cows during the winter months,
and thus converted into fresh butter for win
ter use. The calves are raised in the winter
most successfully.
The peculiar benefits Of this method are
summed up as follows:
First-Butter made when butter brings good
price.
Second-Winter weather is favorable to cows
in milk, and to the keeping and making OF
dairy products.
Third-Calves are raised when time can be
given to them, and are at an age to be turned
out to grass when spring comes.
Fourth-The laborers Of the farmers are
Rcr hn
increased returns is able to pay an increase of
wages over the usual yearly amount.
Ffth-By this continual labor employed the
manure of the farm can be certainly spread
upon the fields and the general farm work be
better DONE
the COWS after this manner and making sale OF
the butter as o grain product greatly increases