The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-27
lAIRYING ii MINNESOTA.

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1ighth annual Meeting of!thv Minnesota
Dairymsn's Association At Austin.
l. 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. c.
Gregg of Marshall, who presided responded
and proceeded to make the opening address Of
the association on ssThe Advantages Of
| Minnesota as Dairy State" He especially
! favored winter dairying. We must cease to
raise grain exclusively for sale in the markets,
and turn it into dairy products. We are yett, to
produce the bulk of dairy products in this
! country We have only begun to push our
products into sight Let us keep up with the
| ever increasing demand for better dairy pro-
! ducts and arrange our darying 80 as to take
! believe winter dairying to be one Of the great
| opportunities of prosperity to the Minnesota
| farmer.
"Our Dairy Markets, - was the subject OF dis
spring We organized the Mankato exchange,
| and it has been great success. We have sold
| over 800, 900 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
| rule, as "Western extra" AS soon as Min
| nesota can demonstrate to other markets the
quality and gu antlty of our goods, buyers will
| freely come in here and take all our products.
| To consign to distant commission men is, to
certain extent, to place ourselves at their mer
| Mr. T. Mower of Cedar Rapids believed the
nearest home market was the best market.
| 1t is better to have butter merchants than
the butter will work hard to get a good price
| for it. Agents will never take the same trou-
| bic to get the best prices If men are butter
| merchants the market will never get over
| stocked The best plan for creamery is on
the cooperative principle. Most of the Elgin
creameries run on this plan 1t interests every
| patron. Every patron is a detective on his
neighbors to see that they sell good milk. We
arc 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.
MI. o. 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
| cretion Have some distinct understanding as
! to limits Of price before you ship. Ii you con-
| sign at all: consign to a commission man. I
can do better making my own sales in the great
markets than to have much to do with COM
| mission men.
Secretary Rice said It is only question
| will be overstocked, unless We widen
in some way the consumption In 1880 an
| erage Of an ounce of butter day was eaten in
this country. In Southern countries less but
ter is used than in the North 1 think we can
make market IN the South Mr.. Marvin
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.
sifed farming Secretary Rice, SAID:
Exclusive dairying lis not a good rule
for the average farmer. Dairying should
be prominent and lead with it every line
of profitable farming. Diversified farming is
the trne rule On the oldest farm in Olmsted
! county, where dairy has been introduced, moro
wheat is raised per acre than ever. For suc-
nent; you must build up a permanent sod;
this takes several years. Changing pastures
then explained fully the method of making
permanent pastures. c. E. Marvin followed
on the minnesota dairy and New Or
leans Exposition, Our dairy products
stand stand to-day with a superior reputa-
shall we show to the world what wonderfully
fine dairy goods Minnesota can produce? Five
years ago Minnesota was wheat state and
everybody said dairying would not pay here.
But within four years our dairy interests have
grown over 800 per cent. Thilty-six to forty
million pounds of dairy produce is Mnnesota's
record this year with a value Of slo,0oo, 600.
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
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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: 1 believe it is possible to
make our stables so warm and yet we'll 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 a 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
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 a
ration for dairy COW. Prices OF different
kinds Of grain will govern and require changes,
but this year have adopted the following for
mula Tor dairy of twenty-five in milk: $50
lbs bran, 100 lbs ground oats, 100 lbs corn
| - 1le> III. u>s %or
will give about thirteen quar- is to each COW per
day, and with oats at Is cents, corn 70 cents,
bran 80, and oil meal s25, will cost not far
from ten cents per day for each cow, and COW
reasonably fresh in milk that will not make
pound of Dutter per day, will not pay for her
keeping. Get her as fat as you can and let the
butcher have her. He spoke of the
lecting the cream. Will those that sell
us cream solve the question for us? If they
will do so, they will see larger price paid for
cream and happier creamery men.
| Secretary Rice said cream at II cents to-day
! is good deal better than wheat at As cents l
! have a farm of 800 acres in Olmstead county,
| 1GD of which is properly my stock farm. Dur
| ing the past twelve months l have MIXED II
| cows s of them heifcrs, II half-grade Jerseys
! and sold the cream at the Rochester creamery.
The cream alone has paid all the expenses OF
| running the whole 52O 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 0. c. 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 and
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
| III 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
given continuous work, and the farmer by the
increased returns is able to pay all increase of
wages over the usual yearly amount:
Fifth-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.
Sixth-Feeding the grain or grass products
the COWS after this manner and making sale OF
the butter as grain product greatly increases
the fertility of the farm.
Seventh-The making of winter butter will
equalize the price of dairy products, obvlatlng
the low prices of summer, and giving good
prices during the winter scarcity To-day only
| ten COWS out of 100 are fresh in winter.