The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-21
NORTHWESTERN DAIRYMEN.
Proceedings Of tho Convention Of
the Northwestern Dairymen's
Association at 16ankato,
Minnesota.
Synopsis Of Addresses and Other Impor-
tant Information for Farmers.

The Northwestern Dairymen's Association
met at Mankato, Mimi, on Tuesday evening
After music by the band Hon. N. j. Severance
Judge of tho District Court eloquent
welcomed the delegates in behalf Of Mankatc
extending the hospitality of the citizens W
welcomed them because they sought the appli
cation of an intelligent system embracing tn
observation of many states, to give a new i'm
pulse to one department of agriculture tn
great foundation stone that lies at the YER
base of oil American Industries and all endur
ing prosperity. When the generous soil O
America, either from misco1ccption of it
capacities the true method of its development
or climatic catastrophe, refuses to respond t,
the toll OF the husbandmcn, every FURNISHED
spindle must cease to hum: every hammer
must rest cold on its anvil, and the white sail
OF commerce will mildew on the shores o.
every ocean.
The secretary, R. P. McGlincy made m cp
propriate reply. giving statistics showing tho
Importance of the dangling business. He sale
that man who owns 100 acres in Minnesota
has competence, and man who fails to sue
coed on'this is probably spoiled lawyer O,
clergyman. If you want to succeed hold on te
your young stock. In order to acquire rep,,.
tation you must improve stock as horsc-mel
DO II Minnesota farmers will feed as liberal
~ as in Wisconsin and Illinois it will greatly
improve stock Two thousand car loads OF
bran and shorts We're shipped from Minneapo-
lis last year to feed Illinois cattle. Do bust
ness az carefully as thinkers and railroad men
do theirs, and on as careful business princi-
pies, and you will speedily reach success
President W. D. Hoard of Fort Atkinson
Wis, cnlivercd his annual address.
The address begins with a reference to the
growing importance of agriculture and the
wondrous progress made therein of late The
demand OF the times is imperative for larger
the mind as we'll as the hand in agricultural
operations was dwclt upon. The speaker then
said; Tho season of lSS; has proved a fairly
prosperous one for dairymen. Through the
extension of the gathered cream system, very
many new communities are brought into line
and the milk of thousands of COWS rescued from,
an lgnominiol,s fate. There is 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 overlonc, for
getting that if every man in the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddenly be-
come skillful dairyn.an, it would not add one
COW to the present number Skllful care and
management would no doubt increase the pro
ttataeness OF every COW brought under sucl,
an influence. 1t is about time the honest mill,
was rescued from the Pogram makers
ana Bascom vendors at crossroads,
ana an,,n+ ., TOR the profit Of the
country given 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
overdone, and that continually, is the making
OF poor butter and cheese. You have seen for
the last eighteen years steady appreciation of
the value of our dairy goods. There is prin-
oo1,p fl,,+
only salvation lies in upholding and increasing
the standard of excellence. Common 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
has the same discourasing effect on consump-
ton and depressing. effect on price. 1t points
the same old moral that it ever did. '7What
God hath Joined together let no man put asun-
DER Tho makers of fine goods need have no
Tears OF the future
PRODUCTION FOR 1883.
1t is curious and instructive fact as shown
by the last census, that the ratio of increase in
COWS IS considerably loss than that of popula-
ton. This may account in measure Tor the
fact that the demand for dairy products has
been for number OF years greater than the
supply. The same fact affords also a 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 a natural condition of
things the dairyman need have no fears of the
lack OF a remunerative market in the future.
tie should remember, however, that if lie al
lows himself to be driven from the field. either
through his suplncness, or lack of conformity
TO the market demand for excellence, he does
not deserve any better fate. In 1880 the State
Of Minnesota contained 275, SIS cows Her in
crease for the ten years previous had been at
the rate of II 10 per cent annually Measured
0y the same rate Of increase the state would
have in 1888 375,5G7 COWS. Al
lowing that the product of each COW was worth
s35, the gross product would reach the sum of
sl3, IA, SO. Iowa contained in 1850 So, 1877
cows. Her annual percentage of increase for
the previous decade had been Il Ito Der cent.
This ratio would give the State in 1888 ,1S0 So
COWS, whose earnings at $35 each would reach
the sum of Sal GA, $40. Illinois contained in
1880 SIS, 9l3 cows. The annual percentage of
this ratio she would have in 1888 ST, SIS cows'
whose average earnings would amount to So,
fS9, las. Wisconsin contained in 1880 AS. $50
COWS. Her annual percentage of increase had
been . IL per cent, which ratio applied for
lsS3 would give her $50, $40: At s:3'5 each their
gross earnings of al the cows ' Of these four u
northwestern states for 1886, reaches the enor-
nous sum of $107, SA1, 72O! By this it can raadi-
ly be seen, gentlemen, that the interest YOU
represent has reached a magnitude that calls
Tor the very wisest administration. The time
has come when so great an interest should re-
:e1ve 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 discloses
not only much that encourages us, but also
very many mistakes. 1t seems to be yerv
difficult task to reach large proportion of the
milk producers of the northwest and get them
to adopt the standard ideas Of the day in dairy
M They are not dairymen; they have but
worse, they will cxpend neither money nor time
10 learn better. Not one in a hundred of the
patrons of the cheese factories and creameries
Of the Northwest ever attend dairy conven-
ton. But very few of them read such papers
IS devote especial attention to this subject
They 90 not seem to care whether they succeed
well or ill at the business. The speaker then
:ontrastcd the methods employed by intelligent
lairymen and those of the unthnking mass
A very serious mistake was the lack of CO.
operation. After tribute to c. c. Fairlamb
the founder OF the gathered cream system, Mr.
d 2ard closed with thanks to the press for its
publications regarding the dairymen
COMMITTEES
President Hoard appointed the following
Butter and Cheese-Hiram Smith, sheboy
g,n Ealls, Wis; H. w. Hurtz, Elgin, ILL.,. f.
lwer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Nomination. D. w. Curtis, Fl. Atkinson.
Wis; J. B. Vosbury, Richmond, ILL.,: P. G.
Truman, Independence, Iowa; E. C. Hunting
ton Window, MINI. !; r. H. Rose, Mankato
Resolutions-C. F. Dexter, Chicago, Ill. C. W.
Thompson, Wells, MINI. J. G. Lombard, Chi
cago, Ill K. G. Judson, FarminGton, Mimi:
c. r. Beach, Whitewater, Wis
Ways and Means-A. p. McKinstry, Winne-
baSo City, Mimi; Lovejoy Johnson, Stillman
Valley, Ill. W. s. Green, Milford, WISCONSIN.
Dairy and Farm Implcments-A D. LIE Land.
Sheboygan Falls, Wis L. NJ. Potter, Ele Claire
ILL., &c. D. Holmes, Owatonna, MINI.
I. c. Curtis of Rocky Run, Wis, read
paper on the subject Of ':Butter Making by
private dairymcn."
His farm, twelve years ago. was very much
depleted and the speaker found himself at
that time, in debt by raising wheat He be-
gun to raise sheep, but did not make the bus
mess success, and finally was driven into
dairying. At first made fair butter and could
take premiums at home fairs, but when he
sent his butter to Milwaukee it did not com
mand the highest price. The chairman of
this convention was the individual whose val
liable advice enabled him to become a good
butter maker and successful dairyman. Mr.
Curtis spoke Of the difference between cream
cry and diary butter: The first is the product
Of factory with all necessary
improvements and appliances, and to this fact
he attributed its superiority In making but
ter one trouble lies in the conceit If tho ma ora