The Mineral argus., 1884-03-06
NORTHWESTERN DAIRYMET.
Proceedings of the Convention of
the Northwestern Dairymen's
Association at Ma1kato,
Minnesota.
Synopsis of Addresses and Other Inpor-
tant Information for Farmers.

AAhC VI w. A-NAA
welcomed the delegates in behalf OF mankatoi
extending the hospitality of the citizens. We
welcomed thom because they sought the applI-
cation of an intelligent system embracing the
observation of many states, to give a 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 a misconception of It's
capacities, the true method of its development
or climatic catastrophe, refuses to respond to
tho toll of the husbandmon, every FURNISHED
spindle must cease to hum; every hammer
must rest cold on its anvil, and the white sails
Of viii mildew on tho shores OF
every ocean.
The secretary, r. p. McGlincy made an ap-
propriato reply, giving statistics showing the
importance Of the dangling business. He said
that a man who owns 100 acres in Minnesota
has a competence, and a \ man who fails to sue
coed ON this is probably a spoiled lawyer or
clergyman. If you want to succeed hold on to
your young stock. In order to acquire a repu-
tation You must improve stock as horse-men
do. If Minnesota farmers viii feed as liberal
" as in Wisconsin and Illinois it 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.
President w. d. Hoard of Fort Atkinson,
Wis, o%nlivered his annual address.
The address begins with a reference to the
growing importance Of agriculture and the
wondrous progress made therein of late. The
l 1----1 e H. A. e. --.-w-~4T-. F,. Torr,-s
Drained farmers. The necessity Of employing
the mind as well as the hand in agricultural
operations was dwelt upon. The speaker then
said; The season of 1888 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 ignominious fate. There is a large class of
farmers that Wow 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 overdone, for
getting that if every man in the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddenly be-
come a skillful dalryman, it would not add one
COW to the present number. SlillfuI care ald
management would no doubt increase the pro-
fitableness Of every COW brought under such
an influence. 1t IFS about time the honest milk
was rescued from the pogram makers
and Bascom vendors at crossroads,
and for the profit Of the
country given a fair show for what thore is in
ii. But there will vet remain ignorance and
sloveulinees enough in the landfor a long time
to give intelligence all the advantage it deserves.
The only phase of tho diary business that is
over-doue, and that continually, Is the making
of poor butter and cheese. You have seen for
the last eighteen years a steady appreciation of
the value of our dairy goods. There is q prin-
ciple in this, gentlemen. 1t teaches that our
only salvation lies in upholding and increasing
the standardo OF excellence; Common farm but
ter has the same old look, the same smell, the
same abused, banged and dishoartenCd appear
ance that it had twenty years ago, and it brings
about tho same price. Skim cheese is the same
fraud on human digestion that it ever was
has the same disc0uragiug effect on cOnsump-
ton and depressing effect on price. 1t points
the same old moral that it ever did. ''What
God hath joined together let 10 man put asun-
der" Tho makers Of fine goods need have no
fears Of the future.
DEDUCTION FOR 1888.
It is n curious and instructive fact as shown
by the last census, that tho ratio Of increase in
cows is considerably less than that of popula-
ton. This may account IN a measure for the
fact that the demand for dairy products has
been for a number of years greater than the
supply. The same fact affords also q 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 tho COW. Left to o natural condition OF
things the dairymau need have no fears Of the
lack of a rcmuneratiyo market IN the future.
He should remember however, that If he al
lows himself to be driven from the field, either
through his supinoness, or lack of conformity
to the market demand for excellence, he does
not deserve auy better fate. In 1850 the State
of Minnesota contained 2f5,545 Her IN
crease for the ten years previous had been at
the rate OF - lilo per cent annually. Measured
by the same rate of increase the state would
have in 1855 3i5,5G7 cows. Al
lowing that the product of each COW was worth
&35, the gross product would reach the sum OF
S~1314A.SA5. Iowa contained in 1889 opA,lS1
COWS. Her annual percentage Of increase for
the previous decade had been l3 40 per cent
This ratio would give the State in 1851 ,lS9,SS3
cows, whose earnings at $50 each would reach
the sum of S4i,ua5.STQ. Illinois contained in
1880 $50. 913 cow The annual percentage OF
increase had been only3l- - percent Applying
this ratio she would have IN 1883 9J5,S53 cows,
whose average earnings wopld amount to So,
4S9, LOS. Wisconsin contained IN 1850 4io,34U
cows. Her annual percentage OF increase had
been 51-2 per cent, which ratio applied for
1885 would give her yaf,3l0 At SD each their
earnings would represent Sl9,505.Sj1. The
gross earnings of all the cows OF these four
nous sum of $107, $50, 120 BY this il can readi-
" DO seen, gentlemen, that the interest YOU
represent mas reached a magnitude that calls
for the very wisest administration. The time
has come when 20 great an interest should re-
ceive al the aid that special education can give.
Futher, it should be foatered and protected 10y
the legislation Of these states.
MISTAKES.
A general survey OF the question d~iscloses
not only much that encourages us, but also
very many mistakes. 1t seems to be q very
difficult task 10 reach q large proportion of the
milk producers of the northwest and get them
to adopt the standard ideas of the day in dairy
ing. They are not dairvmen; they have but
little real pride in the business, aud what is
worse, they viii e~xpendneither money nor time
to learn better. Not one in a hundred of the
patrons of the cheese factories and creamerios
of the Northwest ever attend a dairy conven-