The Mineral argus., 1884-03-06

committees:
Butter and Cheese-Hiram Smith, Shcboy-
gan Falls, Wis. H. w. Hurtz, Elgin, Ill f.
Mower, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Nominations d. w. Curtis, Fit Atkinson,
Wis. J. B. Vosbury, Richmond, Ill; i. q.
Truman, Independence, Iowa; Il. G. Hunting
ton Window, MINI. r. IT, Rose, Mankato.
lesola.ions-C f. Dexter, ChieaSo,IL {. W.
Thompson, Wells. MINI J. g. Lombard, Chi
cago, III. r.. G. JudsJn, Pennington, Mimi
c. r. Beach, Whitewater, Wis.
WAYS and Means-A. p. McKinstry, Winnie
bagO CITY. MINI. LOvejoy Johnson, Stillman
Valley. Ill. w. S. Grean. Milford, Wisconsin.
Dairy and Farm Impiements-A d. lie Land,
Sheboygan Falls, Wis. L. NJ Potter, Ele Claire
III. q. ID. Holmes, Owatonua, MINI.
Z. c. Curtis of Rocky Run, Wis, read q
paper on the subject OF Butter Making by
private dairymel."
His farm, twelve years ago, was very much
depleted aud 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 g 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 70 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 q successful dairyman. Mr..
Curtis spoke of the difference between cream
cry and diary butter. Tho first is the product
of u factory with all necessary
improvements and appliances, and to this fact
he atributed it's superiority. In making but
ter one trouble lies in the c0nc1it of the makers,
good COWS well MIXED, well fed and kindly
cared for. Pure air and proper temperature
absolute are necessities for excellent butter.
Impurities absorbed in private farm dwellings
are injurious. Tho milk should be cooled to
sixty degrees in five hours. Milk heats quick
.ly and c0Ols slowly; - gals. milk
cooled from 30 to 90, lose one pint.
One hundred pounds of milk contains one
pound more sugar than butter. Sweet cream
makes q good butter. but does not keep. To
give the granting quality a small degree of ac-
cidity is necessary; too much destroys it, Sol
idity is important in packing and ueatness Is
one of the best points to be attained The
speaker recommended the use of Higgins salt.
Could see no advantage in sailing in brine.
Uses n little more than a pound of salt to sew
enteen pounds Of butter. He Curtis takes
about one hour and q half to churn, work and
pack his buttes Recommended coloring but
ter. In cans set in water milk
must be skinned sweet and ac-
cidity obtained afterward. Places water
around cam to height Of milk. Churns at six
ty-two degrees. He feeds his cows well, salts
stock three times a week fences off bad water,
giving COWS only such water as he would drink
himself. During drouth use corn fodder,
pumpkins, etc, never allowing TIA. cows to
lose flesh. Does rot try to obtain all there is
in q COW in one year: keeps his cows longer;
his cows up to regular quantity, because
when cows once slacken up one cannot bring
them back TO original quantity.
II. Z. Hoard of Monteyidco, Mimi, in a paper
on skim milk farming, compared wheat and
dairy farming. Showed the cost of raising
wheat in upper Mississippi valley, and stated
that in his county about 6J0, 600 bushel of
wheat are raised annually, bringing in Chicago
about S5O0.OC0. 1t costs $l5O,0U0 to send this
wheat to market, leaving about $40 net pro-
ceeds to each farmer. The speaker felt sure
thp Tol71lt Ev9TlG lac l1Flpb hotter If fpT1nnvg
would turn their attention to dairying instead.
i. Dexter Of Chicago followed with a paper
on Congratulations for the Promotion of Special
ithspecial reference TO organizations
Of me DAIRY interest
Vice PreEideat p. A. McKinstry OF Winncba-
50 City. Man, read q paper entitled Shortage
in the Creamery Gathering Syatlm"
BY The term OF shortage, asusod by creamery
men, We mean that in buying q certain quality
Of cream, which has been supposed to make q
quantity OF butter, and it fails to do so,
we say we are short on butter; or, IN other
words, we bought cream enough to make so
many pounds of butter, according tothe stand
ard rules, aud 1t failed to make it.
He said the shortage
reported in Iowa for the wear 1882 was 4 per
cent. on all the butter manufactured by the
cream-gathering creamerics running on the
where I have no doubt that 1t was fully
as much for 1855 in Minnesota. What is the
remedy for the creJmey man? know ofnone
can be adopted and deal justly with each
patron except the TEST churn plan. he conclu-
dod by aagi4g chat unless the manufacturing
shortage shall be done away, croam-buying is
a failure in Minnesota.
W. b. Straight did not wish the idea to go
abroad thst the shrinkage was due to difference
i'll cream instead of the amount of milk turned
into cream. Mr.. Johnson OF Illinois asked for
instructions how to secure uniform skimming.
Mr.. Mckinaty answered:
BY having milk skinned daily by same per-
son and at same hour OF day. lie collected
cream for his creamery every second or third
day. Used q prescrydtiyc, which the gatherer
adds as he p]rOcure5 the cream, which holds
back the cream from mature uCldltF. Iupen-
ing cream thickens as it grows sour; sweet
cream is thin. Butter from small churniHg5
does not granulate as well or as rapidly as that
from larger Cummings. Iopen my cream jars
and stir cream frequently and leave exposed to
air, for the reason matt cream takes up OXy-
gen, which affords q finer flavor to the butter.
President Hoard stated that:
One of the secrets Of 'cream shortage was
the effect Of the clturn ON cream. In the sea-
son OF succuleut food the churIt receives its
due proportion OF butter. BY feeding roots,
casilage and s|ucculepb food the churn VIII do
its work with profit. Farmers Who allow their
hay to Tipen TOO much and grow woody are de-
nyingto the clrrn the proper returns its should
receive.
President Hoardt then read a prize essay read
Ey ID. w. G0rtor. at the Wisconsin Dairymen's
association. Tx essay was replete with valu-
able suggestions.
il. b. GuIler, Of De Kalb, Ill, then read a
paper on the COW, tine CALF, and the pig.
These animals naturally so together in dairy
ing. Have raised them in order OF their i'm
portaace in the new parts Of the West IN
Illinois ] would read COW, pig, calf. The COW,
il properly cared for is the most profitable ami
mai on the farm When commenced dairying
my cows would average only $50 pounds of
butter annually. l began TO test milk l
learned that tie cow which produced forty
pounds Of Iaill per day, produced one pound
Of butter per day, that Tho COW giving IS
pounds per day produced more butter than the
COW that gave 40 pounds of milk per day 1
sold of improbable cows and fOuud had