The Dickinson press., 1884-02-23
NORTHWESTERN DAIRYMEN.
Proceedings Of the Convention Of
the Northwestern Dairymen's
Association at Mankato,
Minnesota.
Synopsis Of Addresses and Other r,npor.
tant Information for Farmers.

Ase HAusAC ny Luo DanQ lion. M. j. SevorenCo
Judge of the District Court eloquent,
welcomed the delegates in behalf of Marhato
extending the hospitality of the citizens. W
welcomed them because they sought the appli
cation Of an intelligent system embracing til,
observation of many states, to give a new i'm.
pulso 10 one department of agriculture thu
great foundation stone that lies at the very
base Of all American industries and all cndur:
ing prosperity. When the generous soil OF
America, either from a misconception of it,
capacities, the true method of its development
or climatic catastrophe, refuses to respond tc
the toll OF the %husbandmen, every FURNISHED
spindle must cease to hum; every hammer
must rest cold on its anvil, and the white sails
of commerce will mildew on the shores ot
every ocean.
The secretary, 4. P. McGlincy made an an.
propriate reply. giving statistics showing tlt
Importance of the dangling business. He sale
that a man who owns 100 acres in Minnesota
mas a competence, and a man who fails to sue.
coed on this s probably a spoiled lawyer o,
clergyman. If you want to succeed hold on ia
your young stock. In order to acquire a repu-
tatlon yo.! must improve stock as horse-meu
90. u Minnesota farmers will feed as liberal
improve stock. Two thousand car loads OF
nran and shorts were shipped from Minneapo-
lis last year to feed Illinois cattle. Do busi
ness as carefully rs thinkers and railroad men
40 theirs, and on as careful business princi-
pies, and You will speedily reach success.
Wis, enlivered 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
Drained farmers. The necessity of employing
the MIND as well as the hand in agricultural
was dwelt upon. The speaker then
said; TIL season OF 1883 has proved IL fairly
prosperous one for dairymen. Through tho
extension of the gathered cream system. very
many new communities are brought intS line
and the milk of thousands of cows rescued from
an lsnomlnious 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 fan. They have been fearful all the
M that the business wonld be ovs4done. for
getting. that if every man in the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddenly be-
come a sklllful da!ryman, it would not add one
COW to the present number. Shillful care and
management would no doubt increase the pro-
OF every cow brought under such
an influence. 1t is about time the honest milk
was rescued from the Posram makers
ana Bassom vendors at crossroads,
epa f s}yen q t fs;r s,on profit oil ,rn,+ Of off,. ! the he
it. But there will yet remain ignorance and
enough in the land for a long time
to give Intelligence all the advantage it deserves.
The only phase of the diary business that is
oyer-done. aud 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 a prin-
clple III tins, gentlemen. 1t teaches that our
only salvation lies in upholding and increasing
the standard OF excellence. Common farm but
ter has the same old look, the same smell, the
abused, banged and disheartenela appear
ance that it had twenty wears ago, and it brincs
lDOnC the Same Jrira Sl;;,, ,1,ao.a =. H. -.
ON human digestion that it ever was
mas the same discouragiug effect on consump-
uon and depressing effect on price. 1t points
The same old moral that it ever did. "What
Sod hath joined together let no man put asrn-
The makers of fine goods need have no
fears of tho future.
PRODUCTION FOR 1883.
1t is a curious and instructive fact as shown
by the last census, that the ratio ~ increase in
COWS Is considerably less than tAat of popula-
ION. rms may account in 3 measure for the
act that the demand for dairy products has
Deen Tor q of years greater than the
supply. The same fact affords also q good
providing that bogus compounds are not al
owed to usurp the place of the honest product
u the COW. Left to a natural condition of
allnISs the dalryman need have 10 fears of the
.ack OF a remunerative market in the future.
10 should remember, however, that if he al
oWs hi1nself to be driven from the field, either
through his supinencss, or lack of conformity
the market demand for excellence, he does
not deserve any better fate. In 1850 the State
'f Minnesota contained 275,545 GOV Her in
;lrease, for the ten years previous had been Mt
ne M rate OF II Ito per cent annually. Measured
y .ne same M rate eco OF increase tho state would
owing that the product of each COW was worth
s55, the gross product would reach the sun of
sI5, l44, Sl5. Iowa contained in 1889 S541S7
w Her annual percentage of increase for
ne previous decade had been 10 40 per cent
ms ratio would give the State in 1881, 1SA,ss2
lows, whose earnings at $50 each would reach
ne sum Of $4l ,645,s70. Illinois contained in
-oeo alo,9l3 COWS. The annual percentage of
Increase had been only31-2percent. Appiying
his ratio she would have in 1888 956, ST; cows
whose average earnings would amount to s332...
o9,loo. Wisconsin contained in 1850 ATS, 80
Her annual percentage of increase had
1e s Big per cent, which ratio applied for
leS3 would give her 557, 80. At s335 each their
would represent $40 sos, $50. The
gross earnings of all the COWS of these four
states for 1888, reaches the enoI-
nous sum ofs1C1, So, 72o. by this it can readi-
y be seen, gentlemen, that the interest YOU
has reached a magnitude that calls
[or the very wisest administration. The time
aas come when 80 great an interest should re-
selye all the aid that special education can give.
Euther, 1t should be fostered and protected by
A0 4CS16AuGlOu Vi llGSC E11faH
MISTAKES.
A general survey of the question discloses
~. only mucn tilat encourages us, but also
dlfiicult task to reach a large proportion of the
mix producers of the northwest and get them
20 adopt the standard ideas of the day in dairy
In9; They are not dailymen; they have but
little real pride in the business, and what is
worse, they VIII eXpendneither money nortime
lO loaTn nHtfa1 Not nnn II, n l,,,l = -
patrons OF the cheese factories and creameries
81 the Northwest ever attend o dairy conyen-
non. But very few of them read such papers
as devote especial attention to this subject.
Ihey DO not seem to care whether they succeed
contrasted the methods employed byintellieent
aallymen and those of the unthinking mass.
very serious mistake was the lack of co.
operation. After a tribute to C. C. Fairlamb.
me founder of the gathered cream system, Mr..
hoard closed with thanks to the press for its
regarding the dairymen.
COMMITTEES.
President Hoard appointed the following
Butter and Checse-Hiram Smith, sheboy-
gan Falls, Wis. H. W. Hurtz, Elgin, M. ~.
Mower, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. %
Nominations-D w. Curtis, Fl. Atkinson.
J. B. Vosbury, Richmond, Ill; P. G.
MAJ Independence, Iowa; Z. c. Hunting
Rasai,Nah,a Mill ~ y. n. nose, Mankato.
Wells, MINI. &c Lombard. Chi.
cage, ~ r. G. Judson, Pennington, MINI.
r. Beach, Whitewater, Wis.
Ways and Means-A. ?. McKinstry, Winnie
bago City, Mimi; Lovejoy Johnson, Stillman
valley, u W. s. Green, Milford, Wisconsin.
r., Dairy and Farm Implements-A. d. LIE Land.
Sheboygan Falls, Wis. L NJ Potter, Ele Claire
Use. D; Holmes, O%watonna, Mimi.
I. G. Curtis Of Rocky Run, Wis. read a
paper "a on the subject of "Butter Making by
His farm, twelve years ago, was very much
time, in debt by raising wheat He be.
gun to raise sheep, but did not make the bus
mess q success, and finally was driven into
At first made fair butter and could
axe premiums at home fairs, but when he